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MormonTimes.com: George Durrant's life is full of 'best days'

I love George Durrant's books and talks. I still remember listening to a talk he gave at BYU back in the 1970's. I was a missionary in the LTM in Provo and one of our teachers brought in a recording of his talk, "Number One Christian." I was really touched by the talk and have listened to it many, many times since then. The message is a critical one for all of us: it is not the huge things that we do that make us more like Christ; rather it is the small and simple things like showing love and kindness to every person that make us more like the Savior. I still strive every day to be a number one Christian and to "get off the path" as a simple gesture of love to those I meet. Thank you George for your inspiring words that have lifted me again and again.

A personal favorite is George Durrant's "Don't forget the Star."

George Durrant was Mission President in Tennessee & Kentucky when I joined The Church and moved to Nashville. I came to know him through my activity in The Church. Having admired his family and him, and at a CES seminar at BYU, I looked him up after several years after his mission release. He was teaching Book of Mormon at the time, and his office was in The Joseph Smith Building (I hope all is correctly recalled!). I walked downstairs in the general direction of what I understood to be his office. Rounding a corner, I saw him sitting in his office counseling a student...he looked up (it had been years), saw me, and said, "Trish Lewis, how is everything in Humboldt, Tennessee?!" It was his influence and that of other great individuals in Institute at Vanderbilt (Richard Anthony, now at Logan State) that influenced and nutured the strength of my testimony and gave me a life long desire to share the gift of truth. Truly, George Durrant IS a special person, handsome, and smart, and he has no clue as to how he has touched the lives of countless children of Our Father in Heaven.