I would hope this younger generation would have a sense of how much we care about them,

how much we're working to help them and what we're investing.

Every kind of resource, including time and prayer and tears and love

and everything that we can bring to pass.

So I would say to that generation, to this generation,

that we care about so much.

Our manifestations, indications of concern and care

and interest in love are just a fraction

of what your Heavenly Father feels for you and the Savior who gave his life for you and the Holy Spirit

who can and wants to be with you continually. Those things are real. Those are the basic fundamental

truths of our existence. For me, the most fundamental really is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The fact of his resurrection is proof of all the rest.

This is John Ryan Jensen, editor of the Church News. Welcome to the Church News podcast.

Today we're taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news and events of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In this special episode of the Church News podcast, guest host Sherry Dew, Executive Vice President of Deseret Management Corp, and a former member of the Relief Society General Presidency, sits down with Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Elder Clark G. Gilbert, a General Authority 70 and Commissioner of Church Education, to talk about the scope of the church education system and the church's commitment to both spiritual and

educational growth among the rising generation.

Well, thank you, brethren, for the chance to visit today.

We're thrilled to have the privilege.

So thank you for setting aside some time.

You certainly have better things to do than this, but we're grateful that you would

you'd have this conversation.

Let's start by setting the stage if we could.

Maybe getting the lay of the land, you both have very significant responsibility for church

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