Sacrament offers an opportunity to be forgiven
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The intensely personal experience of partaking of the sacrament can lead to the "sweet, clean feeling of a pure soul having been forgiven and washed clean through the merits of the Savior," said Elder John H. Groberg at the Saturday evening general priesthood session.
"Those who would deny themselves the blessing of the sacrament by not attending sacrament meeting or by not thinking of the Savior surely must not understand the great opportunity to have their sins forgiven, to have His Spirit to guide and comfort them," said Elder Groberg of the First Quorum of the Seventy. "What more could anyone ask?"He said that if all Church members took the sacrament worthily, repented and determined sincerely to better follow the guidance of the Lord's Spirit, "Oh, the life that would be given, the forgiveness that would be obtained, the spiritual strength that would be received.
"The light thus generated would cause Zion to shine forth brilliantly and would prepare a people pure in heart to be ready for the Lord's Second Coming . . . ."
