Latter-day Grooks - Vol. 1
From the Words and Wisdom of Russell M. Nelson

Praise for Latter-day Grooks:

"They're beautiful. Brevity + profundity = impact!"
Richard N.

"It is amazing! My husband and I teach Sunday School...we are choosing one per lesson for [students] to take away."
Karen O.
 
"Loved these grooks...Very inspiring!"
Gina S.

In this volume, the author has attempted to cite the words and teachings of President Russell M. Nelson, prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to express his ideas in the form of latter-day grooks. 

Latter-day Grooks - Vol. 2
From the Words and Wisdom of Jeffrey R. Holland
Piet Hein was confronted with a dilemma when the Germans first occupied Denmark. He felt he had three choices; do nothing, flee to neutral Sweden, or join the Danish resistance movement. So, he joined the Resistance. Hein’s greatest weapon was his pen. His grooks were meant to be a spirit-building, coded form of passive resistance. The grooks are multi-faceted and characterized by irony, paradox, brevity, precise use of language, rhythm, and rhyme. They were often satiric in nature.
 
Author and award-winning poet, Bill Wylson, believes “the Latter-day Saints are in a type of resistance movement of our own. We are fighting the forces of evil and resisting the temptations of Satan and the world. It would be tragic indeed if we lost our faith in a moment of crisis and threw away the blessings of eternity promised to the faithful. Faith in Jesus Christ will always be rewarded.” 

In this volume, the author has attempted to cite the words and teachings of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to express his ideas in the form of latter-day grooks. 

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The Greatest Thing in the World
The Restored Gospel Version

​From Henry Drummond (and Bill Wylson)

You have life before you. You live only once. What, then, is the noblest object of desire? What is the supreme gift to covet?
In the Book of Matthew, where the Judgment Day is depicted for us in the imagery of One seated upon a throne and dividing the sheep from the goats, the test of humanity is not, “How have I believed?” but “How have I loved?” The test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but love.
“The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of theology, but of life, not of churches and saints but of the hungry and the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, not of Bibles and prayerbooks but of cups of cold water offered in the name of Christ.”

A New Earth
The Controversial Book by Bill Wylson

Over the past 200–300 years climate change has been documented using instrumental records and other archives. Some written documents and other recordings make information available about climate change in certain localities for the past several hundred years. Certain chronicles indicating climate change have been identified dating back over 1,000 years, although these are very rare. The only real question concerning climate change is: What can we do about it? I have heard all kinds of solutions, from the bizarre to the ridiculous. One suggestion to reduce global warming is for us to stop ironing our clothes. 
Other suggestions include painting our rooftops white to reduce absorption of heat; making highways white with black stripes instead of black with white stripes; becoming vegan, thereby reducing the need for herds of animals that emit methane gases into the atmosphere; not idling our vehicles for more than two minutes; and turning our thermostats to 68 degrees (F).
Other suggestions have been to create a giant umbrella that could block two to four percent of the sun’s rays and launch it into space; creating plastic trees that could absorb carbon dioxide; eating insects instead of meat; bio-engineering future humans to be smaller, smarter and with an intolerance to red meat; mass female sterilization; and, of course, we can’t forget the suggestion from NASA scientists to move the earth farther away from the sun.
Through all of this we are missing the one solution that could actually make a difference. ​

Other Books by Bill Wylson

Elder Hammond and 
The Inspector
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They say that God works in mysterious ways, which is just another way of saying, “I don’t understand what God is up to.” In my brief and puerile twenty-one years on this planet, I have seen some of the mysterious ways of God and the resultant miracles that follow, but whatever God was up to in the small town of Villa Mercedes, it was definitely a mystery to all of us. ​

Give Place in Your Heart
31 Promises from the Book of Mormon
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Hieroglyphs, Golden Plates & Typos
How Corrections in the Book of Mormon Prove its Authenticity
​All of us are familiar with Moroni’s promise that Christ will manifest the truth of the Book of Mormon to us by the power of the Holy Ghost. This is just one of many promises the Lord has made regarding the Book of Mormon. In this volume, Bill Wylson outlines 31 promises, with their attendant blessings and conditions.​

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On the inside cover of his first Book of Mormon my father had written the following quote from Joseph Smith: "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth."
Directly below this he had complied a list of scriptures labeled: "Mistakes in the Book of Mormon". These 'corrections' actually testify to its truthfulness and authenticity.​

Three Minutes Eighteen Seconds
A Prophet's Final Message to the World
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Tres Minutos con Dieciocho Secundos
El Ultimo Mensaje del Profeta al Mundo
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The Manger on the Mantle
A Christmas Tale Based on Two True Stories
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Words are extremely powerful. Lord Byron poetically portrays this truth: "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." 
Three Minutes Eighteen Seconds examines three “small drops of ink” that are, simultaneously, extremely powerful words spoken by President Thomas S. Monson in the April 2017 General Conference.
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Las palabras son muy poderosas. Como explica el poeta Lord Byron: "Pero palabras son cosas, y una pequeña gota de tinta, Cayendo como rocio sobre un pensamiento, produce lo que causa a miles, quizás millones, a pensar."
Tres Minutos con Dieciocho Segundos examina tres "pequeñas gotas de tinta" dichas por el Presidente Thomas S. Monson en la Conferencia General de Abril 2017, que son, a la vez, palabras extremadamente poderosas.
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Mark Spencer, a man raised with an idyllic small town childhood becomes very lost in the massive city of Los Angeles. The problem is he didn't become geographically lost; he became spiritually lost. That's when Mark meets a Marvin, a sockless, root-beer-float toting ex-hippie. Together they journey the road to Bethlehem as they ponder the birth that took place in a lowly manger. A beautiful story of hope and redemption and the joyous possibility of second chances.​​