There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.

Forget yourself and get to work.

Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, ours is a work of redemption, of lifting and saving those who need help. Ours is a task of raising the sights of those of our people who fail to realize the great potential that lies within them.

...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.