"You would say to the mountain, 'Move hence,' and it would move."

— Elder David B. Haight

Speaking of the spread of settlements during the days of Brigham Young — some 360 in Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, southern Idaho, as well as in Utah — Elder David B. Haight of the Quorum of the Twelve said Saturday afternoon: "I have become a product of that because my mother's family, when they arrived here, were sent out into Tooele to settle and then later on they were sent up into Idaho where a salt mill and a grist needed to be built.

Elder David B. Haight

"My family has settled in Farmington, part of this colonization that I'm referring to. My family was asked to leave Farmington, to sell their green acres and go out into southern Idaho where it was nothing at that time but sagebrush. Out in a little settlement of that kind, my family, my mother and father fell in love by the time they were 20 years old and ready to be married.

"Where would you be married? In the Logan Temple. How do you get there? You get there by buggy. How long would it take? Well, five or six or seven days. Highways and good roads, of course not. Roads made by wagons going over the sagebrush and through the bushes and over the rocks.

"To think of who we are today and how this has grown. And the blessing has come into our lives to have President [Gordon B.] Hinckley as our prophet, seer and revelator and to envision what is happening and what will be happening ahead of us. If we just have the faith to be able to continue to do what has been started for us and what is on the way and being done.

"All that faith. President Hinckley often speaks to us about developing more faith with our people. That faith is the result of our living the principles of the gospel, living the way we should and raising our children as we should and then seeing them grow and develop their character and personality in a way that they become an example of what we believe in and what we hope to do and hope to accomplish.

"You all remember the man who had a son who was a lunatic. He approached the Savior and on that occasion asked if the Savior would bless him to drive that evil spirit from his son and the man told the Savior, 'I've asked your disciples to do this but they haven't been able to do it.' The Savior blessed that little boy. . . . The evil spirit immediately departed and the Savior's disciples came to Him and said, 'Why couldn't we do it? Why weren't we able to?' "

Elder Haight said the Savior taught the disciples about faith, about what could be accomplished with the faith no greater than a mustard seed. (See Matthew 17: 14-20.)

"Little faith. If ye had but the faith of the mustard seed. I don't know how many of you have really seen a mustard seed. A few years ago in Jerusalem, we were in the car with a driver and he said, 'Oh, there's a mustard tree.' And I said, 'Let's see it.' We got out to look at that mustard tree. It had a little pod on it, and I was able to open the pod, like you would see on a locust tree and see those tiny little seeds, not much larger than a drop of pepper.

"You can imagine the analogy that the Savior was teaching the people. If you only had as much faith as that little tiny mustard seed. And I held it in my hand, I could hardly see it. If you had that much faith, you would say to the mountain, 'Move hence,' and it would move. If you had that much faith.

"God lives, I know He is real. He is our Father and I know that He loves us. I know that. And I know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. I have felt of that influence. I am a witness to it. I know that the Prophet Joseph Smith and all of the historical accounts that we have of what he did as the instrument of the Restoration [are] true."