What light does the lesson throw …

The two major values that one ought to take away from the story are as follows. Firstly, we should spend more time with our grandparents, keep in touch with them, make them feel loved and wanted, especially in their old age when they cease to be less active. Secondly, a life of dedication and integrity can be lived even without college or university level education as the grandmother demonstrates. The author's grandmother was constantly telling the beads of her rosary and she had been doing so ever since the author could remember. Her lips always moved in an inaudible prayer. She would start her day with a morning prayer uttered in a monotonous sing-song voice and spend the time when the author was in school at the temple, reading the scriptures. Even when she got older and more infirm in her faculties, her lips continued to move in prayer and her mind became lost in it. Her fingers would not stop telling the beads of her rosary. Her piety was a way of life for her. This is a lesson in dedication and perseverance for the younger generation.