961.The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning! Pres. Russell M. Nelson, and special family stories about that beloved hymn!
The visiting General Authority for our Stake Conference tonight and tomorrow is President Russell M. Nelson, the President of the Quorum ot Twelve Apostles. We all are so thrilled with that, and I will take good notes, and put them on this blog in a day or two. He follows President Thomas S. Monson in Priesthood seniority. I just returned from sitting quietly in the back of our Stake Center building, and listening to the men's chorus practice "The Spirit Of God", which they will sing in the Priesthood Leadership Meeting going on there right now! My oldest son Wayne was playing the piano accompanying them. He had been asked, and as his specialty is the accordion, the right hand on the piano came easily. But the left had he had to practice a lot. I gave him a few ideas on how to turn pages (it was a long song) -- to keep one hand playing while the other hand turned the page, etc. plan which note is at the front of the next page, etc....