Patrick Kearon

If you are weary, or distracted, or feel that you have lost your connection to the Saviour, the house of the Lord—a house of peace and joy—is where to go.
 
Children, feel His peace on temple grounds. Youth, find Him in the baptistery. And to all of us, do whatever you need to do to receive and keep your temple recommend.
 
The Lord commands and blesses us with temples—including the Wichita Kansas Temple dedicated on Sunday—so that we can be part of His sacred and holy work.
 
Come serve your ancestors who have heard the gospel and are desirous to continue their eternal journey of faith in Jesus Christ.
 
Seek Him. Come to His house. He is here, and He has been here the whole time.

Jesus Christ lives and loves to lift.

As a teen learning to fly a two-seat glider, I learned the crucial skill in gliding is finding rising air, otherwise known as “lift.” You cannot see it, but you can see what it does.

Just as there is rising air, there is sinking air, called “sink.” It likewise cannot be seen, but it can be felt, and I quickly learned to avoid it.

During my journey of faith, I recognised that the principles of gliding I had learned in my teens have significant similarities with spiritual principles: We must avoid sink and find lift.

Spiritual lift cannot be seen or touched, but as we learn to discern and act upon the sensitive impressions of the Holy Spirit, we can feel it—as surely as I felt the rising air lift a wing beneath me.

When we first experience lift, it is wondrous. We may feel a soul-expanding lightness of being unlike anything we’ve ever experienced.

Pay close attention to the sweet, peaceful feelings that come when you choose spiritual lift, the rising forces that bring you into the Saviour’s loving upward pull.

Likewise, pay attention to the dim and dampening feelings that lead away from the Redeemer and His infinite love.

We can learn to live in spiritual lift. And when we sink, our gentle Saviour is there to lift us up as we turn to Him.

Your Saviour is your lift. He is your ever-rising air. There is no limit to how high you can climb with Him.

#GeneralConference

"Finisher of Faith" by Kelsy and Jesse Lightweave

As we joyfully dedicated the Phnom Penh Cambodia Temple this weekend, our eyes were drawn toward its delicate spires and then heavenward.
 
It is so easy for us to become distracted or even consumed with lesser things. A focus on the temple draws our hearts and minds to our Father in Heaven and to our Saviour. As we let our gaze be drawn heavenward in this way, we find the inward peace that can be so elusive in our busy lives.
 
The temple can be a constant reminder of God’s love for you and for all His children. Through sacred temple ordinances made possible through the atoning gift of our Redeemer, old wounds can be healed and broken hearts can be mended, on both sides of the veil. This is a house of miracles.

A truth I hope will sink deeply into your soul is that your best is certainly good enough, that you are loved more than you can imagine, and that it isn't your achievements that define you, far less that determine anything about your worth or how you are seen by your Father in Heaven and His Son.

Nowhere should our joy as a people be more apparent than when we gather together each Sabbath in our sacrament meetings to worship the source of all joy!