A group of friends planned a trip together to a Mediterranean city, a center of deep cultural and architectural history. This city had been built on a sprawling hill that rose out of the sea. Narrow streets ringed the slopes and were connected by side streets running at acute angles like switchbacks so as to reduce their steepness.

On their first full day in the city, the group rented bicycles so they could ride from one historic site to another, making their way to a palace-turned-museum at the summit. Seeing the palace up close and walking its halls would be the highlight of the day.

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Elder Paul V. Johnson tells the story of one of his grandsons who needed a bone marrow transplant to extend his life and of the perfect match for a donor:

“Be Perfected in Him”

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When I was kid, we had a next-door neighbor named Helmut. He was from Germany, and many times I didn’t understand him. But I liked his kind smile and tone. One day, I was playing basketball in the driveway with a friend, and Helmut came past, heading home from a walk. He stopped to watch for a few minutes. I made a basket and called to him, “I’m going to win!” I jumped up and down, my pony tail bouncing.

“Ah, Jeanette,” he answered with a shake of his head, “man soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben.”

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A university student group organized an outing to a ropes course for their members to build confidence and teach teamwork. The course comprised a number of activities designed with varying levels of difficulty so people would have to push themselves to accomplish goals.

One of the challenges consisted of two poles standing twenty yards apart, each with a platform twenty feet off the ground. A steel cable stretched from one to the other above head height. Below hung a net.

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