Friend to Friend
, From an interview with Elder John H. Groberg of the Seventy, currently serving in the Utah North Area Presidency; by Kellene Ricks Adams
📅 May 1999
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Summary: One Christmas, an aunt gave the author an illustrated Old Testament book. On a cold, windy night he couldn’t sleep, so he curled up by a heat vent and read for hours, becoming entranced by the stories. This experience sparked a lasting love for the scriptures.
Some things I learned by what I did, rather than from someone else’s actions. One Christmas a favorite aunt gave me a book of illustrated stories from the Old Testament. Outside, the weather was cold and the wind was howling. I couldn’t sleep. I waited until everybody else was asleep so that I wouldn’t disturb them, then gathered up my blanket and settled down near the forced-air heat vent and read that book for hours at a time. Before that I hadn’t been much of a reader, but I was entranced by that book. I really developed a love for the scriptures at that young age.
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