We're having a difficulty, at least I am, in the south and getting completely organized for our 4th of July labor day. But I want to encourage you brethren to come down. And I say I'm a little scared in my mind. I'm not able to tell you just how things are going to work out this time. But we will, I'm sure, be prepared to meet, getting some participants ready to test out this coming week. And I'm sure there's...

It looks like it's going to work. We have a lot of things there for you to do. If any of you feel like coming, why, bring a towel within your hammock. I'm sitting here thinking a few minutes as I was listening to these remarks and thinking about the people, how we've been together now so long. Thanks the Lord. It would be a wonderful thing if we could develop now the integrity to see our labor through. That attention is great.

I believe that we're becoming more converted each day. I think our conversion is based largely on our knowledge and understanding and the revelations of the mind and will of God and the life that we have. Certainly we can't be as completely converted and as comfortable today as we would be if we were sitting in the presence of the Savior and the brethren on the other side and being taught more liberally than we're able to be taught today. So it is a relative thing.

and saw this continuing in each other's society and hungry and thirsting after righteousness and the truth and being edified from time to time suddenly adds to our conversion and there is a certainly a definite relation between our conversion and our obedience and there will lie the success of our lives and we just converted briefly enough to overcome our faults and failings and then the obedience potentials of the gospel then that's on the day of our salvation. But we are astute and traditionated in the ways of the Gentiles. Let's remember this. We have a constant labor to perform to overcome conditions of our birthright, having been born in this Gentile nation. But a Gentile church will remain so until the Lord sends forth the gospel to the house of Jesus. So it's going to be part of our nature.

That's been a hardship. That's one of the reasons why God hasn't cursed these people long ago for their disobedience. Because they've come out of a Gentile nation and have been traditionated in their folklore and in their natures and so forth. Consequently, we've had some day of retreat with the Lord that he's had patience and long-suffering. But that is the only excuse that he has. His faith in the days of Joseph and Isaiah.

and disobedience to the Lord that he hasn't destroyed them off to the face of the earth. It's simply because he's come out of a Gentile nature. Let's face him as possible as a day of our conversion. If we can get more of the Spirit of God, greater will be our conversion. It's not going to give us greater life and knowledge and understanding and a greater desire to draw near to the Lord.