Eyring - "Always Remember Him" - April 1995

President Eyring speaks at conference for the first time as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He speaks of a time when he was asked to go to a mission conference.  He was picked up at the airport by two sister missionaries and had a long drive to their meeting.  As he want to get in the car, a member of the quorum of the twelve encouraged him to teach the missionaries while they drove.  As he get in the car, he asked them what they would like to learn during their time today.  They spoke about their desire to learn how to be more humble.  President Eyring uses this desire as the background of his talk.

• I have learned some things about their question since President Hinckley invited me to meet with him yesterday afternoon and issued the call to this sacred office. I think I could help them a little more now.
  
• The fact that they even asked meant that they had gone beyond being overwhelmed by their doubts about themselves to hope that if they would just submit, if they could just learn what to do, they could be better. If I had the chance again, I would have told them that. And then I would have given them just this one bit of counsel, counsel about what to do. I would have said just this: “Always remember him.”
  

He speaks of the things he has learned since the calling to the apostleship.

• Over the last hours I have come to understand other blessings from “always remembering him.”

President Eyring takes us to a memory of a family from his service as a missionary.

• I thought of a family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I met years ago: a father, mother, and two teenage daughters who belonged to no church but read the Bible together every day. They pondered the Savior’s life and his words. When we found them they had decided that Christ would have a church and that they should find it. They knew that it would have prophets and Apostles at its foundation because that is what Christ had left in his church in the meridian of time. They knew that the resurrected Lord had appeared to his Apostles. And so when we testified that God, the Father, and his Son, the Savior of the world, came to a boy prophet, Joseph Smith, that seemed right to them. When they heard us testify that Peter, James, and John appeared and restored priesthood, they knew that would have to have happened. And the Holy Spirit, which they also recognized, told them it was true. I realized sometime last night or early this morning that they recognized the truth, that this is the Church of Jesus Christ, in large part because they had always remembered him. Every day they had gathered to read about him and his words, and so they remembered him. And after they were baptized they were ready to follow the living prophet because they knew the Savior always speaks to his prophets to bless his people.
  

President Eyring shares his testimony.

• God, our Father, lives. His Son, Jesus the Christ, did the will of the Father and atoned for all of our sins. Because of him we will be resurrected. Because of his atonement we may be exalted. The Lord sent heavenly messengers to confer keys on his prophet, Joseph Smith. The Lord has called his prophet today, Gordon B. Hinckley. The Savior will speak to us and all the world through him. And if those who hear will take the Savior’s name upon them and always remember him, and keep his commandments, they will finally come to him and he will take them home to his Father and our Father, where we may live forever in families.
  

President Eyring is so humble as he speaks of this calling that has been made to him.  He speaks of his great need to rely on the Savior by alway remembering Him.  Those simple words, spoken weekly in the sacrament prayers, will open up the blessings of heaven to each of us.  I am going to try to spend more time in the scriptures, more time listening to conference talks, and more time in prayer to try to improve my daily time I spend focusing on the Savior.  The Savior can change our lives and remembering him more is a key step to changing our hearts.