The Christian is under obligation not only to bear witness by word and deed of God and of his reality but also to testify for God: that God has offered his Beloved Son as ransom and redemption for the benefit and blessing of an otherwise ruined world; and, in our day, that God has called prophets and Apostles, that he has empowered them with keys and priesthoods, and that his Church is once more on earth.
Of these things the Christian bears fervent witness at home and abroad, in private and in public, at all times and in all places. Faithful endurance to the end-being true to one’s testimony in belief and practice through the entirety of one’s mortal sojourn-eventuates in that redemption hereafter which the Saints of God have come to know as the blessings of the first resurrection, the enjoying and inheriting of eternal life (see 2 Nephi 31:20; D&C 14:7).