Elder Holland Shares the Powerful Rebuke He Received While with His Dying Father on Christmas Morning
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, excerpted from "Shepherds, Why This Jubilee?" - The following is excerpted from Shepherds, Why This Jubilee? On the evening of December 23, 1976, my father underwent surgery to relieve the effect of osteoarthritis in the vertebrae of his back. The surgery was successful, but near the conclusion of it he suffered a major heart attack. Eight hours later he suffered another one. From those two attacks he sustained massive damage to a heart that was already defective from an illness suffered in his youth. By the time we finally got to see him, wired and tubed and gray and unconscious, it was mid-morning on December 24, Christmas Eve....
