MLK Weekend

Hey Hey! How's it going? It's a wonderful weekend.

This week will be a good one. I can tell. So, here's what's happening:

1. Tomorrow from 8:30-1:30 there will be service activities for MLK Day of Service. Go to the Wilk on campus if you want to participate. It will be a great opportunity to get out and feel good.
2. Also tomorrow, is Bishopric FHE. Contact your FHE leaders and double check with the Facebook page to see where y'all are heading.
3. Wednesday at 7pm in JFSB B092 is Institute! Gotta love the D&C!
4. Thursday at 6pm we are having our ward Temple trip! We'll be meeting in the foyer of the temple (turn right when you enter, so opposite the door to the baptistry). President Ashton and Patriarch Mourik will be speaking with us. It will be wonderful. I'm very excited.
5. Saturday, probably at 10am, we'll be having a combined RS activity. We'll be updated with the details on that later.
6. Sunday, 26th, there is a Stake Leadership training meeting from 7-9pm. RS presidency, all instructors, and basically all the committee chairs need to attend. We'll be reminded again next week, but here's a heads up so you can plan accordingly.

I think that's enough for this week. So, here is our lesson recap. Brittany did a wonderful job today with our combined Relief Society's. Isn't she fabulous? :)

Brittany: What do you think about in your spare moments?
-food, school, boys, future, money, career, sleep, family, callings
President Smith: Jesus Christ
Elder Holland: First and Great Commandment
-Peter, do you love me?
If I want fish, I can get fish. What I need are disciples, and I need them forever.

I think that’s a great segue into President Smith’s lesson.
We can’t live the same way we would without the gospel. That has to be the primary things in our lives. I feel that sometimes it touches us every once and a while, but to have it touch us more often, would change our day to day lives.
Kelsey H: I think it would affect how we interact with others. When we’re consciously thinking of Christ we’re going to talk to everyone.
Christine: In the past I was hesitant to adopt the gospel fully because it was holing me back. But I’ve realized that the gospel is what makes me the most happy. Life is so busy that if I can cut out the things that aren’t important and focus on the gospel I can be happier.
Ashlyn: I think the biggest trap is to focus on ourselves. With the Savior on our minds we can go out and find those who are struggling and need our help.
Brittany: I’m a masters student right now and I’m dating someone, I feel like that because of those two things, they’re good, but for them to become all consuming and justify not thinking about others, I don’t think that does me any favors. I feel like I have more to give when I try more.
Lacey: Most of my family is very successful entrepreneurs. I always thought that I had to be successful. Then I discovered that my gift is to teach. This talk helped me realize that if God wants me to make money, he can do that. If he wants me to put myself out there, something maybe a little more challenging, then I should do it. He can guide me.

Jacob 2:18-19

But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God. And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to ado good—to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.

Brittany: We’re often told or compelled to do something and be devoted about it, and we might not feel like that’s what we should be doing spiritually, but I think this scripture hits the nail on the head.
So that’s what it’s about. That’s what all these things are about. These things are secondary. Everything besides Christ is secondary.
I went to school in Nashville for my undergrad. I had a friend who was very smart and was planning on going to law school. He didn't think there were many people to date in Nashville. He said he wants to go to law school on the East Coast. He said there aren’t very many people to date out there, but I’ll focus on that after my studies. I told him, I don’t think you get your ducks in order and then live the gospel. In my mind I had this image of him furnishing a room like his life. His wife was going to be like putting a chair in. I hope we’re not waiting to put the Savior in our life.
Ashley: Sometimes I think there’s supposed to be a certain order in my life. I’ve seen it in my life that as long as whatever the focus of what I’m doing is geared toward Christ, that the other things fall into place.i felt like in my life that if your focus is ultimately on God that he’s going to take you, shape you, and ultimately take you where you need to go. Putting him at the top is everything for me.
Marren: I feel like it’s not us that furnishes the room. I feel like when we’re doing what we can to have Jesus at the top, it all gets furnished along the way. You never know when it’s going to happen.
Brittany: Every blessing is somewhere along the path as we keep Christ at the top.
Carla: Living the gospel to me was anew thought process and conflicts with what I grew up wanting. I think God shapes you as a person. Not every woman is going to have strong desires for motherhood, but you do have to follow the gospel. He’ll shape you. He won’t force you into the mold.
Alex G: I’m trying to get into the habit of asking every night what I need to do, but everything falls into place even if I don’t want to hear it.
Ginger: When trials come up in our lives we need to reevaluate our lives and it’s an opportunity. As an artist, Christ is the creator. Just because you have your life going for you right now, doesn’t mean it won’t change, and yo need to be willing to let it change.
President Joseph Fielding Smith said:

He is indeed the only begotten Son of God, and through His grace, and the grace of His Father, hath redeemed us from sin on condition of our repentance. We know that He has risen from the dead, that He has ascended on high, taking captivity captive [see Psalm 68:18], and has become the author of salvation unto all who will believe, who will repent of their sins and accept Him as the Redeemer of the world [see Hebrews 5:9]. Latter-day Saints are not left in doubt regarding these things.
While men may formulate plans, adopt theories, introduce strange works, and gather and teach many peculiar doctrines, one teaching is fundamental, and from it we cannot depart: all things are concentrated in and around the Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the world. We accept him as the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh, the only one who has dwelt in the flesh who had a Father who was immortal. Because of his birthright and the conditions surrounding his coming to the earth, he became the Redeemer of men; and through the shedding of his blood we are privileged to return into the presence of our Father, on conditions of our repentance and acceptance of the great plan of redemption of which he is the author.

Brittany: I think you guys are great. I believe that most of us are here because we prayed about it and HF sent us to UT. Make sure you didn't pray about it once and jump on a conveyor belt. Make sure your secondary goal doesn’t end up overshadowing your primary.
What’s the last important decision you made and how did your relationship with Christ influence that?

Carla: I came here. I didn’t want to come here. One of my decisions was how is the ward? When I first came I didn’t want to be here. I know that one reason I came was to learn patience. It brought me closer to christ because I learned more about the Atonement and the enabling power.
Kelsey H: When I decided to serve a mission I was terrified. I talked with my mom after I made the decision, and she said I probably should go. She said that maybe Heavenly Father was giving her those feelings of nervousness. But I trusted that first decision of going and I was able to grow so much.
Christine: I feel like in the last couple years I’ve really been able to do that. Every decision I've made has drastically changed who I’ve become. I got active in church in Nashville and it changed me. Then I went on a mission and it changed who I’ll marry. Then I came to Utah. It’s building my testimony in a great way. It’s making me happy if I can just follow him.

Isaiah 53:2

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Brittany: I have a testimony of the savior and the Atonement, and I know that he will guide us in our lives when we focus on him. We won’t focus on him at the expense of the good things in our lives, but it will be added upon. I think sometimes it’s hard to remember, but when we can refocus and toughen up, it may seem like we have less to work with, but we have more to work with.

Welcome January Weather

Hello again my friends! I like seeing everyone on Sunday.

Here are the announcements for the week:
1. Tonight is the CES Fireside with Elder Tad R. Callister. It will probably be over by the time this is posted.
2. Ward Prayer will be tonight in FDL garage at 8pm. If you want to play on the intramural basketball team, please sign up tonight. The first game is Friday at 8pm. If you can't play, please support the team!
3. Tuesday is when Bishop and Brother Porter would like to start ecclesiastical endorsements. They're due by the middle of March if you will be a continuing student at BYU next fall.
3. Institute is at 7pm on Wednesday in B092 JFSB.
4. Mark your calendars for the ward temple day on Thursday, January 23rd. Please text 208-630-3933 and specify whether you are going for baptisms, an endowment session, or the sealings with Patriarch Mourik. It will be at 6:30pm and President Ashton would like to meet with our group as well.
5. Sunday, January 26th is a Stake Leadership Training meeting from 7-9pm at the Costco North chapel (probably).

Rachel was wonderful and taught our lesson today. Here we go. Sorry I haven't updated all the missing quotes. Here's the link to the lesson. Please read it. Rachel did a wonderful job preparing and teaching today. It would be a great benefit to everyone to read this lesson.

https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-joseph-fielding-smith/chapter-1-our-father-in-heaven?lang=eng

Joseph Fielding Smith
Loved to play ball, but more so reading. Especially the scriptures. Nervous that he would be called on a mission after getting married. Called to serve in England one year after marriage. One of the hardest things of his life. 0 baptisms. Wife passed away after two children. Remarried, died after 7 children. Remarried a younger woman who loved to sing. Saw the SLC temple built. Called to be prophet in 1970, died 1972.

Noble Father video Mormon Messages
http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages#earthly-father-heavenly-father

I loved that last part: Of all the titles..
What are your thoughts? As you were thinking about our HF and his role.
Adrienne: The kids don’t really think about why they have everything. I kind of do that. He is a part of everything. Everything is there because of him.
Ryan: There are so many times throughout my life where I’ve stopped and been amazed at of all things in the eternitites, He is our father. He may not be there every day all day, but he is working in our behalf. As I was watching that, though he does delegate, I feel like he is actively working on our behalf and I feel a sense of gratitude I haven’t before.

Rachel: Like the father says, I’m far, but near, always thinking of them. He always sees us and knows our needs.
Brittany: I think that video made me think about how tenderly HF thinks of us. All of our hearts melted seeing those kids, so think about that and how we are infants in HF kingdom. We are celestial infants. We stumbled sometimes, but he still feels tenderly for us. He knows that we will get there. It made me think that sometimes I think of HF being very justice oriented, but he loves us very much.
Rachel: We’re just infants in the sense that we might stumble and fall, but HF accepts us in spit of our mistakes.
Natalie: Brad Wilcox: little children don’t learn to walk in a day…. Before we came to the world, we progressed as far as we could. … we left those arms crawling but can return to them running. He didn’t leave us here to do it all alone.
Rachel: It was never the intention of our father in heaven to grope in darkness. … has been willing to give them direction. In what ways have you seen that light HF gives to guide you in your lives? In what ways has HF sent light to guide you?

Amber: Often I see the light looking back. I’m directed and guided but don’t see it until I look back. Often when I’m making decisions and not really knowing what I was doing.
Ashley: Sometimes you see the Lord’s hand the best looking back. The times I've seen it the clearest were the hardest. Why? Sometimes you don’t always know the why, but you can see how the Lord took you out of that state to help you be happy. That’s the big scale, and then every day little things. You build off the big things. This is where I can take that experience and things will turn out.
Rachel: Every trial we have will strengthen us. He gives us trials to help us succeed. For me, one of those things is just knowing who I am as a daughter of our HF. Even though we might make mistakes sometimes, that’s ok. HF loves us unconditionally. That’s who He is. He’s our Savior. Our older brother. What a blessing that is to know that.
This lesson talks a bit about the First Vision and what we learn from that. The world was kind of in a lost state. Think about Christ’s character.
God is our father…. We know that our HF is a glorified, exalted being.
JS talks about the character of Christ: If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
Abby: Out of all the things that God is, he likes to be called father. That doctrine means that we understand family. I used to not really care about being a wife and a mother. It was secondary, but understanding that role of HF, our role I’ve really thought about it, I want to do all those things, but my priority now will be focused on motherhood. It helps me understand who I am.
Rachel: What a blessing that we can be the same.
Kiersten: If HF was once like us, he was able to push through struggles. If we didn’t understand the potential to become like him, we wouldn’t be able to progress.
Ky: If we understand Him we can understand our potential and where we’re going.
Ginger: When we understand our relationship with deity, for me it’s been important to understand that’s I’m a daughter of God, and I’ll do some things and not others.
Rachel: There’s a CES fireside that Pres. Uchtdorf gave. He talked about the ugly duckling. He talks about our true identity. We have so much potential. What an incredible thing that is. To be children of this being who created all things. I think that’s just incredible.
The lesson talks about how HF weeps over his disobedient children. It talks about how when Enoch converses with the Lord. HF is weeping. Enoch asks why. … weeping over their agency.
I think about the love HF has for each one of us. Maybe we feel fine, but how much does he weep when we fall away. I have an older brother who is far away from the Church. As I look at all the tears that have been shed over my brother in our own family, I can’t imagine how HF feels about those who go away.
Pres. Eyring tells the story of a grandmother whose grandson is sent to prison. She prays: why do I have this tragedy of a grandson who destroyed his life “I sent him to you because I knew you would love him no matter what he did.”
HF loves us and has sent others to love us. The way will not be easy in a decaying world. God won’t force us. He loves all of his children. The Savior paid the price for all sins.
Thinking about that, here’s our Father in Heaven, just knowing that love, think about the things we can do to reach out to those around us and show our love and care for them. Growing up I don’t really remember having him around. My parents have always welcomed him back with open arms. Our relationship has grown a lot. I think that love we’ve shown him has pushed that. Think about characteristics that we can apply in our lives. Reach out in the ward. That’s our job here. Reach out to our brothers and sisters and love them. Just as our HF loves us. I promise HF will send blessings your way. He will let you know of His love. I can see that. What a wonderful felling that is. He loves us individually. I hope we can build that friendship with him just as our earthly fathers. He will listen.

Happy New Year!

We made it! It's now 2014! How long will it take you to write the date correctly on paperwork? It normally takes me a few weeks and a slip up somewhere in April. :)

I hope everyone had a delightful break! I know some are still trying to make it back, and our prayers are with you. In addition, I would like to welcome Kimberly T., Jo, Joy, Abbi, Kim B., and Christine to our RS. We're excited to have you and get to know you! Also, Mackenzie S. and Mariah L. were sealed last month, so unfortunately we won't be seeing them at Church anymore, but they're just fine with their new eternal companions. That leads to the latest happy news: Megan B. is now engaged to be married! She'll be sticking around for just a few more months.

Here are some announcements to note for the week and near future:
1. Tomorrow night @ 7pm will be a ward FHE @ 3223 WSC (Wilkinson Student Center). It's an upstairs room. It's really big. It will be fun. Please come. We need you. We love you. :D
2. Wednesday, the 8th @ 7pm is Institute in B092 JFSB. It's awesome! Make friends with people and scriptures! Sometimes (if not always) eat food! What's better than that?
3. Sunday, the 12th, Second Sunday Supper right after Church! Asia and her crew make the day delicioso! Don't forget about choir practice right after that!
4. Also Sunday, the 12th, CES Fireside with Elder Tad R. Callister @ the Marriott Center @ 6pm.
5. Thursday, the 23rd, Ward Temple Trip with our Stake Patriarch, Patriarch Mourik! @ 6:30pm. That will be very exciting! Our family history and temple prep committee is working hard to help everyone have a name to take to the temple! We will be doing lots of baptisms and Patriarch Mourik (who is also a Temple Sealer) will take endowed ward members up to do some sealings. What a treat! President Ashton (Temple President) will speak to us beforehand. Save the date! Mark your calendars! Get the time off work!

All right, that's probably a little more enthusiastic than y'all cared for today, but I'm happy, so you get to share in my joy. Sundays just make me happy. Here's the lesson recap, again with my disclaimer that I can't copy down everything everyone says perfectly, and the hyperlink tab doesn't work for me, so you need to copy and paste the links if you want to see the page where I've provided a link.

Ky and Megan taught our lesson quite beautifully today from Elder Holland's "Come Unto Me."

Elder Holland: Come unto me. http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=734

Megan: “Some of you know what you want to be and where you want to go with your lives. … but whoever you are, I offer to you tonight the way and the life. I ask you to come unto him….”
We all feel like that at some point in our lives, but the first step is to come to Christ.

Ky: How is your spiritual health? On 1-10 are you fanning the flames of your faith? Your testimony is like a fire. You have to continually feed it. It’s there initially, but if you let it die, that fire goes out. So we need to be thinking every day what we can do to strengthen it.
It’s time to fill your cups and strengthen your relationship.

Matt 25:1-13 Parable of the 10 virgins. http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/25.1-13?lang=eng#primary

Megan: A few months ago my fiancee’s dad was telling us about Jewish culture, and when a bride and groom get engaged, the groom builds a house. They announce to all their friends and family the approximate time the house will be done. When the house is done, that’s when they get married and they move in. I though of that as we were reading this because I think it gives a little more light to the foolishness of the 5 virgins. They knew approximately when the house would be done, but they were still unprepared. Verse 12 of this parable has a cross-reference to JST that says “ye never knew me.” Of course Christ knows us, we need to know him. They all knew the approximate time the house would be done. They all had the opportunity to get to know the bridegroom so they could be ready for the wedding. The 5 wise virgins took the time to get to know the bridegroom and were ready. The 5 foolish virgins were waiting through the last minute.
I helped a good friend plan her wedding last year. I know her better than any of my other friends who are married. What that took was service and getting to know her. That’s what it takes to get to know Christ. To serve our brother’s and sisters. Even though we can’t be with him physically, we can be with him spiritually.

We have an increasing number who have been convinced, through the Book of Mormon, that Jesus is the Christ. Now we need an increasing number who will use the Book of Mormon to become committed to Christ. We need to be convinced and Committed.

-Ezra Taft Benson

Rachel: We can be convinced and converted, but thats all about being converted. We need to convert ourselves and bring ourselves closer to Christ. That’s when we’ll truly be a tool in our Heavenly Father’s hands. We might struggle with the Gospel at some times, but as we become converted to the Gospel and seek outside of ourselves to help others, that’s when we can discover what HF wants for us.

Ryan: Elder Holland shared a story about someone that at Judgement Day it won’t be us pleading to get in, but Christ will be pleading with us that we will come in, but we won’t if we don’t feel comfortable. If you don’t choose to live it you can’t be with Him.

Ky: we need to read the book of Mormon and we need to be committed to Christ. How many of us think about using our faith to be committed and convinced. Are you really convinced and committed to theses things that are taught to you each week? And what are you doing to strengthen that commitment?
Strengthening our core: reading scriptures, praying, communicating with HF, fortifying our testimonies, cleaving to our covenants.

Megan: As we were reading the parable of the 10 virgins, it kept striking me how simple it is to be one of the wise. I think sometimes we overwhelm ourselves. It really is these things we’re talking about right now that put oil in your lamps and strengthen your cores. There’s not a big secret the prophets and apostles are keeping from us.

Ryan: It’s so important to build yourself first, because you can’t help others gain a testimony if you don’t have one. You can compare the virgins to people in our day, and how cool would it be to have your lamp so full, that you could share.

Ky: Sometimes we get to a point in our lives where we don’t care. We get on plateaus. I have to want a testimony. Then I can ask for the help to be motivated.

Jo: It’s funny how what will get you back on that path is when you want it. Then when we get it sometimes we go back to slacking off. We rely so much on Heavenly Father, but we don’t always respect the answers he gives us.

Ky: Cleaving to our covenants- baptism, holy ghost, temple endowment, sealing ordinance. Those are our covenants, and they should mean something. They continue to help us be converted to Christ.
The Living Christ is a testimony that is very close to my heart. I had a really hard semester a few years ago and I was in a place where I felt really small and insignificant. Even when I was praying, I felt that it didn’t matter. I had walked so far from HF that it took me a while to hear Him. A good friend of mine had just come home from his mission and was way pumped up and full of faith. We went to a fireside and were challenged to memorize The Living Christ.

Megan: A few years ago, I was basically inactive, and I was really struggling, with my testimony. It was a visiting teacher that reached out to me and helped me to step out of the darkness and start following Christ’s light. I think one of the things that kept me from going to Church for a while was that I was afraid I wasn’t able to be forgive, and that I wasn’t good enough. I was afraid of what people would think of me for not having been there for a while. “The church isn’t a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well... ‘Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you…. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.’ I submit to you that may be one of the Savior’s commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful Latter-day Saints, almost universally disobeyed” (Elder Holland). As we were talking about complacency, I think that’s a big part of why we don’t come to Christ, but also fear. I never thought about it before, but it is a commandment to let him give you that peace.

Abby: I just got back from my mission in Russia a few months ago. Soon after I was trained, I opened a new area and was training. When I would lay down to go to sleep, I would imagine myself going through the temple.That helped me a lot to remember what my covenants are and the blessings I receive from them.

“Whoever we are, and whatever our problems, his response is always the same, forever: ‘Come unto me’.”

Ky: When I was talking to Megan about this lesson, I was thinking about Elder Holland’s talk the First Great Commandment. Christ comes to them and asks three times “Peter, do you love me?” Peter gets more uncomfortable because he does love Christ. Christ needs disciples and he needs them forever. To be a disciple forever, you need to be converted and continue to strengthen your testimonies to stay converted forever.
That's truly where we want to go. Heavenly Father is waiting for us. I invite you to be ready for Christ when he comes. He wants you to be with him and be with your family in the Celestial Kingdom.

Megan: I know that it really is more simple than we make it. There is always a way back. He has made it simple on purpose so that as many people as possible can let him into their lives. It’s a relationship. We talk to him. We let him in. We serve him. That’s how we will come to know him and be like him.

Ky: I want to issue a challenge that if you are struggling to find a relationship with Christ, read over The Living Christ. Memorize it. It is a testimony form our Prophet and apostles. There is no more powerful testimony than that of those who are with him all the time.

The Living Christ, The Testimony of the Apostles

"As we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ two millennia ago, we offer our testimony of the reality of His matchless life and the infinite virtue of His great atoning sacrifice. None other has had so profound an influence upon all who have lived and will yet live upon the earth.

“He was the Great Jehovah of the Old Testament, the Messiah of the New. Under the direction of His Father, He was the creator of the earth. ‘All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made’ (John 1:3). Though sinless, He was baptized to fulfill all righteousness. He ‘went about doing good’ (Acts 10:38), yet was despised for it. His gospel was a message of peace and goodwill. He entreated all to follow His example. He walked the roads of Palestine, healing the sick, causing the blind to , and raising the dead. He taught the truths of eternity, the reality of our premortal existence, the purpose of our life on earth, and the potential for the sons and daughters of God in the life to come.

“He instituted the sacrament as a reminder of His great atoning sacrifice. He was arrested and condemned on spurious charges, convicted to satisfy a mob, and sentenced to die on Calvary’s cross. He gave His life to atone for the sins of all mankind. His was a great vicarious gift in behalf of all who would ever live upon the earth.

“We solemnly testify that His life, which is central to all human history, neither began in Bethlehem nor concluded on Calvary. He was the Firstborn of the Father, the Only Begotten Son in the flesh, the Redeemer of the world.

“He rose from the grave to ‘become the firstfruits of them that slept’ (1 Corinthians 15:20). As Risen Lord, He visited among those He had loved in life. He also ministered among his ‘other sheep’ (John 10:16) in ancient America. In the modern world, He and His Father appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, ushering in the long-promised ‘dispensation of the fulness of times’ (Ephesians 1:10).

“Of the Living Christ, the Prophet Joseph wrote: ‘His eyes were as a flame of fire; the hair of his head was white like the pure snow; his countenance shone above the brightness of the sun; and his voice was as the sound of the rushing of great waters, even the voice of Jehovah, saying:

“‘I am the first and the last; I am he who liveth, I am he who was slain; I am your advocate with the Father’ (D&C 110:3–4).

“Of Him the Prophet also declared: ‘And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!

“‘For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father—

“‘That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God’ (D&C 76:22–24).

“We declare in words of solemnity that His priesthood and His Church have been restored upon the earth—‘built upon the foundation of … apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone’ (Ephesians 2:20).

“We testify that He will someday return to earth. ‘And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall it together’ (Isaiah 40:5). He will rule as King of Kings and reign as Lord of Lords, and every knee shall bend and every tongue shall speak in worship before Him. Each of us will stand to be judged of Him according to our works and the desires of our hearts.

“We bear testimony, as His duly ordained Apostles—that Jesus is the Living Christ, the immortal Son of God. He is the great King Immanuel, who stands today on the right hand of His Father. He is the light, the life, and the hope of the world. His way is the path that leads to happiness in this life and eternal life in the world to come. God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son” (Ensign,Apr. 2000, 2–3).

http://jesuschrist.lds.org/SonOfGod/eng/testimonies-of-him/articles/the-living-christ-the-testimony-of-the-apostles-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints