Russell M. Nelson

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.

Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of an eternal marriage. By making and keeping sacred temple covenants, we evidence our love for God, for our companion, and our real regard for our posterity-even those yet unborn. Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life; so will it be throughout all eternity.

From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.