Cobblestone 1st Ward

Dear Cobblestone 1st Ward,

With our ward’s primary program coming up in three weeks, I decided to focus this month’s message on music-specifically primary music. One of the talks given in this past general conference really resonated with me. It was “Tune Your Heart to Jesus Christ: The Sacred Gift of Primary Music” by Sister Tracy Y. Browning, Second Counselor in the Primary General Presidency. If you were not able to hear it during general conference, I invite you to go back and listen to or read it. In her talk Sister Browning says “Primary songs are sermons for disciples of Jesus Christ, testimonies to the truthfulness of the restored gospel, and prayers set to music.” In Doctrine and Covenants 25:12 we read… “For my soul delighteth in the song of the heart, yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me, and it shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads”.

Brother Jon Kleven

First Counselor in the Bishopric