BY THEIR FRUITS: LDS President Thomas S. Monson

[Grig]

President Thomas S. Monson was named as the 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on February 4, 2008. He had served as a Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church since November 10, 1985. Most recently, on March 12, 1995, he was set apart as First Counselor to President Gordon B. Hinckley. Prior to that, on June 5, 1994, he was called as Second Counselor to President Howard W. Hunter, and on November 10, 1985, as Second Counselor to President Ezra Taft Benson. He was ordained an Apostle and called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on October 4, 1963, at the age of 36.

* Born Salt Lake City, Utah, August 21, 1927, son of G. Spencer and Gladys Condie Monson.

* Attended Salt Lake City public schools

* Married Frances Beverly Johnson on October 7, 1948, in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of three children

* Graduated Cum Laude, University of Utah, 1948, Bachelor in Business Management

* MBA, Brigham Young University

* Member of the College of Business faculty at the University of Utah

* Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa, Brigham Young University, 1981

* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Salt Lake Community College, 1996

* Honorary Doctor of Business, University of Utah, 2007

* Member of Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity

* Joined the United States Navy near the close of World War II, at age 17, with honorable discharge 1946

* Employed by the Deseret News newspaper in 1948, serving as an executive in the advertising division of that newspaper and the Newspaper Agency Corporation

* Named sales manager of the Deseret News Press, one of the West’s largest commercial printing firms, rising to the position of general manager

* Pas Chairman of the Board, Deseret News Publishing Co.

* Past president of Printing Industry of Utah

* Member of the board of directors of the Printing Industry of America

* Member of the National Executive Board of Boy Scouts of America from 1969 to present

* Member, Utah Association of Sales Executives, the Salt Lake Advertising Club, and the Salt Lake Exchange Club

* Former member of the Utah State Board of Regents

* Past officer in the Alumni Association of the University of Utah

* Appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the President’s Task Force for Private Sector Initiatives, 1981 to 1982 (conclusion of the task force)

* Awarded the University of Utah’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1966

* Recipient, Silver Beaver Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1971

* Recipient, Silver Buffalo Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1978

* Recipient, Bronze Wolf Award, World Organization of the Boy Scouts, 1993

* Recipient, Minuteman Award, Utah National Guard, 1998

* Recipient with his wife of the Continuum of Caring Humanitarian Award by the Catholic Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph Villa, 1998

[Old Mountain man]

A good and faithful servant.

[JRochelle]

Fruit? I don’t think name calling is helpful.

[fishtank]

Does he not know about certain things that have ever been taught?

[colorcountry]

My goodness! What a wonderful man.....why, he almost sounds like an angel of light!

2 Corinthians 11:12-15

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“All our righteous acts are like filthy rags”

(Isaiah 64:6)

By worldly standards, a good guy.

Yet he upholds the heresy of mormonism.

[FastCoyote]

Well, how long do you think it will take to get to Ward janitor?

Is this in the Religion section because he is an Apostle?

[Colofornian]

* Pas Chairman of the Board, Deseret News Publishing Co.

Ah, yes. That's what we want. Mainstream Media's top leaders serving as "prophets" of churches! /end sarc

[SkyPilot]

Tonight, we grilled some amazing Italian sausage, with red peppers and red onion. I prefer red onion to Spanish onion because of its sweet flavor. I also made potatoes with rosemary, sweet corn (summer time you know). For dessert, I copied a recipe from Richard Blaise on Bravo's "Top Chef" and made a banana "scallop" where you cut the banana, dredge the top and bottom in brown sugar (I added cinnamon as well) and sear the banana on both sides. I served it with homemade vanilla ice cream and a chocolate sauce, and a sprig of mint from our garden.

Hope my response doesn't get pulled because it is too honest.

Thanks for the opportunity!

[greyfoxx39]

How was the banana scallop? I wondered, since Richard used it twice in the contest.

[SkyPilot]

How was the banana scallop? I wondered, since Richard used it twice in the contest.

Richard actually used it THREE times in the competition.

I'll tell you in private how it was. I don't want to be accused of "hijaking" the thread.

[Tennessee Nana]

Sounds like food for the soul..

:)

[SkyPilot]

Based on the ambivalence and apathy of this thread, perhaps you should post 27 more to try and persuade people to join your cult?

[JRochelle]

I love that show!

I was cheering for Richard but in the end I am glad Stephanie won. He knew he didn’t cook his best meal for the final.

And don’t get me started on Lisa! I can’t think of a single nice thing to say about that woman/man.

I don’t like talking about that show on this thread, I am really of topic here, so next season lets have a weekly Top Chef thread, Live!

[Gamecock]

I’m sure he would make a wonderful next door neighbor.

[Colofornian]

...I prefer red onion to Spanish onion...

Is this "gang code"--ya know--like "gang signals" for a preference for monogamy versus polygamy since once a time LDS plural marriages were conducted in Juarez, Mexico? (Come on now, Sky, come clean)

...I copied a recipe from...

Are you insinuating that certain "prophets" have "copied" anything from second-hand sources--sources other than God himself? Somehow, I just get a feelin' that you're communicatin' in unreformed E-gibberish.