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Yesterday, one of the best human beings on the planet quietly passed away, ending the mortal period of a life entirely devoted to service, love and hard work. President Gordon B. Hinckley was a model to me, an example, a shining beacon in a world of confusion and immorality. His words always filled me with peace, courage, faith and strength.

A while ago I managed to put the entire Standard Works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints into a DB schema of my creation, in a MySQL database. This was very labour-intensive, although I was able to find a text-based version of these scriptures and convert it into one large table.

Today at Church I was listening to a friend reading from a talk by Elder Stephen E. Snow on the topic of service. The story about the cancer-ridden, dying mother, whose last words were “I wish I had served more […] I could have done more”, really touched me.