In the closing hours of the Savior’s ministry, He went to the Mount of Olives into a garden called Gethsemane and invited His disciples to wait.¹ Now alone, He petitioned His Father, “If thou be willing, remove this cup from me.”² Being in agony, His suffering caused Him, “even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, … and would that [He] might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink.”³ Yet in the moment of deep despair, the Savior did not shrink “but partook and finished [His] preparations unto the children of men.”⁴

As the Only Begotten of the Father, Jesus Christ had power over death, pain, and suffering but did not shrink. He fulfilled the covenant He had made with His Father and, in doing so, manifested a Christlike attribute increasingly important in the world in which we live—the attribute of integrity. He remained true to God, to each of us, and to His divine identity.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2024/04/17gerard?lang=eng

Sacrament Meeting Program

Presiding: Bishop St. Felix
Conducting: Brother Alan Riker

Opening Hymn: #243 – Let Us All Press On
Invocation: Colton Stoner

Sacrament Hymn: #184 – Upon the Cross of Calvary

Speaker: Brother Kellen Christensen
Speaker: Brother Chris Balmforth
Intermediate Hymn: Children’s Songbook 78 – I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus
Speaker: Sister Chantel Simpson

Closing Hymn: #158 – Before Thee Lord, I Bow My Head
Benediction: By Invitation