“Who We Are and What God Expects Us to Do” | Jeffrey R. Holland | September 1987
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Classic Speaches Podcasts presented by BYU Speaches, bringing you treasured talks from 70 years of BYU Devotionals. |
| 0:09.5 | Be sure to check out our other podcasts by searching BYU Speaches wherever you get your podcasts, or by visitingspeches.BYU.edu slash podcasts. |
| 0:22.1 | This devotional address entitled Who We Are and What God Expects Us to Do was given on September 15th of 1987 by Jeffrey R. Holland, then the president of Brigham Young University. |
| 0:35.5 | We welcome you. We want you to be happy. We want this to be your best year ever. |
| 0:41.7 | Even as we greet you at the university, however, I am aware that at least one writer |
| 0:45.9 | believes that most of what you need to know was suggested to you more than a dozen years ago. |
| 0:52.5 | Now, given the costs of a university education, such an assertion is worth investigating. |
| 0:58.3 | Consider his argument. |
| 1:00.8 | Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned |
| 1:04.8 | in kindergarten. |
| 1:06.6 | Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain. |
| 1:09.3 | It was there in the sandbox all the time. |
| 1:13.1 | These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things |
| 1:19.9 | back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. |
| 1:25.4 | Say you're sorry when you hurt someone. |
| 1:27.6 | Wash your hands before you eat. |
| 1:29.5 | Flush. |
| 1:32.1 | Warm cookies and milk are good for you. |
| 1:34.5 | Live a balanced life. |
| 1:35.9 | Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some |
| 1:41.6 | every day. |
| 1:42.9 | Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, |
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