17 August 2025
As we focus our lives on Jesus Christ, we will find our way home, enduring to the end and rejoicing to the end.
Sacrament Meeting Program
Presiding: Bishop St. Felix
Conducting: Brother Mayo
Opening Hymn: CS 163 - I Am like a Star
Invocation: By Invitation
Ward Business
Sacrament Hymn: #170 - God, Our Father, Hear Us Pray
Speaker: Brinley Christensen
Speaker: Nate Christensen
Intermediate Hymn: #1033 - Oh, How Great Is Our Joy
Speaker: Breanna Saxton
Closing Hymn: #89 - The Lord Is My Light
Benediction: By Invitation
Messages From General Conference
Our Heavenly Guidance System
By Elder Sergio R. Vargas
Of the Seventy
Jesus Christ changed my life when I was baptized at the age of 26 in my beloved Frutillar, Chile. At that time, my job took me across the ocean, rivers, and lakes of the beautiful Chilean Patagonia. After my baptism, I saw my work and my life in a new and different way, recognizing that truly “all things denote there is a God.”
In nature, salmon are born in the source of the rivers. At some point in their lives, they need to swim downriver to reach the ocean, where they find the nourishment and conditions necessary for their development.
But the ocean is also a dangerous place where predators lurk and where fishers try to catch the salmon with flashy hooks that imitate food but do not nourish them. If the salmon can survive these threats, they will be ready to use their powerful guidance system to return upriver to the same place where they were born, facing new and some familiar challenges. Scientists have studied their migratory behavior for years and have discovered that they use a type of magnetic map, similar to GPS, to guide them to their final destination with incredible precision.
We can all return one day to the heavenly home from where we came. And like the salmon, we have our own magnetic map, or Light of Christ, to guide us there. Jesus taught His disciples, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
As we focus our lives on Jesus Christ, we will find our way home, enduring to the end and rejoicing to the end. President Russell M. Nelson taught that “the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.”
Elder Sergio R. Vargas
