Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as is our life here on earth.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.

May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.