Be Thou an Example of the Believers

Elder Russell M. Nelson

"Most full-time missionaries are young men. Some are sisters; some are senior missionaries. We love each one! Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children. Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father. He wants to bless them with His greatest gift, that of eternal life. Missionaries so teach wherever they serve. They help people to develop faith in the Lord, repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, receive the ordinances of the temple, and endure faithfully to the end. God's work and glory—'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man'—is also the sacred work and glory of each missionary."

Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "Be Thou an Example of the Believers," Ensign, Nov. 2010, 47–48.

I treasure the time I have spent with my grandpa and the skills he has taught me.

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