Sacrament Meeting Talk-26 May 2002-Oak Hills 5th Ward
1960’s bomb shelter. We must prepare spiritually against the power of Satan.
Checklist for the family: You do the following with fasting, prayer and scripture study.
1. Husband and wife: Unified in the Lord.
Test: Whatever problem arises, agree on a solution that works. And never get angry with one another.
2. Family: Lead your children to Jesus Christ through regular family home evening, family prayer, family work and play activities.
3. Testimony: Unshakable knowledge that the Restored Gospel and Church are true and that the General Authorities, your stake president, and your bishop are appointed of Jesus Christ.
Test: You move with the church as the dispensation unfolds.
4. Building the Kingdom: Make a significant contribution toward the establishment of Zion each week in your callings. You are concerned about the poor.
Test: Someone else is more faithful and more blessed because of your labors.
5. You are a missionary: You bear testimony of Christ wherever, whenever the Holy Spirit prompts you.
Test: You distribute Books of Mormon and your testimony regularly.
6. You are a genealogist: Your four generations have been submitted, and you are working on ancestral lines.
Test: You are doing family names in the temple for someone connected to you.
7. You are financially responsible:
Test: You pay a generous tithing and offerings, and spend less than you take in.
8. You care for your physical tabernacle:
Test: You have a regular exercise routine and eat for health, not just for taste.
9. You are ready to be reassigned to the next world.
Test: You are properly insured and have an air-tight estate plan. And you have repented.
10. You have a pure mind and heart:
Test: You do not countenance pornography, evil influences, or light-mindedness, but garnish your thoughts with virtue. You systematically root out all selfishness from your soul.
11. Your house and belongings are in physical order. You own only what you need, and all is neat, clean, and functional.
Test: You can find and use whatever you need quickly.
12. You are civically responsible.
Test: You take an active interest in bettering your community, state, nation, by getting good people into office.
If you do these things, you will be very close to loving the Lord with all of your heart, might, mind and strength, and you will have power in the priesthood.
This is the way to Christ: it is strait and narrow, a few there be that find it. But those that find it inherit everything.