For just as surely as this director did bring our fathers, by following its course, to the promised land, shall the words of Christ, if we follow their course, carry us beyond this vale of sorrow into a far better land of promise” (Alma 37:44-45).                                                                                                                            

“Media is a powerful lens,” Elder Pearson said. “It changes the way we all see and understand the world. However, it is not the right lens to find and understand the truth about your divine destiny and purpose.”

“Truth is knowledge of things as they really are, not as we want them to be,” Elder Pearson said. “As such, truth is rarely popular, it can even at times feel hard, unbending and uncompromising. Truth withstands the test of time and eternity. Thus, it frees us from the consequences of error.”

The location is significant to Latter-day Saints who believe the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1820 saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, near his Palmyra farm home nearly two centuries ago. 

President Eyring closed the broadcast with a challenge to the youth to “come to know for yourself that these things are true."

Scholars are aware of numerous ancient document burials in stone boxes, and of many ancient texts, religious and otherwise, that are inscribed upon metal plates.  Some critics have described “reformed Egyptian” as a mythical language that never existed.