Dear Brother, *****: By authority of the Holy Priesthood in me vested, I place my hands on your head and give you a patriarchal blessing. I pronounce the favor and love of the Lord upon you. You are here in the world to perform an important work, a work for which you have been preparing, and to which you have been looking forward eagerly for a long, long time.

The Lord has favored you to be born of choice parentage, and to be taught the great saving principles in the days of your youth, even in those most susceptible years of your life. These precious principles are as seeds which will spring up to immortality, eternal life and exaltation in our Father's kingdom.

You are of the House of Israel through the loins of Ephraim. You have in your veins the blood of men and women who have made their calling and election sure, men and women who have suffered for the gospel's sake and have gained the great prize for which they came into the world. It is for you to emulate their example, to follow after them, to turn to them in your heart and in your feeling according to the mission of Elijah who came "to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children," that they may be bound together, in holy ties of fatherhood and motherhood, as brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, in the order of families which is to prevail in the Celestial Kingdom.

Set your heart upon these exalted matters, study them and find out the beauty and simplicity of the order in which mankind may receive a fullness of joy. You are blessed with susceptibility to the science of these things, and are to be a chosen vessel in the hands of the Lord in bringing about his purposes to receive and to declare his word. You will be called to fill important positions in the Church, and you will be given wisdom, and courage and faith and the dignity of these callings, that your name will be honorable in the land.

You will stand at the head of a numerous posterity, and to your increase there will be no end. From among your posterity will rise up stalwart men and women, who will take part in the building of the great and holy city, even the City of Zion to which the Christ will come, and they who have served Him will see His face and hear His voice. Then the great reign of peace will reign on earth. Look forth to and prepare for these things, for they will surely come.

The Lord will give you gifts and powers according to your needs. He has entrusted you with choice gifts which you are to develop to their excellence of usefulness and to place them on the altar of Zion as your acceptable bid for eternal life.

Remember to honor and bless your father and mother, do them good in every possible way and try to repay the loving part they have taken for you. Let these things sink deeply down in your heart; think no more of yourself as but a boy, for you were a man of mature understanding, who, as a spirit with your immortal understanding, aspired with all your heart to come and live here a few years to gain immortal maturity.

I seal you up unto eternal life to stand with the chosen and redeemed of the Lord in the glorious day of His appearing, and I do this by authority of the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood, and in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.