Be True

Here is the talk I gave in Sacrament Mtg. SCARY!!!!

Alaina could hardly wait to try on the jeans she had bought at a garage sale. The fringed
denim pants were exactly what the other girls in her sixth grade class were wearing.

In her room, she pulled on the jeans, happy to find that the fit perfectly. Hearing a
crinkiling sound, she slipped her hand into a pocket and pulled out a crumpled
five-dollor bill.

She stared at it, hardly able to believe her eyes. Five dollors! That would pay for her
school field trip to the planetarium next week.

The five-dollor bill was more than just money. It was a way to help her family.
Ever since her dad had started his own consulting buisness last year, money had been
tight in her family.They had been eating out of their food storage. A half-smile
crossed her face. Alania and her brothers frequently joked about all the
ways her mom had found to serve cracked wheat.

The smile vanished as she recalled President Hinckley's talk about the Six Bs.
Be grateful.Be smart. Be clean. Be true. Be humble. Be prayerful.

Her family had talked about them in family home evening, and one of her friends
had given a talk on them in Primary. If she kept the money, she wouldn't
be true- not to her self or to her beleifs.She would not be clean, either.
Just the thought of keeping something that didn't belong to her made her
feel itchy.She knew she wouldn't enjoy wearing the jeans if she kept the money.

Alaina thought of the other Bs. Stealing - and that's what keeping the money
would be - wasn't being grateful, smart, humble, or prayerful. It went agianst
everything she believed.

Alaina unfolded the five dollor bill and placed it on the table. "I found
this in one of the pockets."

Mom nodded slowly. "What are you going to do with it?"

"Would you take me back to the garage sale? I want to give the money to the girl
who sold me the jeans."

At the garage sale, Alaina handed the money back to the girl and explained
how she'd found it in the jeans. The girl gave Alaina a puzzled look, then
thanked her.

Shakespeare said, " To thine own self be true..."

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to
all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe
all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able
to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report
or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
We beleive in being true. How very important it is to be true to our selves. Each of
us has a thing we call a conscience. We know the difference between right
and wrong. We don not have to be instructed concerning what is good and
what is evil. I think we know that. We know when we havedone the wrong thing, and
we suffer pangsof conscience. We know when we have done the right thing,
and we experience a sense of happiness. To be true to ourselves means being
an example of righteous living in all circumstances.
Being true to our selves means being honest. It means being honest in school. We cannot
afford to cheat or do anything of that kind. Suppose that you needed a life-saving
operation. You would want that opperation perforemed by a surgeon who had cheated
through medical school, would you? Of course not. We go to school to learn and to
equip ourselves for the work which we do in the future.
You must be honest with yourself and remain true to the covenants you have
made with God. It also means to act in accordance with who you are and what
you believe. It takes Courage. It requires you to be introspective, sincere, open-minded
and fair. Being true to yourself does not mean that you are inconsiderate or disrecpectful
of others. It means that you will not let others define you, make decisions for you
that you should make for yourself. Gordon B. Hinckely said we must be true to the very
best that is in us. Be true to one another. Look for the good in those around you,
and emphasize that good. Never go around gossiping about your associates or
speaking unkind words concerning them. Such words will only back fire to hurt you.
Reach out to help one another. All of us need help from time to time. We need
encouragement. We need friends who will stand by us through thick and thin.
Be true to our Eternal Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Never forget
who you are. You are in very deed a child of God. He is your Eternal Father.
He loves you. You can go to him in prayer. Being true we can walk before our
Heavenly Father in faith. As President Hinckley stated, you can " walk in faith before
Him with with you heads high, proud of your membership in this great
cause and kingdom which he has restored to the earth in this, the last dispensation of
the fullness of times." We will gain wonderful blessings as we walk in faith before the
Lord,live up to our tremendous inheritance, and live true to the teachings of the Church.
May I repeat, "You know what is right and you know what is wrong. You know
when you are doing theproper thing. You know when you are giving strength to
the right cause." And that was said by President
Gordon B. Hinckely.