We watched this video of the Salt Lake Temple restoration last night and we were left speechless at the painstaking, highly technical efforts to strengthen the foundation of the temple.
I see so many lessons in this video about how to strengthen my own foundation. Sometimes it will require chipping away, inch by inch, at old challenges. Sometimes it will require some intrusion on my precious ideas in order to affix necessary connections to higher things. It will require time, now.
I can’t take lightly this counsel,
We are sparing no effort to give this venerable temple, which had become increasingly vulnerable, a foundation that will withstand the forces of nature into the Millennium. In like manner, it is now time that we each implement extraordinary measures—perhaps measures we have never taken before—to strengthen our personal spiritual foundations. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.
My dear brothers and sisters, these are the latter days. If you and I are to withstand the forthcoming perils and pressures, it is imperative that we each have a firm spiritual foundation built upon the rock of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
Russell M Nelson, October 2021