If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

How grateful we are that the heavens are indeed open, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that the Church is founded on the rock of revelation. We are a blessed people, with apostles and prophets upon the earth today.

When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.

What is most important almost always involves the people around us.

It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals.

Christ's peace can permeate any heart - hearts that are troubled, burdened with grief, confused, and pleading for help.