To Seek This Jesus
“To Seek This Jesus”
President Quinn’s Weekly Message
California Santa Rosa Mission
May 25th, 2026
We have an exciting week ahead of us in CASRM. On Wednesday we will welcome 12 new missionaries to our mission. Sister Quinn and I have come to know them through communications with their Church leaders and parents. I am confident they will be strong additions in CASRM. I am confident you will extend a loving and warm welcome to these new missionaries.
We extend a loving “goodbye” to the 10 missionaries who will be returning home this week. We thank you for your honorable service in CASRM. We will miss you! We rejoice with you and your families as you return home.
This week in my message I share a scripture that extends an important invitation we should strive to accept and practice throughout life:
“And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of God the Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of them, may be and abide in you forever.” (Ether 12:41)
I love this counsel “to seek” Jesus Christ. I do not believe there is a more important ambition or pursuit we can have in life than to seek Jesus Christ. We have a unique opportunity during this time of missionary service to focus on building our relationship, testimony, and discipleship to Jesus Christ. Life will likely not present an opportunity like we have now to be singularly focused on serving the Savior. As we take advantage of this time to seek Jesus Christ, we will be blessed with new perspectives and spiritual strength that will help us overcome the challenges life in a fallen world presents us.
In one of his first talks as President of the Church, President Oaks shared four things we can do to come closer to Jesus Christ:
1. Strengthen our faith in Him “…focus on developing our faith in God and in the mission of His Son, Jesus Christ. Strong faith requires more than strong desire. It means daily trying, one step at a time, with prayer and scripture study.”
2. Increase our humility: “…increased humility draws us closer to Jesus Christ. This will help us overcome questions about the Lord’s doctrine. When we are humble, we can more clearly hear the Lord’s voice.”
3. Seek help from others: “…draw(ing) closer to our Savior is to associate with other believers. This includes discussions with trusted associates, local Church members, and other faithful friends.”
4. Be patient: “We are all a work in progress. We are all at different places on what President Nelson called “the covenant path.” We need to be patient with one another and, occasionally, even with ourselves. …wait upon the Lord, which includes trusting in His timing as well as in His promises.”
Please carefully consider and ponder this inspired direction. Ask yourself how you can apply each of the four invitations extended by President Oaks.
In our last zone conferences, I shared ways you can make the sacrament a deep spiritual experience each week. Several of you have shared with me how that instruction has blessed you. I am thrilled with these reports. President Oaks, in his talk referenced above, taught the following:
“Protect yourself with the weekly renewing of your covenants by partaking of the sacrament and with consistent efforts to live according to those sacred covenants. Those who have been endowed should include regular attendance at the temple. In sum, stay on the covenant path. These simple practices will protect and strengthen you.”
I pray your experience with the sacrament each week will help you “seek” and find Jesus Christ – that each week you will see in the emblems of the sacrament the perfect love your Father in Heaven and Savior, Jesus Christ, have for you. My hope is that this understanding will deepen your desire and commitment to be a lifelong disciple of Jesus Christ.
Love,
President Quinn
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