Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah May 31, 2026

Sacrament Service 

First Speaker

A sister who is leaving soon for the Texas San Antonio Mission Spanish speaking spoke to us.

“Our faith in Jesus Christ needs to be nourished daily. It is nourished as we pray daily, study the scriptures daily, reflect on the goodness of God daily, repent daily, and follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost daily. Just as it is not healthy to defer eating all our food until Sunday and then binge our weekly allotment of nutrition, it is not spiritually healthy to restrict our testimony-nourishing behavior to one day in the week.” (Elder Dale G. Renlund, “The Powerful, Virtuous Cycle of the Doctrine of Christ”, April 2024 General Conference)

We should look forward to feeling our soul.

John 6

35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

48 I am that bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

“in coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives”, April 2018 General Conference)

2 Nephi 31:20

20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.

Matthew 5:14-16

14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Next Speaker

“While you are free to choose your course of action, you are not free to choose the consequences. Whether for good or bad, consequences follow as a natural result of the choices you make” (For the Strength of Youth [booklet, 2011], 2).

“All of our choices have consequences” (President Thomas S. Monson, “The Three Rs of Choice”, October 2010 General Conference)

Galatians 6:7

7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Spiritual nourishment does not fall in our laps.  We have to seek it out.

Alma 37:6

6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.

Faith is action.

Faith is endurance and not a one time experience.

Fifth Sunday Meeting

“Celebrating the Founding of the United States and the US Constitution”, President D. Todd Christofferson and Elder Quentin L. Cook

DnC 101

77 According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles;

Agency is fundamental to God's plan of happiness. 

The principles in the declaration of independence and constitution protect and promote moral agency. The documents were divinely inspired. 

Life and liberty are a divine birthright. 

Pursuit of happiness is the pursuit to be good and not to feel good. Or the pursuit of virtue. The pursuit of virtue is a right. 

The Constitution was designed to be a living document. 

Dnc 101:79

79 Therefore, it is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another.

The first amendment to the constitution was the guarantee of the free exercise of religion. 

That is also one of our articles of faith. 

Our loyalty is to the constitution, not to our rulers. 

We should pray for our government leaders. Especially, the ones we disagree with. 

“With the love and mutual respect enjoined by divine commandments, we need to find ways to learn from one another and to reinforce the common insights that hold us together in a stable, pluralist society.” (President Dallin H Oaks, address at Sapienza University.)

“Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (On October 11, 1798, John Adams wrote to the Massachusetts Militia)

Judges 21

25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Covenant keeping relationship with God will bring true lasting joy. 

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah May 24, 2026

Sacrament Service

First Speaker

The speaker gave a brief history of President Oaks’ life.

Next Speaker

A sister missionary from Wasilla, Alaska spoke to us.

She mentioned the children’s song, “I Will Walk With Jesus”.

“Our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, will perform some of His mightiest works between now and when He comes again. We will see miraculous indications that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, preside over this Church in majesty and glory. But in coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives”, April 2018 General Conference)

We never have to walk life alone.

Moroni 7

12 Wherefore, all things which are good cometh of God; and that which is evil cometh of the devil; for the devil is an enemy unto God, and fighteth against him continually, and inviteth and enticeth to sin, and to do that which is evil continually.

13 But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God.

Alma 26

12 Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.

Philippians 4

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Next Speaker

Everything has its own time.

Alma 32:28

28 Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.

DnC 18:34
34 These words are not of men nor of man, but of me; wherefore, you shall testify they are of me and not of man;

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah May 17, 2026

Sacrament Service

First Speaker

2 Nephi 4:19-21

19 And when I desire to rejoice, my heart groaneth because of my sins; nevertheless, I know in whom I have trusted.

20 My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions in the wilderness; and he hath preserved me upon the waters of the great deep.

21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh.

It is not enough to know that God is there.  We have to rely on Him.

Next Speaker

Moroni 7:42

42 Wherefore, if a man have faith he must needs have hope; for without faith there cannot be any hope.

Moroni 7:41

41 And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.

Lasting hope is not in worldly institutions.

“...the Lord loves effort, because effort brings rewards that can’t come without it.” (President Russel M Nelson as quoted by President Joy D Jones, “An Especially Noble Calling”, April 2020 General Conference)

Hope follows faith.

Alma 32:21

21 And now as I said concerning faith—faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true.

“...increasing your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ will bring you added strength and greater hope.” (Elder Neil L. Andersen, “Wounded”, October 2018 General Conference)

Ether 12:4

4 Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God.

“In moments of fear or doubt or troubling times, hold the ground you have already won, even if that ground is limited. In the growth we all have to experience in mortality, the spiritual equivalent of this boy’s affliction or this parent’s desperation is going to come to all of us. When those moments come and issues surface, the resolution of which is not immediately forthcoming, hold fast to what you already know and stand strong until additional knowledge comes.” (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “‘Lord, I Believe’”, April 2013 General Conference)

Alma 34

9 For it is expedient that an atonement should be made; for according to the great plan of the Eternal God there must be an atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish; yea, all are hardened; yea, all are fallen and are lost, and must perish except it be through the atonement which it is expedient should be made.

Jesus made it possible for us to overcome sin and death and live with God again.

“My beloved brothers and sisters, fear not. Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith.” (President Thomas S. Monson, “Be of Good Cheer”, April 2009 General Conference)

“We gladly declare that the promised Restoration goes forward through continuing revelation. The earth will never again be the same, as God will “gather together in one all things in Christ” (Ephesians 1:10).

“With reverence and gratitude, we as His Apostles invite all to know—as we do—that the heavens are open. We affirm that God is making known His will for His beloved sons and daughters. We testify that those who prayerfully study the message of the Restoration and act in faith will be blessed to gain their own witness of its divinity and of its purpose to prepare the world for the promised Second Coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” (“The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ:  A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World”)

2 Nephi 31:20

20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.

“Because the Restoration reaffirmed the foundational truth that God does work in this world, we can hope, we should hope, even when facing the most insurmountable odds.” (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “A Perfect Brightness of Hope”, April 2020 General Conference)

2 Nephi 32:3

3 Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.

DnC 38:30

30 I tell you these things because of your prayers; wherefore, treasure up wisdom in your bosoms, lest the wickedness of men reveal these things unto you by their wickedness, in a manner which shall speak in your ears with a voice louder than that which shall shake the earth; but if ye are prepared ye shall not fear.

“The question for each of us, regardless of race, is the same. Are you willing to let God prevail in your life? Are you willing to let God be the most important influence in your life? Will you allow His words, His commandments, and His covenants to influence what you do each day? Will you allow His voice to take priority over any other? Are you willing to let whatever He needs you to do take precedence over every other ambition? Are you willing to have your will swallowed up in His?” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Let God Prevail”, October 2020 General Conference)

1 Corinthians 15:20

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

“The Resurrection from the dead is the reassuring personal pillar of our faith. It adds meaning to our doctrine, motivation to our behavior, and hope for our future.” (President Dallin H. Oaks, “What Has Our Savior Done for Us?”, April 2021 General Conference)

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah May 10, 2026

Sacrament Service

Proverbs 31:28

28 [A virtuous woman] Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Mothers may not like our actions, but they love us anyway.  That is true for Jesus as well, but even more perfectly.

Isaiah 66:13

13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

John 19:26-27

26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Exodus 20

12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Next Speaker

“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. To you mothers in Israel we say God bless and protect you, and give you the strength and courage, the faith and knowledge, the holy love and consecration to duty, that shall enable you to fill to the fullest measure the sacred calling which is yours. To you mothers and mothers-to-be we say: Be chaste, keep pure, live righteously, that your posterity to the last generation may call you blessed.” (James R. Clark, Messages of the First Presidency, Vol.6, pp.170-185; Improvement Era 45:686-87, 757-59, 762-65; 767, November 1942; Liahona, the Elders’ Journal 40:194-203, October 13, 1942.)

“Of all the words they could have chosen to define her role and her essence, both God the Father and Adam called Eve “the mother of all living”—and they did so before she ever bore a child. Like Eve, our motherhood began before we were born.” (Sheri L. Dew, “Are We Not All Mothers?”, October 2001 General Conference)

“men have to have something given to them [in mortality] to make them saviors of men, but not mothers, not women. [They] are born with an inherent right, an inherent authority, to be the saviors of human souls … and the regenerating force in the lives of God’s children.” (Matthew Cowley Speaks (1954), 109.)

“The heavens are just as open to women who are endowed with God’s power flowing from their priesthood covenants as they are to men who bear the priesthood.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Spiritual Treasures”, October 2019 General Conference)

“When a woman—young or old—is set apart to preach the gospel as a full-time missionary, she is given priesthood authority to perform a priesthood function. The same is true when a woman is set apart to function as an officer or teacher in a Church organization under the direction of one who holds the keys of the priesthood. Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.” (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, “The Keys and Authority of the Priesthood”, April 2014 General Conference)

“I wonder if you sisters full understand the greatness of your gifts and talents and how all of you can achieve the ‘highest place of honor’ in the Church and in the world. One of your unique, precious, and sublime gifts is your femininity, with its natural grace, goodness, and divinity. Femininity is not...lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. It is manifest differently in each girl or woman, but each of you possesses it. Femininity is part of your inner beauty.

One of your particular gifts is your feminine intuition. Do not limit yourselves. As you seek to know the will of our Heavenly Father in your life and become more spiritual, you will be far more attractive, even irresistible. You can use your smiling loveliness to bless those you love and all you meet, and spread great joy. Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.” - James E Faust

Next Speaker

“we have heavenly parents, a father and a mother. The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother comes by revelation and is a distinctive belief among Latter-day Saints.” (Elder Dale G. Renlund, “Your Divine Nature and Eternal Destiny”, April 2022 General Conference)

“Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them.” (Dallin H. Oaks, “Apostasy and Restoration,” Ensign, May 1995, 87)

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah May 3, 2026

Sacrament Service

Testimonies

How do you know what you know?  Spend time thinking about how you gained your testimony and how you learned the things you know.

John 9 

1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah Mar 26, 2026

Sacrament Service 

First Speaker

“you have plenty to do, but it is not to pay that debt. We will all be resurrected. We will all go back to God’s presence to be judged. What is left to be determined by our obedience is how comfortable we plan to be in God’s presence and what degree of glory we plan on receiving.” (Brad Wilcox, His Grace Is Sufficient, From a devotional address given at Brigham Young University on July 12, 2011. For the full text, visit speeches.byu.edu.)

Ether 12

27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

DnC 17:8

8 And if you do these last commandments of mine, which I have given you, the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; for my grace is sufficient for you, and you shall be lifted up at the last day.

Because Jesus paid our debt, He can ask things of us.

“The repenting sinner must suffer for his sins, but this suffering has a different purpose than punishment or payment. Its purpose is change” (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, The Lord’s Way [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1991], 223; emphasis in original).

“The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can go home but that—miraculously—we can feel at home there. If Christ did not require faith and repentance, then there would be no desire to change. Think of your friends and family members who have chosen to live without faith and without repentance. They don’t want to change. They are not trying to abandon sin and become comfortable with God. Rather, they are trying to abandon God and become comfortable with sin. If Jesus did not require covenants and bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost, then there would be no way to change.” (Brad Wilcox, “His Grace Is Sufficient”, July 12, 2011 BYU Speech)

Next Speaker

We are not here to prove our worth to God, but to prove our worth to ourselves.

“Ultimately, then, we are our own judges. No one will need to tell us where to go. In the Lord’s presence, we will acknowledge what we have chosen to become in mortality and know for ourselves where we should be in eternity.” (Elder David A. Bednar, They Are Their Own Judges, October 2025 General Conference)

The five unprepared virgins believed in Christ, but they didn’t know Him.

Matthew 7:23

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Matthew 7

13 ¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

“Straight is the gate and narrow is the way” - Works/what do we have to do to be saved

2 Nephi 9

28 O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ – Mark Twain

“Now, how does overcoming the world bless our lives? The answer is clear: entering into a covenant relationship with God binds us to Him in a way that makes everything about life easier. Please do not misunderstand me: I did not say that making covenants makes life easy. In fact, expect opposition, because the adversary does not want you to discover the power of Jesus Christ. But yoking yourself with the Savior means you have access to His strength and redeeming power.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Overcome the World and Find Rest”, October 2022 General Conference)

We must earn gospel knowledge for ourselves, through wrestling with the scriptures and words of the prophets.

2 Nephi 28

30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.

Don’t put yourself in a box and don’t put God in a box, because of what you think you know.

Work to learn how God and life works.  Work to live your life within those bounds, so that your life works.

Elders Quorum 

Being present vs just being there vs just doing a fly by. 

We can connect with the Atonement when we perceive weakness in others. We can have a chance to reflect on our weaknesses and maybe work on those. It can also give us perspective on the other person's weaknesses. We might even find that we have misread them. Maybe there actually was no weakness. 

Healing

3 Nephi 17:7-9

7 Have ye any that are sick among you? Bring them hither. Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them, for I have compassion upon you; my bowels are filled with mercy.

8 For I perceive that ye desire that I should show unto you what I have done unto your brethren at Jerusalem, for I see that your faith is sufficient that I should heal you.

9 And it came to pass that when he had thus spoken, all the multitude, with one accord, did go forth with their sick and their afflicted, and their lame, and with their blind, and with their dumb, and with all them that were afflicted in any manner; and he did heal them every one as they were brought forth unto him.

Mosiah 24:13-15

13 And it came to pass that the voice of the Lord came to them in their afflictions, saying: Lift up your heads and be of good comfort, for I know of the covenant which ye have made unto me; and I will covenant with my people and deliver them out of bondage.

14 And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions.

15 And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

2 Nephi 9:21

21 And he cometh into the world that he may save all men if they will hearken unto his voice; for behold, he suffereth the pains of all men, yea, the pains of every living creature, both men, women, and children, who belong to the family of Adam.

Alma 7:11-13

11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.

13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.

We don't earn heaven. We learn heaven.  That is part of what “after all we can do” means.

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah Apr 19, 2026

Sacrament Service

First Speaker

You are never too far for Jesus to reach you.  

God is aware of the smallest things in your life.

3 Nephi 5:13

13 Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, that they might have everlasting life.

Next Speaker

He will never wear out reaching out for you.

Psalm 37

9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

God is aware of the smallest things in your life.