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This devotional address entitled Stronger and Closer Connection to God through Multiple

Covenants was given on March 5th of 2024 by Dale G. Renlund, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Brothers and sisters, thank you for being here. Thank you for your faith, your faithfulness,

thank you for your goodness and your examples.

I'm very grateful for the choir that we've heard the chorus as they sang about our Lord.

Your Redeemer and my Redeemer, your Savior and my Savior and my Savior are kind wives, heavenly friend.

I'm grateful for them and I'm grateful for those who have made this event possible.

Today I've invited Brother Gabriel, Abellio, sister Emma Ray Francis, and sister Kate McConlogg, who are seated here to my left, to help

me introduce my topic. So they're going to stand, they're going to wave at you, they're going to snigger at you,

and then for right now, go ahead and have a seat now, that'd be fine.

For this demonstration, I want you to consider that these three individuals represent all the children of God who have come to the earth.

As such, their beloved of God and guaranteed immortality because of the Savior's resurrection.

They need to do nothing for these blessings to be realized.

But they don't want to simply remain beloved children of God.

They want to grow up and become co-inheritors with Jesus Christ of all that Heavenly Father

has.

And they don't want to simply be guaranteed immortality. They want to receive

eternal life, the kind of life Heavenly Father has. For these additional

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