"Behold Your Little Ones"
President Michaelene P. Grassli
- Primary General President
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A young Latter-day Saint mother in Russia feels compelled to help teach children at church due to the lack of experience in the small branch, eventually becoming the district Primary president.
A young Latter-day Saint mother from Alaska, living in Russia temporarily, visited the home of a member family with two small sons. She learned that the children read and love the scriptures and hunger to know more. Then she attended the small branch and found that because the Church is so new there, they had no experience in teaching the children at church on Sunday.
She said, "Knowing what the children were missing, I had an overwhelming feeling that I should help." And she added, "I felt I ... (continued)
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"Behold Your Little Ones"
President Michaelene P. Grassli
- Primary General President
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A former Primary teacher receives an invitation to a temple wedding from a young man she taught, who credits her teachings for his worthiness.
A friend of mine received an invitation to the temple wedding of a young man she had taught in Primary. When she responded to the invitation, she asked, "David, you moved away, and I haven"™t seen you for years. Why did you think of me?"
"Sister McMullin," he said, "you taught us about being clean and worthy to receive the priesthood. You taught us about scrubbing our hands and wearing clean clothes when we would pass the sacrament. You taught us about being clean inside too. When I was fa ... (continued)
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"Behold Your Little Ones"
Elder Wm. Rolfe Kerr
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts the story of Jesus Christ visiting the inhabitants of ancient America after His Resurrection, focusing on His interaction with the children and His prayers for them.
Following His Crucifixion and Resurrection, Jesus Christ visited, taught, and blessed the righteous inhabitants of ancient America. The Book of Mormon records those glorious events and stands as another testament of the divinity of Jesus Christ and of the reality of His Resurrection. As the Savior taught and blessed those faithful people, He invited them to bring their little children to Him and to set them round about Him. He then knelt and prayed with words so marvelous and great they could no ... (continued)
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"Behold Your Little Ones"
Elder Wm. Rolfe Kerr
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker reflects on the Savior's example of individual care and attention, suggesting that everyone, including children, the wayward, and the grieving, should be treated with love and tenderness.
When the Savior invited the multitude to behold their little ones, was He speaking in the collective sense of a group of little children? Or was He drawing their attention, and ours, to the individual nature and importance of each of those littleones"”each of those little individuals? I believe that by His example the Savior was teaching us of the individual and tender care we should give to each one of our little children"”indeed to each of our Heavenly Father"™s children. It may be the l ... (continued)
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"Behold Your Little Ones"
Elder Wm. Rolfe Kerr
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker tells the story of the prophet Lehi exhorting his sons with the feeling of a tender parent, and how this reflects the Savior's way of caring for each individual.
The prophet Lehi exhorted his wayward sons, Laman and Lemuel, with "all the feeling of a tender parent"1 Ne. 8:37This is the Savior"™s way. This is as it should be in our families and in the Church. Moroni was telling us this when he said of those received into the Church by baptism, "They were numbered among the people of the church of Christ; and their names were taken, that they might be remembered and nourished by the good word of God"Moro. 6:4Remembered and nourished, one by one, name ... (continued)
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"Behold Your Little Ones"
Elder Wm. Rolfe Kerr
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts the parable of the lost sheep, emphasizing the importance of seeking out and saving the one, which is the objective of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Savior taught us this principle in the parable of the lost sheep. As the shepherd left the ninety and nine and searched until the lost sheep was found, so also are we to go after him who is lost and continue the search until he is found. (SeeMatt. 18:12"“14And once found, our work is not done until we bring him safely home, rejoicing. This is the objective of the gospel of Jesus Christ and must be the objective of all the programs and activities of the Church"”to bring the children of ou ... (continued)
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"Behold Your Little Ones"
Elder Wm. Rolfe Kerr
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker discusses Jesus Christ's solitary role in the Atonement, highlighting His feelings of abandonment and the necessity of His unique sacrifice.
While the Savior taught us the importance of the one, He also taught us of the power of one. He showed us the power and influence He alone possessed as our Savior, Redeemer, and Judge. He was alone in Gethsemane when He offered Himself as the sacred offering in that great atoning sacrifice"”a sacrifice which He sealed at Golgotha with His freely given life. Feeling alone there, His painful utterance "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"Matt. 27:46teaches us that, while the Father was ... (continued)
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"Behold Your Little Ones"
Elder Wm. Rolfe Kerr
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker tells the story of Sarah Ann Meeks, a woman who was disowned by her father for joining the Church, and how her faithful decision led to a legacy of hundreds of Latter-day Saints.
The power and influence one person can have is enormous. It was one Sarah Ann Meeks who paid what seemed to be her ultimate sacrifice as she stood alone on the doorstep of her home in far-off England nearly a century and a half ago. Her father met her there with a small bundle containing a few of her belongings and with these words, "You join that church and you must never set foot in my home again." Unfortunately that was the last she saw of her family. Alone? Very much alone! She could have ... (continued)
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"Behold! I Am a God of Miracles"
By Elder Ronald A. Rasband
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker recounts a miracle where, after a power outage threatened a worldwide broadcast from Goshen, Utah, they prayed for a miracle and the power was restored just in time for the event.
Last fall Sister Rasband and I were on our way to Goshen, Utah, for a worldwide Face to Face event being broadcast to over 600,000 people in 16 different languages. The program was to focus on the events of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with questions submitted by young adults from around the world. Initially the broadcast was to originate in the Sacred Grove in upstate New York, where, as Joseph Smith testified: "I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all descrip ... (continued)
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"Behold, the Lord Hath Shown unto Me Great and Marvelous Things"
Elder L. Tom Perry
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Brigham Young advised to read the scriptures as if we were the ones writing them, to be as familiar with their spirit and meaning as with our daily life.
Brigham Young once counseled us to use the scriptures as follows:
"Do you read the scriptures, my brethren and sisters, as though you were writing them a thousand, two thousand, or five thousand years ago? Do you read them as though you stood in the place of the men who wrote them? If you do not feel thus, it is your privilege to do so, that you may be as familiar with the spirit and meaning of the written word of God as you are with your daily walk and conversation." (Discourses of Brigham Yo ... (continued)
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"Behold, the Lord Hath Shown unto Me Great and Marvelous Things"
Elder L. Tom Perry
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Moroni, feeling alone after the destruction of his people, focused on completing the record entrusted to him, believing it would be a warning to future generations.
The Book of Mormon has many special accounts with lessons which can be applied to all ages. It is a book of great passion and feeling. Let us take Brigham Young"™s advice and imagine we are standing in the place where Moroni, the last of the great Nephite prophets, stood. The assignment his father gave to him to complete the record, which was entrusted to his care, was very difficult. He must have been in a state of shock as he describes the total destruction of his people.
He must have felt c ... (continued)
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"Behold, the Lord Hath Shown unto Me Great and Marvelous Things"
Elder L. Tom Perry
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Articles in the news and business press have praised Utah for its success and high standards, attributing much of this to the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Several recent articles in the news and business press have reported on the success of Utah, the place where we still have the greatest concentration of members of the Church. They emphasize that "we are here a repository of old-fashioned values, an American success story." (New York Times,15 Sept. 1991, p. 1.)
One article reported, "If religion, as Karl Marx once wrote, is "˜the opium of the people,"™ in Utah it is the amphetamine. Thanks largely to the influence of the Church of Jesus Chr ... (continued)
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"Behold, the Lord Hath Shown unto Me Great and Marvelous Things"
Elder L. Tom Perry
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Despite the favorable attention Utah and the Church have received, many members are seen pursuing worldly interests, which is contrary to the teachings of the prophets.
How I wish I could feel comfortable with all this special attention we are receiving. In the midst of this favorable publicity, we see so many members seeking worldly pursuits contrary to the words of the Lord"™s prophets through the ages.
Many of us are more concerned about our fine apparel, the size of our homes, and our cars and their gadgets than we are about the needs of the poor and the needy. We also have seen the threat of legalized abortion, gambling, pornography, and challenges to pu ... (continued)
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"Behold, the Lord Hath Shown unto Me Great and Marvelous Things"
Elder L. Tom Perry
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Moroni, after warning believers, pleads with unbelievers to turn to the Lord and seek redemption through Jesus Christ to be found spotless at the final judgment.
Part of what Moroni was feeling should also be translated into a renewed desire to do missionary service. Moroni also witnessed the wickedness and destruction which comes from unbelief, when men"™s and women"™s souls are not anchored to the teachings of the gospel. After warning the believers, he pleads with the unbelievers. Again we read:
"And now, I speak also concerning those who do not believe in Christ.
"Behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation"”behold, when the Lord shal ... (continued)
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"Behold, We Count Them Happy Which Endure"
Elder Robert D. Hales
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Jesus Christ felt abandoned on the cross but endured to complete His mission of the Atonement.
Our greatest example comes from the life of our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ. When suffering upon the cross at Calvary, Jesus felt the loneliness of agency when He pled to His Father in Heaven, 'Why hast thou forsaken me?' The Savior of the world was left alone by His Father to experience, of His own free will and choice, an act of agency which allowed Him to complete His mission of the Atonement.
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"Behold, We Count Them Happy Which Endure"
Elder Robert D. Hales
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Joseph Smith faced severe trials, including imprisonment, but continued to carry out God's will.
In our dispensation, the Prophet Joseph Smith endured all manner of opposition and hardship to bring to pass the desire of our Heavenly Father—the restoration of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joseph was harassed and hunted by angry mobs. He patiently endured poverty, humiliating charges, and unkind acts. His people were forcibly driven from town to town, from state to state. He was tarred and feathered. He was falsely charged and jailed. Imprisoned at Liberty, Missouri, ... (continued)
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"Behold, We Count Them Happy Which Endure"
Elder Robert D. Hales
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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A young woman learned her strength and resilience while recovering from severe head injuries after an automobile accident.
One young woman wrote about the lessons she has learned in her struggle to recover from an automobile accident in which she received severe head injuries. 'I didn’t know how strong I was until the spring of 1996. The incidents of one afternoon completely changed my expectations of how my education would proceed. One minute I was on a path to my future, much like every other high school student. The next minute life was no longer ordinary for me. I was on my way to strengthening myself in ... (continued)
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"Behold, We Count Them Happy Which Endure"
Elder Robert D. Hales
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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John Stephen Akhwari, a marathon runner from Tanzania, finished a race despite injuries, exemplifying endurance.
In 1968 a marathon runner by the name of John Stephen Akhwari represented Tanzania in an international competition. 'A little over an hour after [the winner] had crossed the finish line, John Stephen Akhwari ... approached the stadium, the last man to complete the journey. [Though suffering from fatigue, leg cramps, dehydration, and disorientation,] a voice called from within to go on, and so he went on. Afterwards, it was written, ‘Today we have seen a young African runner who symbolizes ... (continued)
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"Believest Thou the Prophets?"
Elder Alma Sonne
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker recalls a welfare meeting where President Clark, a part-time farmer, made observations after experts gave talks on managing welfare farms.
This morning at 7:30 in the Assembly Hall we held a welfare meeting. We heard something about cattle, beef cattle, and dairy cattle, and how to manage farms, especially the welfare farms. This instruction was given by experts from the Utah State Agricultural College. When they had given their talks, President Clark made some observations. President Clark, you may know, is a farmer and a cattleman in his own right—if he can qualify for that distinction, by working two or three hours on Sat ... (continued)
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"Believest Thou the Prophets?"
Elder Alma Sonne
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker recounts the funeral service of Brother Hyrum Nebeker, a cattleman, where the congregation sang 'We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet' with great feeling.
It reminded me of the funeral service which was held up in the Bear Lake country for Brother Hyrum Nebeker, also a cattleman. Prior to his death he had selected the hymns he wanted sung at the service. Among them was the well-known hymn we sing so frequently, 'We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet.' He also requested that everyone in the gathering join in singing this hymn, not only the choir, but those also who sat on the front seats, and the entire congregation. Seldom does one hear a song sung ... (continued)
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