Danny came to see us yesterday evening.  Ivy was here, too.  Marjorie and I had a wonderful time as we sat around the dining room table and visited with our kids.

I have written and compiled quite a number of books for my family.  One series is entitled, Danny's Books.  Danny told us what got me started on my book projects.  I hadn't heard this before.

Danny was on his mission in Arizona in 2004.  He realized that he needed to put together a “power lesson” to have available to share with his investigators when they reached a point where they needed to feel the Spirit.  He wrote to me asking for copies of the stories he'd grown up hearing in our daily family devotionals.

I remember that request, but I never knew about his “power lesson.”  As I think back over these two intervening decades, I believe his request was the catalyst that got me started on the project that has resulted in the collection of two dozen books that now lines the shelves at my house and at the houses of each of our 10 children.

Danny's first request was for three specific stories that came from my own experience.  He said that he and I were up the hill visiting my aged, widowed father.  Dad asked me something about the Church.  Danny says that I told him these stories, and that Dad cried.

I replied to Danny that maybe his “power lesson” is just what my friend, Anna needs.  The missionaries and I have been visiting Anna twice a week for over six months now.  I'm putting these stories together for Anna.  I'll read them to her today.

I'm possibly putting these stories together for another reason, as well.  Ivy and Danny were insistent that my stories need to be shared on social media.  “The General Authorities post things on social media, Dad, and so should you.”

I've not once been on Facebook, Instagram, or anyplace else.  I don't know how to get there, and social media scares me.  However, if one of my kids thinks that it's important enough for me to do this, if they set up a site, I'll make a daily posting.  I have written over a thousand articles, so that would be enough to keep things going for several years.

Our dinner table conversation was playing over and over in my mind when I had to get up at midnight to write this.  Danny says that a “power lesson” has to involve service to others, and that these stories awaken similar memories in everyone.  A “power lesson” should make you cry as you remember being the answer to someone's prayer when you were used by the Holy Ghost to do something for someone.

So for Anna, Danny, Ivy, and whoever else wants to tune in, here is Danny's “power lesson.”  Perhaps this is my first social media posting, as well.  (These three stories come from Stories for My Grandchildren.)