Getting the Gospel Down Into Our Hearts

Elder Eyring once said that he learned from President Hinckley that we must do better at getting the gospel down into our own hearts and the hearts of those we love and serve. We should constantly be asking ourselves how to meet that challenge.

Elder Boyd K. Packer spoke in General Conference in 1977. His talk was titled "The Mediator." In his talk he said:

"[The Atonement of Christ] is the very root of Christian doctrine. You may know much about the gospel as it branches out from there, but if you only know the branches and those branches do not touch that root, if they have been cut free from that truth, there will be no life nor substance nor redemption in them."
["The Mediator," Ensign, May 1977, p. 56].

Quite possibly, the only way to meet President Hinckley's challenge to do better at getting the gospel down into our hearts is to focus all we do on the Atonement of Christ. We can take our example from the prophet, Nephi, when he said, "We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophecy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins" (2 Nephi 25:26).

I testify that as we center our lives on the Savior and His atonement, we will also have cause to rejoice. May we always remember Him.

-Sister Knight, Stake Relief Society