In the Path of Their Duty
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I am grateful for millions of Church members who today are coming unto the Savior and pressing forward on the covenant path. … Your strong faith in Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ and your unpretentious, consecrated lives inspire me to be a better man and disciple.
I love you. I admire you. I thank you. And I commend you.
A statement in the Book of Mormon by Samuel the Lamanite best summarizes my feelings for you.
“Behold that the more part of them are in the path of their duty … and they are striving with unwearied diligence that they may bring the remainder of their brethren to the knowledge of the truth” [Helaman 15:5–6; emphasis added]. …
You love and serve, listen and learn, care and console, and teach and testify by the power of the Holy Ghost. You fast and pray often, wax stronger and stronger in humility, and grow firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, “unto the filling [your] souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of [your] hearts, which sanctification cometh because of … yielding [your] hearts unto God” [Helaman 3:35].
… You who today are pressing forward in the path of your duty are the strength of the Savior’s restored Church. And as the Lord has promised, “all thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall be revealed and set forth upon all who have endured valiantly for the gospel of Jesus Christ” [Doctrine and Covenants 121:29].