Heavenly Father wants young priesthood holders not only to be "good, but to be good for something; to serve and bless the lives of others, and to become a benefit to your fellow beings," Elder Spencer J. Condie said during the priesthood session.
Elder Condie of the Seventy cited Mosiah 8:18, that "God has provided a means that man, through faith, might work mighty miracles," and recounted that Wilford Woodruff, as a priest and young missionary, claimed that promise.
Noting the account in Luke 2:52 that "Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man," Elder Condie explained how priesthood quorum and Mutual activities, carefully planned, provide opportunities for young priesthood holders to increase as Jesus did.
"Our youth activities should reflect our belief that 'men are that they might have joy,' and we should be willing to share that joy with others," he remarked. "He told of a conversation he had with a woman from another Christian faith who was living in the Salt Lake Valley. She said she and her husband worried about their teenage daughter, and that each Wednesday evening a group of several girls walked past their home headed somewhere together and had never invited the daughter to go with them.
"I said, 'This is your lucky day; I am in a position to get that problem fixed.' She readily gave me her daughter's name and address, and we made contact with both the stake president and the seminary principal."
Elder Condie noted that the Aaronic Priesthood carries the keys of the ministering of angels. "I pray that you wonderful young men will not only be worthy to receive ministering angels, but that you, like young Wilford Woodruff, will become a ministering angel in the lives of others."
He warned that Satan would desire to diminish their faith and dilute their priesthood power but that the Father has provided them with "providential protection, the Gift of the Holy Ghost."
