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The Power to Change | Ruth Lybbert Renlund | 2019

As we link ourselves to the Savior’s name, we gain the power to change for the better. And as we gain this power to change, we can become more like Him. This speech was given on December 3, 2019. Read the speech here: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ruth-l... Read more about Ruth L. Renlund here: https://speeches.byu.edu/speakers/rut... Subscribe to BYU Speeches for the latest videos:    / @byuspeeches   Read and listen to more BYU Speeches here: https://speeches.byu.edu/ Follow BYU Speeches: Facebook:   / byuspeeches   Twitter:   / byuspeeches   Instagram:   / byuspeeches   Pinterest:   / byuspeeches   © Brigham Young University. All rights reserved. Good morning, brothers and sisters, I am delighted to be here with you today. I appreciate the beautiful music, singing praises to our Heavenly Father for the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. The world you were raised in and live in today is full of superheroes. They are on movie and television screens, they fill the pages of comic books, and they consume much of our popular culture. Now perhaps you have engaged in conversations with friends trying to identify which is your favorite superhero and what superpower you would most like to have. Maybe you would like to be Elastigirl, with the ability to reach around corners and hug a roomful of people. Or maybe Superman is more your style, with superhuman vision, agility, and speed. Who couldn’t use that most days? Well, these characters and their powers are of course fictional. But have you wondered what your spiritual “superpower” is? You can have a superpower greater than that of any fictional power ever conceived. You can have God’s power in your life—the ultimate and very real superpower. In the October 2019 general conference, President Russell M. Nelson taught that God’s power flows from priesthood covenants and that understanding this will change your life.1 God’s power, the power of godliness, is the power to change. With God’s help we can change from women and men driven by carnal desires and selfish concerns to holy women and holy men prepared to enter the kingdom of God. We change little by little by making and keeping priesthood covenants. Priesthood covenants are the way we receive the Savior’s Atonement into our lives. Let’s consider, for a moment, the power we receive through the covenant of baptism and the sacramental covenants. When we are baptized, we covenant to be disciples of Jesus Christ and to be members of His Church. Our understanding of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ enlarges when we prepare for and worthily partake of the sacrament. Prayers offered on the sacrament each week help us understand that partaking of the bread and drinking the water is more than renewing our covenant at baptism. We witness anew that we “are willing to take upon” us His name “and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given [us].” When we make this covenant, we have this promise that we “may always have his Spirit to be with [us].”2 We can receive the power and encouragement to change as we witness to God, our Father, that we are willing to take upon ourselves the name of Jesus Christ. When we take upon us the name of Jesus Christ, we identify ourselves with Him as His disciple. We link ourselves with His name. Linking ourselves with His name helps us identify with Him and changes us as we take on His attributes and characteristics. Let me explain how this change can happen with an example involving a man who changed his attitude and behavior because his name became linked with that of Russell M. Nelson. Not too long ago, Elder Renlund and I had an opportunity to attend a special meeting that was hosted by the president of the University of Utah. A special position was being created in the department of surgery that was being funded by significant financial donations from many individuals. Such an academic position is called an endowed chair. This endowed chair was designated for the division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and was being named for Russell M. Nelson and his late wife, Dantzel W. Nelson. The large financial endowment of the position, or chair, ensures that whoever is chosen to hold the chair will have funding for his or her research efforts in perpetuity. It is a great honor and benefit for the one who is appointed to the chair and an honor for the one after whom it is named.