Elder William R. Walker
Of the Seventy
I love Him. I want to do all that I can to serve as He would have me serve.
My beloved brothers and sisters, it is with deep humility
and great appreciation that I stand in this holy place. As a little boy growing
up in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, I loved it every time we sang, "I'll go where
you want me to go, dear Lord" (see Hymns, no. 270). Those words, each
time we sang them in a sacrament meeting or Sunday School, burned commitment
into my heart and soul, that I always wanted to go where the Lord wanted me
to go, to say what He wanted me to say"I'll be what you want me to be," dear
Lord. That commitment seems appropriate to restate today.
I'm grateful for the sustaining vote of yesterday, and
with you I sustain President Gordon B. Hinckley and his counselors, President
Monson and President Faust, and President Packer and all of the Twelve as prophets,
seers, and revelators. I bear witness that indeed they are prophets, seers,
and revelators.
I love the Lord. I love this Church. I love the wonderful,
faithful Saints throughout the world who do all that they can to honor their
commitments and to live their religion. I bear witness that God lives and that
Jesus Christ, His Son, is our Savior and our Redeemer. I love Him. I want to
do all that I can to serve as He would have me serve, and I say these words
and bear my witness to the truthfulness of these things in the name of Jesus
Christ, amen.