If you are like me, sometime today your faith in God is going to ask you to attend a meeting. And if you don’t go, you’ll feel guilty. It’s going to ask you to sacrifice in the form of your time, your effort, and maybe even your money. Now I ask, is it worth it? I mean, all of the effort that you expend to keep the commandments, love God, serve others, save yourselves, your families, and all the world with you, is it really – is it really worth it? It is. Emphatically and absolutely, it is!

May I share the experience of one man’s small taste of heaven? In one of those dreams of the night that is more vivid and real than reality itself, he found himself in a holy and sacred place. He described his experience this way:

“I was led into a room where I was informed I was to meet someone. As I entered the room, I saw, seated on a raised platform, the most glorious being I have ever conceived of, and was taken forward to be introduced to Him. As I approached, He smiled, called my name, and stretched out His hands toward me. If I live to be a million years old, I shall never forget that smile. He put His arms around me and kissed me, as He took me into His bosom, and He blessed me until my whole being was thrilled. As He finished I fell at His feet, and there saw the marks of the nails; and as I kissed them, with deep joy swelling through my whole being, I felt that I was in heaven indeed. The feeling that came to my heart then was: Oh! If I could live worthy, though it would require fourscore years, so that in the end when I have finished I could go into His presence and receive the feeling that I then had in His presence, I would give everything that I am or ever hope to be!”

Now, I want you to know that someday every living soul of the human family will stand before the Savior and give an accounting of their [his] life. Our experience may be like this man, if we choose. Those who have in faith ‘endured’ – and I use that word deliberately – ‘endured’ the trials and opposition of mortality, and yes, even the meetings, will experience a joy, a peace, and a love that passes all understanding. Whatever it takes, it will be worth it!