Brother Wood the Steve, will you speak to us? We pray, my dear brothers and sisters, for your faith and prayers to attend me while I stand before you. In and of myself, I am nothing. I acknowledge that before you. I have been deeply impressed by the proceedings thus far, for the testimonies and for the words of instruction that have been given.

We, judging you folks by myself, little realize our responsibilities until we're brought face to face with conditions that help us to think and to take stock of ourselves. We are indeed a blessed people, more so than anyone on the face of the earth, and I sincerely mean that. I was working on a piece of equipment yesterday by the side of the road, and a man came walking up the road, and he stopped by, and he said, Are you Mr. Steed? I said, Yes. Well, how are you today? Well, I said, I'm fine. And he made himself at home. He came close to where I was working and invited me over to church. He was a stranger to me.

And he immediately bore his testimony of the mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I listened and thanked him for his testimony. And it brought to my attention, dear brothers and sisters, the world of information that we have and the advantages that we are receiving from the servants of God.

His apostles here upon the earth. He had filled a mission. And a second mission. And was spent. He said he spent two months over in Denver. And was responsible for converting of four members. Which is a pretty good harvest. But what will they obtain? What can he give? And I will reiterate. Brother Mergen.

favorite saying, we can't give to others what we do not possess and know ourselves. Now, with this, brothers and sisters, it helps us to, I hope and pray it does, help us to realize our great responsibility and has been brought out in meetings thus far. We have to know Brother Helmut said, we have to know how to teach our families or we can't teach them. Now, I feel to repent and to do better, my dear brothers and sisters, and with your faith and prayers, I humbly pray that you will have interest in me and I will pray for the Lord to bless the honest in heart and I strive to be honest because upon the earth will be built up.

on truth and faith that will prevail in you. And I am grateful for the lives of these men and I humbly pray that our Heavenly Father will bless and sustain and uphold them and give them every righteous desire of their hearts because they have a great work to do. And we have just as great a work to support them.

We need to be just as sincere and prayerful and dedicated in our responsibilities as anyone upon the face of the earth. It's an individual proposition, we know that. A moral fight. We have many of the comforts of life about us, but we have a moral fight, my dear brothers and sisters, that has never been before a people before on the earth.

that I know of. So it behooves us to improve our lives and to sustain these servants and these apostles of our Heavenly Father. I bear my testimony to this end, my dear folks, and pray that we will be united in faith and in every principle of the gospel that we might support them.

That this work might prosper and grow and cities might be built and dry and established in the earth. Right and truth might be established. I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.