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Diligence — Henry B. Eyring

A Way of Life, Henry B. Eyring

The other experience that led me to speak of diligence to you tonight was watching a man near the end of his priesthood service in this life. He had been a bishop twice. His first call as a bishop, years before I met him, had been when he was young. Now he was old, released for the second time as a bishop. His increasing physical limitations made any priesthood service very difficult.

Yet he had a plan to act in diligence. He sat every Sunday he could get to church near the row nearest the door where most of the people would enter for the sacrament meeting. He got there early to be sure a seat was vacant. Each person arriving could see his look of love and welcome, just as they did when he sat on the stand as their bishop. His influence warmed and lifted us because we knew something of the price he paid to serve. His task as a bishop was finished; his priesthood service did not end.

Excerpt from Henry B. Eyring’s April 2010, General Conference (Priesthood Session) address, Act In All Diligence.” Henry B. Eyring is Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. View his entire address here.