Pres Monson Talk Given 1 Nov 2011 at BYU (only a small part of the talk is presented here. It is part of a paraphrased version from Deseret News).

President Monson told of a letter he received from a Catholic woman who commended the compassionate service two Latter-day Saint men gave her brother-in-law, Tom Brown, who was not a Latter-day Saint and had terminal cancer. The woman wrote that she used to indulge in "Mormon bashing," but after having seen how Church members treated her family, she not only would never again criticize the LDS faith but would not allow it to be criticized in front of her."

President Monson said, "Our opportunities to shine are limitless. They surround us each day, in whatever circumstance we find ourselves. As we follow the example of the Savior, ours will be the opportunity to be a light, as it were, in the lives of those around us — whether they be our own family members, our coworkers, mere acquaintances or total strangers."

He said when he presided over the Canadian Mission one of the missionaries became seriously ill and was hospitalized. The evening before the missionary was to be operated on, President Monson and the missionary's father gave him a blessing.

The five other men in the hospital ward, impressed with what the missionary had taught them during his hospitalization, fasted on the morning of the surgery. Despite serious chances that the missionary would not be able to endure the surgery, everything went well.

The surgeon, who performed the operation, refused payment, saying, "'It would be dishonest for me to accept a fee. I have never before performed surgery when my hands seemed to be guided by a power which was other than my own.
No, I wouldn't take a fee for the surgery which Someone on high helped me perform.'"

President Monson quoted from the "Lion King," in which Mufasa, the spirit of Simba's departed father, tells him, "Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become….Remember who you are….Remember."