I want to ask my children and posterity to remain true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it is taught in the Book of Mormon and in the Bible. God is not an angry god. He is a kind and loving father. I have spoken with him and know. When his Spirit fills my heart the feeling I have is a deep feeling of His love. It is natural for us to run and hide when we think we have done something wrong. Let that feeling work in you to repent and return to God. He died for us. Don't you think he knows that we are going to need the Atonement? If your testimony of the Gospel is ever weak, or if you ever feel that you are not sure about the Gospel, rely on my testimony. I have lived enough to have sinned and felt worthless before God. I have lived long enough to have seen pain and suffering, both my own and those close to me, and those throughout history and throughout the world. But I have also seen the great goodness of God. I have seen his tender mercy. I know his tender kindness. You must pass through a time in the history of the world when faith will falter for many, even among the very elect. You will pass through times of great sorrow, pain, and suffering. Do not be troubled, neither be afraid. When I was a boy I used to fear death because I thought that it would be terribly painful. I have suffered enough pain to know that death is nothing to fear. We will experience pain in this life. No one is exempt. You will see terrible things happen in the world: mostly cruelty of human against human whether it be in wars, or in crimes, or in the growing greed that feeds off of the suffering of the lowest of humanity. Do not let these things weigh you down to dispare. God knew that his children of this Earth would be capable of such things, and so he sent his Son to take it upon himself. Let him take your cares. Do not take your eyes off of him in the midst of the storm. But if you do, turn to him again and cry out, "Lord, save me!" He will lift you up. Remember the story of Alma the Younger. Remember, in your darkest moment, these words taught by your father and grandfather.
Finally, because you have been obedient to the Gospel and to your parents, you have been blessed and will be blessed. Because you have been for the most part righteous, you will have a tendency to pride, a tendency to think that you earned the blessings that have been given to you. You may be led to think that those who suffer without the blessings of the gospel have brought upon themselves their own misery and that you are justified in ignoring them. No. To think so is damnation. Had the Savior thought such a thing, we all would be lost. If we think it, we might be lost after all. There is only one response to the foolishness and the waywardness of the world--love. Only love. In this we become as the Savior. This does not mean that we will be able to save all by our love anymore than the Savior will save all by his love. But, it does mean that we cannot be saved without this charity which is the pure love of God. Without it we are nothing. Pray, therefor, with all the energy of your hearts that this love might be found in you, that when the Savior shall appear you might see that you are like him. Go to the temple often with your sweethearts. Make covenants there with God. Be faithful to those covenants. There is nothing else to say. Nothing else matters. Remember that no matter what, I will always love you.