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Now, brothers and sisters, I want to summarize something very quickly. If you consider the adjustments that have been made, you now have the operational, the executional responsibility for the work of salvation, under the direction of the bishop, taking place in the elders quorum and in the Relief Society. Not just the presidencies, in the elders quorum and in the Relief Society. If you pay attention to the recent adjustments in the Young Women classes and in the Aaronic Priesthood quorums, they have exactly the same responsibility, all under the direction of the bishop--but Relief Society, elders quorum, Young Women class presidencies, Aaronic Priesthood quorum presidencies, quorums and classes. And they're not planning activities in Aaronic Priesthood quorums and in Young Women classes to take up time, to fill a check box, because we're supposed to do this every week, or because we want to entertain people. You focus on the work of salvation, learning and living the gospel, sharing the gospel, uniting families, and helping the poor and the needy. Period, exclamation point, end of sentence--that's it! This is really simple. Now, all of this prepares us to hear what I want to express now. Can you see? Can you, can we begin to see what happens when the elders quorum, the Relief Society, the Aaronic Priesthood quorums and the Young Women classes are all laser beam, singularly focused on the work of salvation? The miracles that will occur, the advancement of this work in the earth will be astronomical. And I have this one admonition. Do not underestimate the capacity of these young men and these young women. They don't just need to sit and listen to adults tell them how great it is. They don't need to have adults saying, "Well, when you get a little older, you'll have your turn." They need to be anxiously engaged in this work right now, and they will help identify things to do, ways of accomplishing this work that will majestically move this work all over the earth. Please do not underestimate what those Aaronic Priesthood quorums and those Young Women classes can accomplish.

Youth Responsibility in the Work of Salvation

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Elder Bednar wants the youth to recognize that recent adjustments to Young Women classes and Aaronic Priesthood quorums give them operational and executional responsibility in the work of salvation. When the youth are focused, miracles will come.
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