Whoso is Found Possessed of It
In his main talk in general conference this past weekend, President Oaks told of an experience that taught him about love. He related how he had an unusual impression to call a certain woman from the audience at a stake conference to speak. He said, “As she came forward, I was apprehensive about what she might say. She introduced herself as a nurse employed to watch over patients in a maximum care facility. Her patients included one she described as ‘the most repulsive man’ she had ever met. (Where was this heading? I asked myself.) From his bedridden position, he did everything he could do to make life miserable for the nurses who were caring for him—including foul language, spitting on the floor, and constantly insulting them in other repulsive ways. She despised him. One evening she heard a loud crash from this man’s room. Responding, she ran to his room and was shocked to find him fallen out of bed and thrashing about in a pool of broken glass, liquid, and blood. In that moment, a...
