Lengthen Your Stride

Lengthen your stride
Enlarge your vision
Change your sights
Fulfill a mission

Move out into the world
Opening the doors of new nations
That the gospel might be unfurled
Building in new lands...gospel foundations

Behold the end draweth nigh
When the Lord will prune His vineyard
Let us prepare for this last time
As the chosen laborers of His steward

You of the rising generation
Are the fulfillment of prophecy
Visit each clime of every nation
Go forth boldly and nobly with brilliancy

A Call to the Rising Generation
Elder Brent H. Nielson
Ensign, November 2009, 95


"I did not realize those many years ago, as we prayed for the borders to open and the missionaries to go in, that I was praying for our son. Most importantly for you of the rising generation, our son Eric did not realize that he and his companions were the answer to the prayers that had been offered by thousands of faithful Saints so many years ago. You of the rising generation are the fulfillment of prophecy that in our day “the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done” (Joseph Smith, in History of the Church, 4:540)."


“Wherefore, go to, and call servants, that we may labor diligently with our might in the vineyard, that we may prepare the way, that I may bring forth again the natural fruit, which natural fruit is good and the most precious above all other fruit.

“Wherefore, let us go to and labor with our might this last time, for behold the end draweth nigh, and this is for the last time that I shall prune my vineyard” (Jacob 5:61–62).