“If you will always make yourself available to the Lord, you will learn again and again that God has a plan for you and will use you for His purposes in the lives of others,” Elder Evan A. Schmutz, General Authority, said at BYU–Hawaii.
“If you feel that your faith is buckling under the weight of an unrelenting and recurring personal weakness, draw strength from the reassuring words of your Redeemer, ‘be not afraid, only believe.’”
‘You are strong enough to hold firm and move forward, closer to Jesus Christ and His glorious promises,’ Sister Craven said during BYU–Hawaii devotional.
“We have the potential to accomplish some incredible — make that impossible — things in our lives,” said Elder Michael A. Dunn, General Authority Seventy.
Alignment with Christ “is at the very heart of how we keep our baptismal and sacramental covenants,” shared Relief Society General President Camille N. Johnson.
“God will reveal to us the truth if we are willing to ask and then do the work required to receive revelation,” said President Brian K. Ashton in the semester’s first devotional.
During a devotional on April 15, Elder Ulisses Soares and his wife, Sister Rosana Soares, answered questions on topics like trials, doubts and forgiveness.
“As we press forward, trusting in our Savior’s redeeming love ..., we will be prepared to receive all that our Heavenly Father has in store for us,” said BYU–Idaho President Henry J. Eyring.
“Do not be afraid to become more than you are — to do, to become, to overcome, to share,” said Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
In the last devotional of the winter semester, the Apostle taught BYU students about transformative technology and the transformative power of connecting to Jesus Christ.
Like Rafiki in “The Lion King” stirring the water and telling Simba to “look harder,” Brother Wilcox shared his hope that graduates will remember who they are as children of God.
Elder Paul V. Johnson taught BYU students that they, who were born not too long ago, “now are ready to right wrongs, do God’s work, preach the truth and make a difference in the world.”
