Texas Mission Report

My brethren and sisters, I am delighted to have this opportunity. I was released from presiding over the Texas Mission some six months ago, but I feel grateful to the Lord for the privilege I had of laboring as a missionary there. ¶

I am grateful for the knowledge I have that this is the work of the Lord. During the past six months I have had the opportunity of visiting among the people and of speaking virtually every Sunday. I have been invited to speak at five different funerals. I have enjoyed very much being home among the Latter-day Saints. I am grateful, my brethren and sisters, for the testimony I have, and for the knowledge that has come to me that this is indeed the work of the Lord. ¶

"Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants, the prophets." Oh, how I rejoice in the testimony that has come to me that these men whom we sustain as our general authorities are indeed prophets, seers and revelators to this Church and people — a marvelous thing, my brethren and sisters. ¶

The other day, when I was going out on the mountain, I heard a noise. I looked, and a large deer jumped and gave a little snort. I looked a little farther along the ridge and I could see eight more deer bounding off into the quaking asp, and I thought that the Lord in his kindness had placed sentinels even among the animals and those of his lesser creations. ¶

How important it is and how grateful we should be as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that the Lord has placed sentinels, has given us authorities in the wards and stakes who represent the Master, and above all, that we have a prophet, seer and revelator who stands at the head of the Church. I am just as confident as that I live, that the Lord our God will reveal unto him his mind and will pertaining to this great and important work. ¶

I have been impressed with this conference. I have enjoyed very much each and every one of the testimonies. I was thrilled this morning with the message of President Grant — as I always am — when I heard him bear his fervent testimony as to how the Lord had blessed him in body and in mind all these fifty-three years that he has been serving this people. ¶

May the Lord bless us. May we live our religion. May we prove to the world that we are indeed God's chosen people, I humbly pray, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. ¶