We are living in the last dispensation of the fulness of times. We have more blessings spread among more people in more parts of the world than ever before in the story of the human family.
To have had the gospel restored in our time, for our benefit and that of our children and our grandchildren, is the greatest of all the blessings of "our time." We have so much to share.
Elder Holland spoke at Women's Conference at BYU May 2007, and he had this to say, "We are the people in the eternal scheme of things who must prepare the Church of the Lamb for the arrival of the Lamb. No earlier people in ancient days ever had that assignment. What a tremendous responsibility! This means that before this is over we have to look like His Church members would look and act like His Church members would act. This will require all of us to move closer and closer to the heart of the gospel, to true principles of discipleship and faith, qualities of the heart and spirit. In short it means we have to live and be, to actually demonstrate, what it is we are always so quick to say we "know" in our testimony meetings. Eventually that has to mean not so much of programs or external schedules and certainly not so much of temporal things or the distractions the world puts before us. As a people we must increasingly strive for inner qualities, striving for profound faith and deep spirituality, striving to live as disciples of Christ would live. That is the task for us and for our families in this time of "dispensational hastening."
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