This devotional address entitled Building Upon the Rock was given on March 10th of 2009 by J.E. Jensen, then a member of the Presidency of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Sister Jensen and I are thankful to be here today.

We feel a debt of gratitude to the administration, faculty, and staff of this great university.

To have studied and taught here and are among the great experiences of our lives, and now they are the memories we treasure.

Three of our four sons and a daughter-in-law are BYU graduates.

No one who knows the scriptures, specifically the prophecies concerning the latter days, is surprised by the events in the world.

We do live in the perilous, stormy times prophesied, and we see the fulfillment of the prophecy to Joseph Smith that all things shall be in commotion, and surely men's hearts shall fail them, for fear shall come upon all people.