On the 6th Ward Addiction Recovery Sunday School class for all members...

"My wife and I with our 12 year old son just completed the 12-step addiction recovery class in our ward. What a powerful Sunday School Class! In our classes we discussed some very serious and heavy topics related to the more devastating types of addictions. Our instructors were wonderful and treated each step with clarity and sensitivity. It was a beautiful experience to be reminded of the power of the Atonement and the renewing strength it brings in each of the 12 steps. The power of the Atonement is real!"

-Brother Chris Harrild, 6th Ward

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

What does it mean to offer sacraments to the Lord?

"What does it mean to offer up our sacraments to the Lord? We acknowledge that all of us make mistakes. Each of us has a need to confess and forsake our sins and errors to our Heavenly Father and to others we may have offended. The Sabbath provides us with a precious opportunity to offer up these—our sacraments—to the Lord" (L. Tom Perry, General Conference, April 2011)

Progress is not measured by how close Christ is to us but by how we are drawing closer to Christ. Each sacrament we offer draws us nearer to Christ.

-Brother Curtis Roberts, Stake High Councilor