"Of the People, By the People and For the People!"

As we approach this coming Tuesday, November 6th election day, I hope we all will realize the gravity of this day. It will be a fork in the road, not only for the American people, but for the Mormon people. This very well can be one of the most important days and events since the day the boy prophet entered a sacred grove and asked the question "Which of all the churches are right?"

I suppose that there are many good men in this nation that are qualified and capable of running this nation, that can help us pull out of this economic and social mess our county is currently in. But I don't think there will ever be another time or a place in which the work of the Lord can go forward boldly like never before, than having this opportunity for a member of our Church, one who, in my opinion espouses the true standards of God, to lead by example and open the door wide for immense interest in our Church.

I don't know how the election will turn out this Tuesday, but it is my hope and prayer that the right man will be elected our next President of the United States.

I've thought a lot recently about what our founding fathers sacrificed to create this free land of liberty, and what they are doing right now to insure that our country and it's constitution is preserved in freedom. Many years ago in a sacred St George Temple room, they appeared to Wilford Woodruff, and demanded their temple work be completed. I can't help but think they are involved in this election and working with Mitt Romney. They have an important stake in this.

This fight for liberty and the freedom of the people (Free Agency) has been going on since our pre-mortal life. It continues today. Satan would have us lose this precious gift, and force us to follow a government that is headed towards the disintegration of the family, the killing of life before birth, and taking away our religious freedoms of prayer and God.

I think Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is just as pertinent today as it was in 1863. Although his address had a civil war theme, if you translate it to today's situation, you'll see the value of his message for us here and now:

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

This Tuesday, as you cast your ballot, know that you are participating in a great event in Church history, when the "Elders of the church will step in and save the Constitution from ruin."

Love, Dad