Ye Shall Find Rest
I liked the story that Brother David J. Wunderli, first counselor in the Young Men General Presidency, told in the most recent general conference . He told how his six-year-old son received a picture of the Savior that he cherished and kept with him. He related, “One Saturday morning we decided to take a family hike up a nearby canyon. Our six-year-old son carefully placed his picture of Jesus Christ into his backpack. That was it —he packed nothing else. When we stopped for lunch along the trail, he got busy finding small, unique rocks, and soon he had a large pile of them.” His son filled his backpack with rocks and then had a really hard time carrying them. He started to take some of them out, and his dad made the suggestion to take out the picture of Jesus. “That should lighten your load,” he said. Brother Wunderli continued, “I will never forget the hurt look on his face. It seemed to say, ‘Dad, you really want me to take Jesus out of my pack and leave Him behind?’ And then his lo...