President Gordon B. Hinckley
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"If I may speak personally for a little while, I think no man has been blessed so richly as I have been blessed. I cannot understand it. I so much appreciate your many expressions of kindness and love."
Representing the church, "I have had remarkable opportunities to speak to the world through the generosity of the media. I have lifted my voice in testimony in the great halls of this nation" and been received by "men and women of high station."
But "I have also come to know the mean and contemptuous ways of our enemies."
We leave to God the judgment "that may come upon those who oppose his work."
This is a wonderful "season of history" in which to live. Latter-day Saints are a people richly blessed.
My first spiritual recollection was when I was a very small boy. I had an earache, and 85 years ago, there were no pills to ease the pain. My father gave me a blessing, and my mother warmed a bag of table salt for my ear.
"The pain subsided and left. I fell asleep in my father's secure embrace. As I was falling asleep, the words of his administration floated through my mind. That is the earliest remembrance I have of the exercise of the authority of the priesthood in the name of the Lord."
My testimony of the Savior grew on my mission to the British Isles.
"Since then my faith has grown further. I have become his apostle, appointed to do his will and teach his word. I repeat that witness of faith to you and to all who hear my voice this Sabbath morning."
Jesus is my friend, my exemplar, my teacher, my healer, my leader, my Savior and Redeemer, my God and my King.
