President Thomas S. Monson
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"Many years ago, on an assignment to Tahiti, I was talking to our mission president, Pres. Raymond Baudlin, about the Tahitian people." They are known as great seafaring people. He explained the weather may be terrible, their vessels leaky, but they pray and go.
Latter-day Saints need to pray and act. Both are important.
Passages from First Nephi portray beautifully the need to go and do. Said Nephi, "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them."
Remember the commandment. Remember the response. Remember the outcome.
"From the movie, 'Shenandoah,' come the spoken words which inspire: 'If we don't try, we don't do; and if we don't do, then why are we here?'" Should anyone feel inadequate, let the divine truth be remembered, "With God all things are possible."
"Brethren, whatever our calling, regardless of our fears or anxieties, let us pray and then go and do, remembering the words of the Master, even the Lord Jesus Christ, who promised: 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.'
"In the Epistle of James we are counseled, 'Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.' Let us, as a mighty body of priesthood, be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Let us pray, then let us go and do."
