Seminary Centennial Broadcast

We went with JaKelle to the broadcast to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the beginning of the Seminary program and listen to President Boyd K Packer speak to the youth. He spoke about so many wonderful things, but at the end what he said touched me, because I remember being that age and remembering those feelings and I know many youth including my daughter are wondering what is ahead of them. These are the words he counseled to them...

Some of you are floundering about and struggling to find what you will do. It does not really matter what you choose to do for a living. What matters is what you will.bYou have the guidelines to know that. Remember the Spirit is always with you to teach you.

Not many years will pass until you are married and have children, a marriage that should be sealed in the temple. Our prayer is that you will find yourself, in due time, safely settled in a family ward or branch. You will find that you will learn more from your children than ever they will learn from you.

Go Forward with Hope and Faith

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Do not fear the future. Do not fear what is ahead. Go forward with hope and faith. Remember that supernal gift of the Holy Ghost. Learn to be taught by it. Learn to seek it. Learn to live by it. Learn to pray always in the name of Jesus Christ. The Spirit of the Lord will attend you, and you will be blessed.

The poet wrote

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,

So near is God to man,

When Duty whispers low, Thou must,

The youth replies, I can.

I bear my testimony to you—a witness that came to me in my youth. And you are no different from anyone else than I am. You have as much right to that testimony and witness as anyone. It will come to you if you earn it. I invoke the blessings of the Lord upon you—the blessings of that witness to be in your life, to guide you as you make a happy future—in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.