Within the sound of my voice are many young women, young men, and children. I plead with you to be worthy, to be steadfast, and to look forward with great anticipation to the day you will receive the ordinances and blessings of the temple.
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
A spiritual ‘spurter’ is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
What we know is not always reflected in what we do.
The Lord’s truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.
We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.
Inspired questions will bring about inspired answers. Seek for the companionship of the Holy Ghost as you prepare.
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.
Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.
I witness the reality and divinity of our Eternal Father, of His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost. I testify that our Father hears and answers our prayers. May each of us strive with greater resolve to ask in faith and thereby make our prayers truly meaningful.
Christ lives and will cleanse, heal, guide, protect and strengthen us.
The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.
The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in the Resurrection and eternal life. Such faith and hope invite into our lives the sweet peace of conscience for which we all yearn.
The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught.
Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.
Remember that becoming people of integrity and honesty is not simply a matter of more personal determination, more grit, and more willpower; rather, it is accomplished through the enabling power of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.