Happy Birthday Jenny & Cynthia, and Happy Father's Day !

For those of you who do not get the Church News, there was a sweet story I want to share with you. President Monson and Elder Nelson were in Curitiba, Brazil for the new Temple dedication. To get the dedication underway, President Monson presided over and conducted the symbolic sealing of the cornerstone. After the General Authorities and their wives participated, President Monson looked around and saw a group of children who had been invited to stand on the platform erected for the ceremony. Among them was a 6 year-old, Lincoln Vieira Corderio, who appeared to be very cold; he was wearing a winter coat and a hat with flaps that covered his ears. President Monson invited him to place some mortar on the cornorstone. Lincoln's hat was removed so that his face could be seen in photos and video footage recording the historic event. His head had no hair. President Monson guided Lincoln in placing the mortar around the cornerstone and then invited several people to participate. Then he announced it was time to conclude that part of the ceremony. However, he paused, looked around the crowd of onlookers and said that there was someone else who needed to be called upon. He walked around the platform. He looked to his left, and said he wondered who that person might be. He turned to his right. Several people stood on the ground between him and a choir that performed at the outside ceremony. He kept looking saying he knew that there was one particular person who ought to be invited to place mortar on the stone. Finally his eyes rested upon a woman. He pointed to her, and invited her to come join the ceremony. Later President Monson was told that the woman whom he had never met was Odilene Cordeiro, Lincoln's mother. "Of all the people he could have called upon to participate, it was that boy's mother," said Elder Nelson. "That said to me that Heavenly Father is communicating to his prophet and that President Monson is responding. That was not just Thomas S. Monson standing there. That was the prophet responding to a revelation as it flowed from heaven through him to bless that mother who has gone through so much in caring for her son who is so sick. President Monson had no way of knowing who that woman was, or that the little boy he called upon has cancer. But the Lord knew."