Go and Serve Knowing That You Are Not Alone

President Eyring: "Trust in That Spirit Which Leadeth to Do Good"

Contributed By Sarah Jane Weaver, Church News associate editor

Article Highlights

• Get and serve knowing that you exercise not go solitary.
• Remember the Lord equally y'all become in service for Him.
• Be modest most your good works.

"I hope and pray that you will feel gratitude and joy equally the Lord puts you together with others to serve for Him." —President Henry B. Eyring of the Start Presidency

The faith of Latter-day Saint women—"wherever they may be or in any circumstances"—will atomic number 82 them to do "all they can for those God asks them to serve," said President Henry B. Eyring on March 26.

"Equally they do, I promise that they will motion upwardly the path to become holy women, whom the Savior and our Heavenly Father will welcome warmly and reward openly," he said.

Speaking during the general women's session of the Church's 186th annual general conference, President Eyring addressed the topic "Trust in That Spirit Which Leadeth to Do Good."

[View President Eyring's full address.]

President Eyring, First Counselor in the Beginning Presidency, noted that during the session the women of the Church had been "inspired to do more to help our Main in His work to lift up and to succor the children of our Heavenly Father."

The desire of Church members to serve others is magnified by their gratitude for what the Savior has done for them, he said.

"When our faith in Jesus Christ leads us to qualify for the joy of His forgiveness, we feel a desire to serve others for Him," he explained.

President Eyring said during the meeting he thought of the women in his life. "At that place are 31 women and girls in our family unit, first with my wife and progressing to include our three newest bully-granddaughters," he said. "Some are here with us this evening. … Each volition take a different set of memories and brand her own commitments from this feel this evening."

President Eyring said there are three memories and iii commitments that he prays will stay with them over a lifetime and fifty-fifty across. "The memories are of feelings. And the commitments are of things to do," he explained.

The feeling of greatest importance is dear, he said. "You lot accept felt love for others tonight—for friends, schoolmates, neighbors, and even someone who only came into your life, a stranger. That feeling of beloved is a gift from God."

President Henry B. Eyring, Get-go Counselor in the Starting time Presidency

A 2d feeling "you have had tonight was the influence of the Holy Ghost," President Eyring continued. "Sisters have promised y'all this day that the Holy Ghost will guide you to find the service the Lord would have you give to others for Him. You have felt by the Spirit that their hope was from the Lord and that it is true."

The third feeling "you have had tonight is that you desire to exist closer to the Savior," he said.

"Then, with those feelings, the commencement thing you lot must commit to do is to become and serve knowing that you lot do not become lone," said President Eyring. "When y'all go to comfort and serve anyone for the Savior, He prepares the way earlier yous. As the returned missionaries here this evening volition tell you, that doesn't mean that every person behind every door is prepared to welcome you lot or that every person yous try to serve will give thanks you. But the Lord volition go before your face up to prepare the way."

President Eyring said fourth dimension and again President Monson has said he knows the reality of the Lord's promise: "And whoso receiveth y'all, there I volition exist also, for I will get before your face. I volition exist on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels circular about you lot, to bear you up" (D&C 84:88).

President Eyring told the women ane of the ways the Lord goes "earlier your face" is to prepare the heart of the person He has asked them to serve. "He will prepare your heart equally well. You will as well find that the Lord puts helpers by your side, on your correct, your left, and all around you lot. Yous do not become alone to serve others for Him. …

"I hope and pray that yous will feel gratitude and joy as the Lord puts you together with others to serve for Him."

President Eyring told the women the second thing they "must do is remember the Lord every bit you lot go in service for Him."

"The Lord not only goes before our faces and sends angels to serve with the states, but He as well feels the comfort we give others as if we had given it to Him," he explained.

President Eyring said Latter-day Saint women, as counseled by Sister Linda K. Burton, will pray to know whom God would have them serve out of love for Him and for the Savior.

"And you will not await or want a public memorial. … My promise is that the sisters in our family volition do the best they can out of love for God to serve those in need, but the tertiary thing I hope they volition practise is exist modest about their good works."

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