Ekder Holland to YSA

This Generation

Instruction by Elder Jeffrey Holland

Young Single Adult Fireside

Melbourne, Australia

November 18, 2005

The President of the Church appreciates your prayers, as surely as he prays for you.

Testimony “from me to you” that God lives and Jesus is the Christ and this is His church.

You live in the greatest moment of the history of the planet. I don’t know why we were born here and now, but this is the brightest hour in history – this is the best time and into it comes the restoration of the gospel with Priesthood, temples and missionaries around the world. I can only imagine the responsibility we have fro living here and now.

This time also offers the toughest challenges ever faced. The good and evil which has always existed is at a fever pitch.

I ask you to take seriously your moment on the stage and your role in the drama in these latter days. We need you. Were we to lose you and others in your generation, we would have to go back to New York and find 6 people and start all over again. When Brother Sybrowsky said you are the church, he was not exaggerating. You must carry it forward!

Every other dispensation was able to too keep working and keep sacrificing, not because they knew they would succeed – they knew they would not – but because they knew we could get it done. That puts a great responsibility on all of us. We owe them a great burden of success. We live in the dispensation when priesthood and apostles and temples, and all we are trying to do will continue and not be taken from the earth until the Savior comes.

A brief Joseph Smith Chronology

Event Age

First vision 14

Moroni’s first visit 17

Receives plates 21

Book of Mormon,

Church organized 24

Move to Kirtland 26

Zion’s Camp 28

Calls the 12 29

Kirtland Temple 30

Liberty Jail 33

Nauvoo City and Temple 34

Martyrdom 38