“The Lord loves you!”

"He Loves You," Alice Victoria Weston-Sherwood, Latter-day Saint Voices, Ensign, October 2014 https://www.lds.org/ensign/2014/10/latter-day-saint-voices?lang=eng&media=audio 
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I was sitting in the corner of the celestial room by the organ during the dedication of the Memphis Tennessee Temple. President James E. Faust (1920–2007), a member of the First Presidency from 1995 to 2007, had come to dedicate the temple. He and several other leaders were seated behind the microphone. A local Church choir filed in and stood behind them.

A young woman I visit taught was a member of the choir. Throughout the meeting, I prayed that she would receive what she had come for. She had confided in me that she came to the temple dedication that day to find out her standing with the Lord. She had committed serious sins in the past, and though she had repented, she still struggled to feel good about herself. She even struggled to feel good about singing in the choir.

I stared at President Faust, feeling that he, as a representative of the Lord in the First Presidency, ought to be able to do something. But how could I tell him, and how could he do anything? After the meeting, he would file out of the room just as he had come in, and there would be no introductions, no handshakes, and no words exchanged. I understood that he was busy and had travel arrangements, but still I prayed.

President Faust, deep in thought, looked at me for a while—the muscles in his eyebrows were knit together. When the meeting ended, a happy expression flooded his countenance with light.

He looked at me again and then suddenly stood up, turned around, and stretched his arm forward as far as it would go. He pointed directly at my friend. Then he said firmly and loudly, “The Lord loves you!”

President Faust’s gesture was small and simple yet so powerful that it could have come only from the Holy Ghost communicating to him what I could not. Those few words blessed my friend and continue to sustain my faith that the Lord is mindful of the details of our lives and “that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass” (Alma 37:6).

The Restoration led to technological advances

“I maintain that had there been no restoration of the gospel, and no organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there would have been no radio; there would have been no airplane, and there would not have been the wonderful discoveries in medicine, chemistry, electricity, and the many other things wherein the world has been benefited by such discoveries. Under such conditions these blessings would have been withheld, for they belong to the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times of which the restoration of the gospel and the organization of the Church constitute the central point, from which radiates the Spirit of the Lord throughout the world. The inspiration of the Lord has gone out and takes hold of the minds of men, though they know it not, and they are directed by the Lord. In this manner he brings them into his service that his purposes and his righteousness, in due time, may be supreme on the earth.

“Now let me say briefly that I do not believe for one moment that these discoveries have come by chance, or that they have come because of superior intelligence possessed by men today over those who lived in ages that are past. They have come and are coming because the time is ripe, because the Lord has willed it, and because he has poured out his Spirit on all flesh.”

- Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, in Conference Report, Oct. 1926, p. 117, as quoted at http://www.lds.org/manual/church-history-in-the-fulness-of-times-teacher-manual/meeting-the-needs-of-a-worldwide-church?lang=eng

Joseph Smith dictating revelations to Emma

Emma Smith "continued to be amazed at the process through which

revelations came. Years after the Prophet's death she said: 'I am

satisfied that no man could have dictated the writing of the manuscripts

unless he was inspired; for, when acting as his scribe, [Joseph]

would dictate to me hour after hour; and when returning after meals, or

after interruptions, he could at once begin where he had left off, without

either seeing the manuscript or having any portion of it read to him.'

("Last Testimony of Sister Emma," The Saints' Herald, 1 Oct.

1879, 289.)"

- M. Russell Ballard, "Marvelous Are the Revelations of the Lord," Ensign, May 1998, 31

Praying for others increases our capacity to hear and heed the voice of the Lord

"Praying for others with all of the energy of our souls increases our capacity to hear and to heed the voice of the Lord."

- Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Ensign, Nov 2008, p. 43