I would encourage all of us to continue to read and study the scriptures, that we might understand them and apply in our lives the lessons we find there. I paraphrase the poet James Phinney Baxter: Who learns and learns but never knows Is like the one who plows and plows but never sows. Spending time each day in scripture study will, without doubt, strengthen our foundations of faith and our testimonies of truth. Recall with me the joy Alma experienced as he was journeying from the land of Gideon southward to the land of Manti and met the sons of Mosiah. Alma had not seen them for some time, and he was overjoyed to discover that they were "still his brethren in the Lord; yea, and they had waxed strong in the knowledge of the truth; for they were men of a sound understanding and they had searched the scriptures diligently, that they might know the word of God." May we also know the word of God and conduct our lives accordingly.