Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

This is our high and holy calling-to be agents of Jesus Christ, to love as He loved, to serve as He served.

You may feel burdened by worry, fear, or doubt. To you and to all of us, I repeat a wonderful and certain truth: #God's light is real. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. It can illuminate the path before us and lead us through the darkest night into the promise of a new dawn.

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.