- I do not know what lies ahead of you young men, but my advice would be to fasten your seat belts and hold on firmly to your principles!
- Back then, in family, neighborhood, ward, and school life, we were all poor together, but we didn't know it. We made room for each other to grow, to make dumb mistakes, to repent, and to begin to develop at least some spiritual reflexes. Today, some anxious parents seem to insist on constantly pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
- Young or old, my priesthood brothers, be grateful for people in your lives who love you enough to correct you, to remind you of your standards and possibilities, even when you don't want to be reminded.
- "You could have gone all day without saying that."
- No wonder the wise father of Elder Henry B. Eyring observed once how the Lord had a perfect Church until He let all of us inside!
- We worship a Lord who teaches us precept by precept, brethren, so even when we are teaching our children the gospel, let's not dump the whole load of hay.
- Do not expect the world's solutions to the world's problems to be very effective.
- Our wives are often inspired but sometimes in counterintuitive ways--a reality, young men, which your fathers may be brave enough to explain to you sometime.
- He did not give up, that He did "go ... after that which [was] lost, until he [did] find it."
- You live in a world of great uncertainty. There are many voices. There are many paths. Not all lead to our Heavenly Father.
- "The Spirit speaketh the truth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really are, and of things as they really will be."
- "Without the obedient response to 'things as they really are,' there are the endless detours and the empty searches for another course of life. ... A course of life that is wrong now cannot and will not be proven right later on."
- Unfortunately, we are seeing the removal of traditional standards of morality and behavior in today's world. The vernacular of today is "anything goes." The world views time-honored standards as old-fashioned or out-of-date.
- Choose friends with high standards.
- Young men, these standards you are privileged to keep are truly a pearl of great price. The world does not understand them. Many good people seek them. You have them.
- We are almost the only organization left that has established, time-honored standards. Most others have succumbed to the culture of our world. How blessed we are to have living prophets.
- Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.
- First, recognizing the error of our ways;
- Second, forsaking the wrongful conduct;
- Third, never repeating it;
- and, fourth, confessing and making restitution where possible.
- Progression comes faster and easier by learning from our parents, those who love us, and our teachers. We can also learn from the mistakes of others, observing the consequences of their wrong choices.
- "When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice."
- Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to say, "No," the courage to say, "Yes." Decisions do determine destiny.
- The call for courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever be.
- "If you ever find yourself where you shouldn't be--get out!"
- "Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid ... " for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee."
- Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently.
- Someone has said that courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it. At times, courage is needed to rise from failure, to strive again.
- Time marches on. Duty keeps cadence with that march. Duty does not dim nor diminish. Catastrophic conflicts come and go, but the war waged for the souls of men continues without abatement. Like a clarion call comes the word of the Lord to you, to me, and to the priesthood holders everywhere: "Wherefore now let every man learn his duty, and to act in the office in which he is appointed, in all diligence."
- Those in need are expected to do all they can to provide for themselves. Then families are expected to assist in taking care of their less-fortunate members. And then the resources of the Church are made available.
- Where devastating floods have come, where earthquake shave created disaster, where hunger has stalked the land, wherever want has been created by whatever cause, representatives of the Church have been there.
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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