Take upon You
My Whole
Armor
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Elder Henry B. Eyring
To Church Educators
…the troubles and the temptations our
students faced just five years ago pale in
comparison with what we see now, and
even more difficult times are ahead.
I have felt as many of you have felt that what we
have done and are doing will not be enough. We
need greater power to get the gospel down into the
hearts and lives of our students.
Our aim must be for our students to become truly
converted to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ…
True conversion depends on a student seeking
freely in faith, with great effort and some
pain. Then it is the Lord who can grant, in His
time, the miracle of cleansing and change.
Sister Susan W. Tanner
Young Women’s General President
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How can we as leaders write the gospel
message “in the fleshy tables of the hearts” of
our young women? Let me suggest four ways:
Desire: Young women must be hungry for truth
and learn to ask the right questions.
Repetition: Young women must hear the
doctrines over and over.
Learning by heart: young women must fix the
truths in their minds and hearts; they must learn
the gospel by heart.
Practice: Young women must do: they must
pray, repent, and keep covenants.
One more way:
Our youth, as well as us, must be
properly defended.
Doctrine and Covenants
Section 27
15 Wherefore, lift up your hearts and rejoice, and gird up your loins,
and take upon you my whole armor, that ye may be able to
withstand the evil day, having done all, that ye may be able to
stand.
16 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,
having on the breastplate of righteousness,
and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace,
which I have sent mine angels to commit unto you;
17 Taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all
the fiery darts of the wicked;
18 And take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of my Spirit, which I will pour out upon you, and my
word which I reveal unto you, and be agreed as touching all things
whatsoever ye ask of me, and be faithful until I come, and ye shall
be caught up, that where I am ye shall be also.
Elder L. Tom Perry
We were dressed in our home each
morning, not only with hats and
raincoats and boots to protect us from
physical storm, but even more carefully
our parents dressed us each day in the armor of
God. As we would kneel in family prayer and listen
to our father, a bearer of the priesthood, pour out
his soul to the Lord for the protection of his family
against the fiery darts of the wicked, one more
layer was added to our shield of faith. While our
shield was being made strong, theirs was always
available, for they were available and we knew it."
(Ensign, May 1974, p. 98.)
Apostle Paul
Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep: for now is our
salvation nearer than when we believed.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let
us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armour of light.