Tabernacle Choir: 'proudest achievements'

SALT LAKE CITY — Singer and songwriter Natalie Cole and acclaimed author and historian David McCullough appeared with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in its Sunday morning broadcast of "Music and the Spoken Word" on Dec. 13.

In a mini-concert after the broadcast, Cole sang and did a presentation of "The Christmas Story," as recorded in the second chapter of Luke.

McCullough presented a reading, "American Christmas Memories," which he had presented also during the three concerts.

President Thomas S. Monson, who was in the audience, joined the guests onstage after the mini-concert. He told them that the five most important words in the English language are, "I am proud of you." The two most important words, he said, are "Thank you."

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