Sacrament Talk - Seminary

[23rd June 1996 - Sacrament Talk]

I have been asked to speak today about seminary.

While at the Seminary Focus evening on Friday I was thinking about what the speakers said about early morning seminary. How most go on to serve missions and get married in the temple.

Both my two years of seminary so far have been early morning and I have really enjoyed it. It’s not only the fact that you are studying the true word of God, but that you are doing it with church friends, who try to keep the same high standards as yourself. When you meet with your church friends every morning, it gives you a spiritual boost and wakes you up ready for school. But of course the perfect way to enjoy seminary would be like my new found email friend Wendy Molgard who lives in Utah. Her and her friends get time off school to attend seminary, but as this does not happen in England. Early morning seminary will just have to do.

Now there was a lot to cover this year in seminary as we were studying the Old Testament, but the story that sticks out in my mind most is that of Job. How he loses everything he has. His health, property and family. Even when his friends accuse him of having committed a terrible sin and that this is all a punishment; he still has faith and loves the Lord knowing he hasn’t committed a sin. Job prophesies of his own resurrection and that he will see God. In the scripture mastery Job 19:25-26 it says;

25 For I aknow that my bredeemer liveth, and that che shall dstand at the latter day upon the earth:

26 And though after my skin worms destroy this abody, yet in my bflesh shall I csee God:

I have a testimony that the church is true and that the seminary program is a great and wonderful thing. I hope that I will gain a lot in my next two years of seminary. And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.