We Are All Enlisted

Have you read the talks from the Priesthood Session of the latest General Conference? Tonight as part of my scripture study I listened to Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's talk We Are All Enlisted. It is a powerful call to arms for missionary work.

While it was directed at the men, this talk hit me more than any other talk from those two days at the beginning of October. Could that be because I'm a mom to boys and so any talk to the Young Men about serving missions makes me pay extra close attention? Possibly.

Two quotes stood out to me, both near the beginning of the talk.

Number one, Satan, or Lucifer, or the father of lies—call him what you will—is real, the very personification of evil. His motives are in every case malicious, and he convulses at the appearance of redeeming light, at the very thought of truth. Number two, he is eternally opposed to the love of God, the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and the work of peace and salvation. He will fight against these whenever and wherever he can. He knows he will be defeated and cast out in the end, but he is determined to take down with him as many others as he possibly can.

As President Boyd K. Packer taught this morning, Satan cannot directly take a life. That is one of many things he cannot do. But apparently his effort to stop the work will be reasonably well served if he can just bind the tongue of the faithful.

If you haven't read it, do. Or you can watch/listen to it right here, without even opening another tab. It's worth the fifteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds.