The Real Elder Price, Part 6: The Dedication

December 26, 2011 by Margaret Blair Young

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On the first evening I met them at the Missionary Training Center, I told the missionaries that the French language would become sacred to them, because it would be the language they spoke at holy times. I told them that the countries in which they would serve would also become sacred because of what they would experience. In Mormonism, we believe that a grove of trees was sanctified by a young man's answered prayer; that a normal piece of land did actually contain buried scriptures. In a more personalized perspective, any place where our yearnings have found comfort and direction is sanctified. At the ends of our lives, we could map out our own "sacred groves"—those places in our minds or in our rooms where we met something divine and heard an answer to prayer, even if we didn't realize we were praying.

Note: This essay is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Elder Marion Duff Hanks.

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