Follow and Go Right

Reading:   Numbers 33-36

**DASSE FAMILY BAPTISM**

Today I had the honor of speaking at the Dasse family baptism.  It was exciting to watch Duane, Angela, and their four children, enter the cleansing waters of baptism. My talk was on the gift of the Holy Ghost and, before I get into today's blog, I wanted to share an inspiring quote I found in regards to that gift.

Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorom of the Twelve Apostles, gave a conference talk in October of 2010 titled, Receive the Holy Ghost.  The address had great fodder for my topic and I devoured it; but one spot inparticular really piqued my interest...

 Several years after the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred, he appeared to President Brigham Young and shared this timeless counsel: "Tell the people to be humble and faithful and [be] sure to keep the Spirit of the Lord and it will lead them right. Be careful and not turn away the small still voice; it will teach [you what] to do and where to go; it will yield the fruits of the kingdom. Tell the brethren to keep their hearts open to conviction so that when the Holy Ghost comes to them, their hearts will be ready to receive it. They can tell the Spirit of the Lord from all other spirits. It will whisper peace and joy to their souls, and it will take malice, hatred, envying, strife, and all evil from their hearts; and their whole desire will be to do good, bring forth righteousness, and build up the kingdom of God. Tell the brethren if they will follow the Spirit of the Lord they will go right" (Teachings: Joseph Smith, 98). 

"If they follow the spirit of The Lord they will go right."  Joseph Smith was absolutely correct.  A perfect example of this came millennia before Smith's time.  Aaron followed the spirit of The Lord and he did, "go right."  Even in his last days...

NUMBERS 33:38-39

  38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month. 

39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. 

Aaron lived as a slave in Egypt, took part in the great exodus, trudged onward through the incessant murmurings of the Israelites, wandered for forty years in the desert, and survived to see the Israelites enter and accept the promised land.  He lived faithfully and died faithfully always doing as The Lord commanded.  At the end, Aaron did indeed, "Go right."

~Kipling