Witnesses
Elder Loren C. Dunn
- Of the Seventy
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Wilford Woodruff testifies of Joseph Smith's role as a prophet, seer, and revelator, and his delivery of the keys of the kingdom to the Twelve Apostles.
Said Wilford Woodruff from this Tabernacle: "Joseph Smith was what he professed to be, a prophet of God, a seer and revelator. He "¦ lived long enough to deliver the keys of the kingdom "¦ unto the Twelve Apostles. "¦ The foundation that he laid we have built upon" (inJournal of Discourses,13:164).
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Elder Loren C. Dunn
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker recalls feeling the spirit while listening to LeGrand Richards at a stake conference as a young boy, which deepened his gospel roots.
I was just a young boy when I sat in a stake conference in the Tooele Utah Stake, listening carefully to the visitor. He was LeGrand Richards, and he preached the gospel in his warm and spiritual way. That positive experience has stayed with me. I don"™t remember what he said, but I do know how I felt as he spoke. I learned later that I felt that way because I was listening to a special witness of Jesus Christ. I knew he knew, and somehow my roots grew deeper that day as to truths of the gospe ... (continued)
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Elder Loren C. Dunn
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker references the experiences of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, who declared they saw an angel and the engravings on the plates.
The Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris, stated, "And we declare with words of soberness, that an angel of God came down from heaven, and he brought and laid before our eyes, that we beheld and saw the plates, and the engravings thereon; and we know that it is by the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, that we beheld and bear record that these things are true""The Testimony of Three Witnesses," Book of Mormon
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Elder Loren C. Dunn
- Of the Seventy
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David O. McKay testifies that the Father and the Son appeared to Joseph Smith and revealed the Gospel through him, emphasizing principles of Godhood, Brotherhood, and Service.
And said David O. McKay, whose life reached from some of those who began this work to some of us serving today and who were called by him: "I have an abiding testimony that the Father and the Son appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith, and revealed through him the Gospel of Jesus Christ. "¦ Godhood, Brotherhood, Service"”these three guiding principles in the Christ[like] life permeate all our Church activity" (Testimonies of the Divinity of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by I ... (continued)
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Elder Loren C. Dunn
- Of the Seventy
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Gordon B. Hinckley shares his testimony of Jesus Christ as his Savior and Redeemer, and his belief in the potential for exaltation and eternal life through Christ's atonement.
And from our living Prophet-President, Gordon B. Hinckley: "I have a testimony of the living reality of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, my Savior, and my Redeemer, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the Messiah of the New Testament. "¦ Because of His atoning sacrifice "¦ each of us, if we will walk in obedience to His truths, may go on to exaltation and an eternal life beyond our ability at this stage to understand or comprehend. He is my Redeemer, my Lord, my Savior, my King, my friend" (Vacav ... (continued)
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Elder Loren C. Dunn
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker adds his own witness to the truthfulness of the work of the Church, testifying of God, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, and Gordon B. Hinckley as a prophet.
And to that witness I would add my own witness as to the truthfulness of this work. I know that we have a God in heaven who looks after us and is watching over us. I know God lives. I know he lives. I know God lives. I know this. I know this. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and our Redeemer. I know that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God. I know that Gordon B. Hinckley is a prophet of God today and that this is the gospel of Jesus Christ. May the Lord so bless us that we may listen to ... (continued)
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Witnesses for God
Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker recounts a conversation with a man on a trip who was not a member of the Church but whose wife was. He was exasperated by the persistent visits from home and visiting teachers despite his wife's lack of interest in the Church.
I saw again the power of keeping covenants through a chance conversation with a man I sat down next to on a trip. I had never met him before, but apparently he had seen me in the crowd because his first words after I introduced myself were, "I"™ve been watching you." He told me about his work. I told him about mine. He asked about my family, and then he told me something about his. He said that his wife was a member of the Church and that he was not.
After he came to trust me, he said someth ... (continued)
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Witnesses for God
Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker describes how the commitment of home and visiting teachers to continue visiting the man and his wife is rooted in their covenant with God, as described in the Book of Mormon.
I think I understood his feelings. And then I tried, as best I could, to tell him how hard it would be to teach such teachers to quit. I told him that the love that he had felt from those many visitors and their constancy over the years in the face of little response came from a covenant they had made with God. I told him about the baptismal covenant as Alma described it in the Book of Mormon. I didn"™t quote these words, but you will remember them as Alma asked those he had taught whether the ... (continued)
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Witnesses for God
Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker reflects on the importance of home and visiting teaching, seeing them not as mere Church programs but as opportunities to fulfill covenants made at baptism to witness for God and perform acts of kindness.
As we parted, I realized that I had learned something too. I will never again see home teaching or visiting teaching as only programs of the Church. Those faithful teachers saw what they were doing for what it really was. Such work is an opportunity, not a burden. Every member has made the covenant in the waters of baptism to be a witness for God. Every member has made a covenant to do works of kindness as the Savior would do. So any call to bear witness and to care for others is not a request f ... (continued)
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Witnesses for God
Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker highlights the role of family time, including Sunday meetings and family home evenings, as opportunities to fulfill covenants by providing Christlike service, teaching the gospel, and bearing testimony, as encouraged by prophets like Spencer W. Kimball.
The power of that covenant to love and to witness should transform what members do in other settings across the world. One of the most important is in the family. Prophets in our time have consolidated our meetings on Sunday to allow time for families to be together. The prophets have also been inspired to help us reserve Monday night for family home evenings. Those opportunities require choices. In thousands of homes the choices made are guided by the covenant to comfort those that stand in nee ... (continued)
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Witnesses for God
Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker offers a caution and a promise regarding the use of family time for members of the Church, emphasizing the importance of fulfilling covenants within the home and the blessings that come from doing so.
There is a caution I would give and a promise I would offer about such choices of how to use family time. For a person not yet a member of the Church, to fail to provide such moments of love and faith is simply a lost opportunity. But for those under covenant, it is much more. There are few places where the covenant to love and to bear witness is more easily kept than in the home. And there are few places where it can matter more for those for whom we are accountable. For members of the Church, ... (continued)
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Witnesses for God
Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker narrates the story of Ammon and King Lamoni from the Book of Mormon, illustrating the power of combining kindness with bearing witness to change lives.
There is another circumstance in which the covenant to combine kindness with bearing witness has great power to change lives. Thousands of times every day members of the Church are watched, as I was by the man I met on a trip, by people curious to know something about our lives. Because we are under covenant to be a witness, we will try to tell them how the gospel has brought us happiness. What they think of what we say may depend largely on how much they sense we care for them.
That was true wh ... (continued)
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Witnesses for God
Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker provides a caution and promises regarding sharing the gospel with others, emphasizing the importance of sincerity and the ultimate gratitude that will come from those who receive the message.
Again I have a caution and a promise. The caution is that sorrow will come from failure either to love or to bear witness. If we fail to feel and show honest concern for those we approach with the gospel, they will reasonably distrust our message. But if out of fear of rejection we fail to tell them what the gospel has meant in our lives and could mean in theirs, we will someday share their sorrow. Either in this life or in the life to come, they will know that we failed to share with them the p ... (continued)
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Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker discusses the significance of fast and testimony meetings in the Church, where members fast, donate to the needy, and bear testimony, fulfilling their covenants.
There is one other setting which provides a near-perfect opportunity to combine love and testimony. In every ward and branch in the Church, once a month we hold a fast and testimony meeting. We fast for two meals. With the money saved, and adding more to it whenever we can, we pay a generous fast offering. The bishop and the branch president use those offerings, under inspiration, to care for the poor and the needy. Thus, by paying a fast offering we give comfort to those in need of comfort as w ... (continued)
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Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker shares personal observations of the transformative power of keeping covenants, as seen in the spiritual growth of missionaries and mature members serving missions.
The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love. That happens because of the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ to change our very natures. We are eyewitnesses of that miracle of greater spiritual power coming to those who accept covenants and keep commandments. For instance, there are families across the Church who read and reread letters from their missionary children with wonder, and a few tears, at the miracle that in so short a ... (continued)
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Elder Henry B. Eyring
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker concludes with personal testimony and assurance that God will grant the power to keep covenants to those who make an honest effort.
Each of us who have made covenants with God face challenges unique to us. But each of us shares some common assurances. Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual. Because of that, a way will be prepared for us to keep our ... (continued)
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Witnesses of Christ
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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A Church member wrote to the speaker asking if they have the right to bear testimony of the Savior or if it is only for the Twelve Apostles.
A few months ago, I received a letter from a Church member who posed an unusual question: "Do I have a right to bear testimony of the Savior? Or is that the sole prerogative of the Twelve?" In response, I will share some thoughts on why every member of this Church should bear witness and testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Witnesses of Christ
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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A member from the United States described a fast and testimony meeting and subsequent church meetings where Jesus was not mentioned.
I quote from a recent letter I received from a member in the United States. He described what he heard in his fast and testimony meeting: "I sat and listened to seventeen testimonies and never heard Jesus mentioned or referred to in any way. I thought I might be in [some other denomination], but I supposed not because there were no references to God, either. "¦ "The following Sunday, I again attended church. I sat through a priesthood lesson, a Gospel Doctrine lesson, and seven sacrament meetin ... (continued)
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Witnesses of Christ
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Simeon and Anna, two aged and spiritual temple workers, received a witness of Jesus's identity and testified of him when Joseph and Mary brought the infant Jesus to the temple.
The book of Luke records two examples of this. In obedience to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought the infant Jesus to the temple at Jerusalem after forty days, to present him to the Lord. There, two aged and spiritual temple workers received a witness of his identity and testified of him. Simeon, who had known by revelation from the Holy Ghost that he should not taste of death until he had seen the Messiah, took the infant in his arms and testified to his divine mission. (SeeLuke 2:25"“ ... (continued)
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Witnesses of Christ
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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President Harold B. Lee reflected on the shift in missionary work from defending the truth of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon to defending the divine mission of Jesus Christ.
Speaking almost twenty years ago, President Harold B. Lee said: "Fifty years ago or more, when I was a missionary, our greatest responsibility was to defend the great truth that the Prophet Joseph Smith was divinely called and inspired and that the Book of Mormon was indeed the word of God. But even at that time there were the unmistakable evidences that there was coming into the religious world actually a question about the Bible and about the divine calling of the Master, himself. Now, fifty y ... (continued)
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