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you know if we pull the camera back and look at the university as a whole
and look at its role in its purpose in the kingdom
I think one of the things we can see is that BYU Idaho
is here to help generations
of young people learn how to live the gospel of Jesus Christ
to be educated in
things that will be a blessing to themselves
and to their families and equip them
to build the Kingdom of God
I think student living
plays a central role in that broad process in fact
I think what you see in student living is
a living reality of Zion
student livings principles
love, share responsibility,mutual respect
are in fact the principles of Zion
they are living Zion principles
in their apartment when they live student living
I've always thought that one of the great outcomes
that I'm sure that the Lord has in mind for BYU Idaho
is that generations of young people
will come out here and know what it's like
to live Zion and will know how to build Zion
and we'll go out to and student living
plays a central role in that process. You take love
crucial to Zion. You take
shared responsibility, you take mutual respect and you can see in them
what Enoch talked about, what Moses wrote about
the Zion of Enoch's time they lived in righteousness
they were of one heart one mind and there were no poor among them
and if you live student living principles in your apartment
and you really internalize them you will know
what it's like to build Zion. You will know what it's like to live
in Zion and I think that will have a powerful influence on
families, on wards,on stakes
on the kingdom of God.