FROM CHURCH LEADERS
By Elder Jeffrey R. Holland Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
HOW TO
COME UNTO CHRIST Share Your Experiences Share how you’re coming unto Christ ow does one “come unto Second, we must change anything and read the experiences of other youth at Christ”? The scriptures give we can change that may be part of the lds.org/go/come10NE. Hscores of examples and ave problem. In short we must repent, nues. You are well acquainted with perhaps the most hopeful and encour the most basic ones. The easiest and aging word in the Christian vocabu ordinances of the gospel. These start the earliest comes simply with the lary. We thank our Father in Heaven with baptism and conclude with desire of our heart, the most basic we are allowed to change, we temple covenants, with many form of faith that we know. “If ye can thank Jesus we can change, and others, such as partaking of the no more than desire to believe,” ultimately we do so only with Their sacrament, laced throughout our Alma says, exercising just “a divine assistance. Certainly not every lives as additional blessings and particle of faith,” giving even a thing we struggle with is a result of reminders. Teaching the people of his small place for the promises of God our actions. Often it is the result of day the message we give this morn to find a home—that is enough to the actions of others or just the mortal ing, Nephi said: “Follow the Son, with begin (see Alma 32:27; emphasis events of life. But anything we can full purpose of heart, . . . with real added). Just believing, just having a change we should change, and intent, . . . take upon you the name “molecule” of faith—simply hop- we must forgive the rest. In this way of Christ. . . . Do the things which I ing for things which are not yet seen our access to the Savior’s Atonement have told you I have seen that your in our lives, but which are never becomes as unimpeded as we, with Lord and your Redeemer [will] do” theless truly there to be bestowed our imperfections, can make it. He (2 Nephi 31:13, 17). (see Alma 32:21)—that simple step, will take it from there. Following these most basic teach when focused on the Lord Third, in as many ways as possible ings, a splendor of connections to Jesus Christ, has ever been and we try to take upon us His iden- Christ opens up to us in multitudinous always will be the first principle tity, and we begin by taking upon ways. So we step, we strive, we seek, of His eternal gospel, the first step us His name. That name is formally and we never yield. out of despair. bestowed by covenant in the saving From an April 2006 general conference address.
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