Throughout the message, President Hinckley tells the new members how we (existing members of the Church) will help them. Here are some quotes that help illustrate how we are suppose to help new members:

• “We stand ready to assist you in any way we can”?
• “Unless there are strong hands to greet you, unless we reach out to you with love and concern”?…
• “We have the challenge of helping you to strengthen your testimony of the truth of this work”?
• “We rejoice with you in the gospel of Jesus Christ”?
• “We need you”?
• “We will put our arms around you and be friends with you. “
• “We will do our best to comfort you, to make you feel welcome and accepted”?
• “We love you, and we know the Lord loves you.”?
• “Come and work with us side by side as we grow and learn together”?

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As a footnote: according to the Church’s Member and Statistical Records Division, first-generation members made up 64 percent of the total Church membership as of July 2006.

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When dealing with such subjective questions, we often will form suspicious which we hope will answer our questions. These suspicions or theories may be assigned one of two categories:

• Things we hope for and want to be true
• Things we fear and wish not to be true

After such a suspicion or theory is formed, we will work to find evidence which supports our theory. But since human nature is so mixed and confusing, there will always be evidence for many of our suspicions. And because we usually approach our theories from a non-scientific point of view, we quite often find evidence to support whatever we are thinking.

This then allows us to gain an interesting perspective into our ways of thinking. Recalling my two categories for theories about what people think of us. If we tend to form theories that consistently fit into one of the categories, then we have some insight about what we usually think about things.

Now let me give a few examples. Perhaps I want to know if a girl likes me. I may think, “Maybe she likes me, I hope that she does.” In think case I will find evidence that she likes me, such as, she smiled at me today, or she looked me in the eye when she said hi. If this is the way I hypothesize about someone liking me, then I might be able to see qualities of optimism and confidence in my personality.

If on the other hand, I may think, “Maybe she hates me, but I hope she doesn’t.” Even though I hope she doesn’t hate me, my hypothesis is that she does. I then will find evidence such as, she didn’t sit next to me in class today, or she only said a few words to me when we talked. Finding these things will disappoint me, but they may lead me to conclude that in fact she doesn’t like me. If this is the way I go about thinking about whether or not she likes me, I might be able to see aspects of pessimism or doubt on my personality.

In conclusion, sometimes in live we will have questions about who we are or how others view us. Whatever our views are, our attitudes will help to provide the answers we seek. We also need to be careful and observative about what types of questions we ask, if they may be generally positive our doubtful.

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