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There are people who need your priesthood service. Your family needs you. Your quorum needs you. The Church needs you. The world needs you. There is an urgency for you to fulfill your duty to God. My name is Michael. I'm from Albuquerque, New Mexico. I definitely believe that as of now in this time in my life, that I've been called to the work. Being a priesthood man is thinking not of yourself, but thinking of others. It's what-- the way you serve people is what makes you a priesthood man. The Aaronic Priesthood is not only the preparatory priesthood, but it is the power to serve now. In Doctrine and Covenants section 20, we read, "The priest's duty is to preach, teach, expound, exhort, and baptize, and administer the sacrament." As you fulfill your duty to God, you will strengthen and bless your family. This is your greatest priesthood duty. My greatest goal is that my brother sees me as someone that really does love him and really wants to take care of him. I love him more than anything. We try to be great examples to each other, to show each other what the right thing is to do. And yeah, there have been so many times we've borne testimony about certain things to each other about what we were discussing. And it is very powerful. I love those. As you fulfill your duty to God, you will reach out to your friends who are not of our faith and help prepare them to join the Church. Like a true brother, you will watch over and strengthen them. Well as far as numbers of the members of the Church at my school, there's not that many, very few on the football team. There's two of us, including me. But what we do to strengthen each other is a tradition we have before games. We will have a devotional with each other. We'll read the scriptures on the bus. And we'll actually get the whole team together. At first a couple of the other football team-- but weren't members-- would join in. And then the numbers grew and grew. And we'd read like from the Book of Mormon stories about the armies of Helaman, or something that really strengthens you before for a football game. If you have scripture, and it's God's will for you to understand it, to read it, and take from that as much information as you can, I believe that it's the right thing to do. And me not being an LDS Mormon, I still believe that if I take the meaning and knowledge gained from scripture-- not only from the Bible, but in the Book of Mormon-- it can help me understand things more clearly. They really enjoy it. I've had guys right before a game, they're saying, oh, everybody, everybody, devotional. Or come on, we gotta have our devotional. Michael and others and myself believe that we're leading this football team. And we're leading others to gain knowledge, not only in the sport, but also what's next, the life that they're going to have after football, after high school, in the future. And Michael does a good job at that, mentoring younger kids, fellow teammates. And everyone just has the right attitude when he's around. My work is to bring to pass the immortality and the eternal life of man, the same work that my Father in Heaven has for us.

Becoming a Priesthood Man: Priesthood Duty

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Michael strives to be an example and strengthen those around him. What started as a pregame devotional for him and his only Latter-day Saint teammate quickly became a tradition for many people on the football team.
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