Below are the quotes that were used in the video.
President Gordon B. Hinckley: "You don't know how much good you can do; you can't foresee the results of the effort you put in. Years ago, President Charles A. Callis, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, but who previously was president of the Southern States Mission for twenty five years, told me this story. He said that he had a missionary in the southern states who came in to get his release at the conclusion of his mission. His mission president said to him, 'Have you had a good mission?’”
He said, 'No.'"'How is that?’
"'Well, I haven't had any results from my work. I have wasted my time and my father's money. It's been a waste of time.’
"Brother Callis said, 'Haven't you baptized anyone?’”
He said, 'I baptized only one person during the two years that I have been here. That was a twelve year old boy up in the back hollows of Tennessee.’
"He went home with a sense of failure. Brother Callis said, 'I decided to follow that boy who had been baptized. I wanted to know what became of him. The next time I went up into that area I looked him up. He had put on shoes (he'd never worn shoes before), he'd put on a shirt (he'd never had a shirt before), he was the clerk of the little branch Sunday School.’
"Brother Callis said, 'I followed him through the years. He became the Sunday School Superintendent, and he eventually became the branch president. He married. He moved off the little tenant farm on which he and his parents before him had lived and got a piece of ground of his own and made it fruitful. He became the district president. He sold that piece of ground in Tennessee and moved to Idaho and bought a farm along the Snake River and prospered there. His children grew. They went on missions. They came home. They had children of their own who went on missions.’
"Brother Callis continued, 'I've just spent a week up in Idaho looking up every member of that family that I could find and talking to them about their missionary service. I discovered that, as the result of the baptism of that one little boy in the back hollows of Tennessee by a missionary who thought he had failed, more than 1,100 people have come into the Church.’
"You never can foretell the consequences of your work, my beloved brethren and sisters, when you serve as missionaries." (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, pp.360-361)
Sister Sharon Eubank: “As baptized members of the Church, we are under covenant to care for those in need. Our individual efforts don’t necessarily require money or faraway locations; they do require the guidance of the Holy Spirit and a willing heart to say to the Lord, “Here am I; send me.” (Sharon Eubank, “I Pray He’ll Use Us,” Liahona, Nov. 2021, 55)
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin: “I have noted throughout my life that when people come to fully understand the blessings and the power of their baptismal covenant, whether as new converts or as lifelong members of the Church, great joy comes into their lives and they approach their duties in the kingdom with contagious enthusiasm.” (“Alma the Elder: A Role Model for Today,” in Heroes from the Book of Mormon [1995], 84)
President Henry B. Eyring: “I think of that each time I visit with new members of the Church. I get that opportunity often, across the world. I see their trusting faces, and often they tell me about some trial of their faith, and then, with urgency in their voices, they whisper, “Please pray for me.” At those moments I feel again the weight of the charge to each of us from the Lord’s living prophet. It is to keep the promise we made in the waters of baptism “to bear one another’s burdens.” It is to be a friend.” (Conference Report, Apr. 2002, 29; or Ensign, May 2002, 26)
Virginia H. Pearce: ““Someone has said that people would rather be understood than be loved. In truth, the surest way to increase our love for someone is to listen with patience and respect. I believe that our baptismal covenant demands this. How can we “mourn with those that mourn’ and “bear one another’s burdens’ (Mosiah 18:8-9) if we don’t listen to know what those burdens are.”
“But we must be careful not to listen as Laman and Lemuel listened to each other. They encouraged mutual murmuring. When fellow ward members complain, blame others, and repeat negative tales, it takes self discipline to stop ourselves from adding more fuel to their fire of disgruntlement. Mutual murmuring is a smoldering fire that can burst into flame and destroy a ward.” (Ensign, Nov. 1993, p. 80)
Elder Orson F. Whitney: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” (Orson F. Whitney, as quoted in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle [1972], 98)
Elder Evan A. Schmutz: “Many of us have pleaded with God to remove the cause of our suffering, and when the relief we seek has not come, we have been tempted to think He is not listening. I testify that, even in those moments, He hears our prayers, has a reason for allowing our afflictions to continue [see Doctrine and Covenants 121:7–8; 122], and will help us bear them” [see Mosiah 24:12–15]. (Evan A. Schmutz, “God Shall Wipe Away All Tears,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2016, 116)
President Dallin H. Oaks: “Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a “healing” cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are “healed” by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.” (Dallin H. Oaks, “He Heals the Heavy Laden,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2006, 7–8)
Principles of God’s Kingdom in Mosiah
President Joseph Fielding Smith: “In the case of Alma and his priesthood, we are left to surmise that he legally and divinely received it before the days of King Noah. We read that Zeniff, the father of Noah, was a righteous man. Alma evidently received the priesthood in the days of Zeniff, and at no time did he fully accept the teachings nor with full purpose follow the counsels and procedure of Noah and his wicked priests…
“Just at what time Alma received the priesthood is not clearly stated, but we may presume that it occurred before Noah came to the throne. Moreover, we must also conclude that Alma at no time truly entered into the wickedness of this wicked king…
“Where did Alma get his authority?
“Evidently he obtained it when he received the priesthood, which through his repentance he had not lost. There can be no serious question in relation to his authority, for it is written – “And it came to pass that Alma; having authority from God, ordained priests; even one priest to every fifty of their number did he ordain to preach unto them, and to teach them concerning the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” ( Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions, 5 vols., (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1957–1966), 4:161–162).
Gideon:
Easing burdens and getting out of bondage
God will
He said, 'No.'"'How is that?’
"'Well, I haven't had any results from my work. I have wasted my time and my father's money. It's been a waste of time.’
"Brother Callis said, 'Haven't you baptized anyone?’”
He said, 'I baptized only one person during the two years that I have been here. That was a twelve year old boy up in the back hollows of Tennessee.’
"He went home with a sense of failure. Brother Callis said, 'I decided to follow that boy who had been baptized. I wanted to know what became of him. The next time I went up into that area I looked him up. He had put on shoes (he'd never worn shoes before), he'd put on a shirt (he'd never had a shirt before), he was the clerk of the little branch Sunday School.’
"Brother Callis said, 'I followed him through the years. He became the Sunday School Superintendent, and he eventually became the branch president. He married. He moved off the little tenant farm on which he and his parents before him had lived and got a piece of ground of his own and made it fruitful. He became the district president. He sold that piece of ground in Tennessee and moved to Idaho and bought a farm along the Snake River and prospered there. His children grew. They went on missions. They came home. They had children of their own who went on missions.’
"Brother Callis continued, 'I've just spent a week up in Idaho looking up every member of that family that I could find and talking to them about their missionary service. I discovered that, as the result of the baptism of that one little boy in the back hollows of Tennessee by a missionary who thought he had failed, more than 1,100 people have come into the Church.’
"You never can foretell the consequences of your work, my beloved brethren and sisters, when you serve as missionaries." (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, pp.360-361)
Sister Sharon Eubank: “As baptized members of the Church, we are under covenant to care for those in need. Our individual efforts don’t necessarily require money or faraway locations; they do require the guidance of the Holy Spirit and a willing heart to say to the Lord, “Here am I; send me.” (Sharon Eubank, “I Pray He’ll Use Us,” Liahona, Nov. 2021, 55)
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin: “I have noted throughout my life that when people come to fully understand the blessings and the power of their baptismal covenant, whether as new converts or as lifelong members of the Church, great joy comes into their lives and they approach their duties in the kingdom with contagious enthusiasm.” (“Alma the Elder: A Role Model for Today,” in Heroes from the Book of Mormon [1995], 84)
President Henry B. Eyring: “I think of that each time I visit with new members of the Church. I get that opportunity often, across the world. I see their trusting faces, and often they tell me about some trial of their faith, and then, with urgency in their voices, they whisper, “Please pray for me.” At those moments I feel again the weight of the charge to each of us from the Lord’s living prophet. It is to keep the promise we made in the waters of baptism “to bear one another’s burdens.” It is to be a friend.” (Conference Report, Apr. 2002, 29; or Ensign, May 2002, 26)
Virginia H. Pearce: ““Someone has said that people would rather be understood than be loved. In truth, the surest way to increase our love for someone is to listen with patience and respect. I believe that our baptismal covenant demands this. How can we “mourn with those that mourn’ and “bear one another’s burdens’ (Mosiah 18:8-9) if we don’t listen to know what those burdens are.”
“But we must be careful not to listen as Laman and Lemuel listened to each other. They encouraged mutual murmuring. When fellow ward members complain, blame others, and repeat negative tales, it takes self discipline to stop ourselves from adding more fuel to their fire of disgruntlement. Mutual murmuring is a smoldering fire that can burst into flame and destroy a ward.” (Ensign, Nov. 1993, p. 80)
Elder Orson F. Whitney: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” (Orson F. Whitney, as quoted in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle [1972], 98)
Elder Evan A. Schmutz: “Many of us have pleaded with God to remove the cause of our suffering, and when the relief we seek has not come, we have been tempted to think He is not listening. I testify that, even in those moments, He hears our prayers, has a reason for allowing our afflictions to continue [see Doctrine and Covenants 121:7–8; 122], and will help us bear them” [see Mosiah 24:12–15]. (Evan A. Schmutz, “God Shall Wipe Away All Tears,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2016, 116)
President Dallin H. Oaks: “Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a “healing” cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are “healed” by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.” (Dallin H. Oaks, “He Heals the Heavy Laden,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2006, 7–8)
Principles of God’s Kingdom in Mosiah
- Attitude of those who desire to be in God’s kingdom (18:8-11).
- Called “the church of Christ” (18:17).
- “… having Authority from God” (18:18).
- Teach what is taught in scriptures and by the living prophets (18:19).
- No contention. There should be unity and “love one towards another” (18:21).
- Observe sabbath day including gathering together (18:23, 25).
- “Give thanks to the Lord their God” (18:23).
- Priest will labor with their own hands and “teach with power and authority from God” (18:24, 26).
- “Impart of their substance” freely to others (18:27-28).
- “Imparting to one another both temporally and spiritually according to their needs and their wants” (18:29).
- Do “not esteem one flesh above another” (23:7).
- Leaders see themselves as “instruments in his hands in bringing so many of you to a knowledge of his truth” (23:10).
- Teachers and ministering sisters and brothers [friends too] are women/men of God “walking in his ways…” (23:14).
- Watch over the people (23:18).
- “Nourish them with things pertaining to righteousness” (23:18).
- “Submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord” (24:15).
- “Filled with pain and anguish for the welfare of their souls” (25:11).
President Joseph Fielding Smith: “In the case of Alma and his priesthood, we are left to surmise that he legally and divinely received it before the days of King Noah. We read that Zeniff, the father of Noah, was a righteous man. Alma evidently received the priesthood in the days of Zeniff, and at no time did he fully accept the teachings nor with full purpose follow the counsels and procedure of Noah and his wicked priests…
“Just at what time Alma received the priesthood is not clearly stated, but we may presume that it occurred before Noah came to the throne. Moreover, we must also conclude that Alma at no time truly entered into the wickedness of this wicked king…
“Where did Alma get his authority?
“Evidently he obtained it when he received the priesthood, which through his repentance he had not lost. There can be no serious question in relation to his authority, for it is written – “And it came to pass that Alma; having authority from God, ordained priests; even one priest to every fifty of their number did he ordain to preach unto them, and to teach them concerning the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” ( Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions, 5 vols., (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1957–1966), 4:161–162).
Gideon:
- Strong man (19:4).
- Enemy to King Noah (19:4).
- Fought with the king (19:5).
- Spared Noah’s life (19:7-8).
- Identifies Priests of Noah as the kidnappers of the Lamanite maidens (20:17-22).
- Gideon took a leading part, by his advice and example, in effecting their deliverance and directing that march (Mosiah 22:3-11).
- When he was exceedingly old, he was still actively engaged in the service of the Lord (Alma 1:7-9).
- Killed by the anti-Christ Nehor (Alma 1:9).
Easing burdens and getting out of bondage
- Be humble (21:13).
- Cry mightily to God (21:14).
God will
- Soften hearts (21:15).
- Begin to ease burdens (21:15).
- Begin to prosper by degrees…(21:16).
- Why we have a church.
- A reminder of your baptism, your covenants.
- How God helps us ease our burdens.
- How God blesses us to prosper by degrees.
- How God strengthens our faith and increases our patience.
- How God helps us to escape our bondage.
- “Be of good comfort, for on the morrow I will deliver you out of bondage.”