Doctrine and Covenants 57:1–5

“Sister Knight, mother of Newel and a member of the Colesville branch, risked her life making the trip to Zion. Polly’s health was failing, but her anxiety to see the promised land was so great that she refused to be left behind in Ohio. … Her son wrote, ‘Her only, or her greatest desire, was to set her feet upon the land of Zion, and to have her body interred in that land.’ … He later reported that ‘the Lord gave her the desire of her heart, and she lived to stand upon that land’ [Scraps of Biography: Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series (1883), 70; see also History of theChurch, 1:199]. Polly died within two weeks of her arrival in the land of Zion and was the first Latter-day Saint to be buried in Missouri” (Church History in theFulness of Times, 2nd ed. [Church Educational System manual, 2003], 105).

Doctrine and Covenants 57:3

President Spencer W. Kimball:

“It would be a fine thing if … parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so the boy or girl from the time he is an infant could look at the picture every day and it becomes a part of his life. When he reaches the age that he needs to make [the] very important decision [concerning marrying in the temple], it will have already been made” (The Teachings ofSpencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball [1982], 301).

President Howard W. Hunter:

“Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people. … Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience” (“A Temple-Motivated People,” Ensign, Feb. 1995, 5).