Because of Your Faith

Thank you for your sustaining vote and prayers. Please know that we sustain and pray for you. We are grateful for you and all the good you do.

What incredible sacrifice by his parents for his mission.

The personal value, the sacred splendor of every one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation. Contrary to the parlance of the day, this is about you.

Smile, if you will, about our traditions, but somehow the too-often unheralded women in this church are always there when hands hang down and knees are feeble. They seem to grasp instinctively the divinity in Christ’s declaration: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these . . . , ye have done it unto me.”

I think, for example, of the leaders of our young men who, depending on the climate and continent, either take bone-rattling 50-mile (80 km) hikes or dig – and actually try to sleep in – ice caves for what have to be the longest nights of human experience.

Having done both 50-mile hikes and slept in snow caves, I can vouch that both are much less terrible than people often suspect, in fact igloos are very comfortable when built right.

. . . to the near-perfect elderly sister who almost apologetically whispered recently, “I have never been a leader of anything in the Church. I guess I’ve only been a helper,” I say, “Dear sister, God bless you and all the ‘helpers’ in the kingdom.” Some of us who are leaders hope someday to have the standing before God that you have already attained.

Having the opportunity to observe President Eyring, I can testify that he also genuinely feels that way.

No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is – a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people. We are honored beyond expression to be counted one with you in such a sacred cause.