Holy Men

I had a very powerful experience this evening at a special regional priesthood leader training meeting on addictions. One of the things that impressed me the most was President Clark's concluding message. He shared this quote from the "Words of Mormon" in the Book of Mormon:

17 For behold, king Benjamin was a ^aholy man, and he did reign over his people in righteousness; and there were many holy men in the land, and they did speak the word of God with ^bpower and with authority;

Elder Clark told us that those gathered there needed to be the "holy men" in our land today. He challenged us to do whatever we needed to increase in holiness and promised us that as we do so we will be able to "speak the word of God with power and with authority." I think it cause all of us there to examine ourselves and inspired us to do better.