Church President Dallin H. Oaks said during the closing session Sunday that the path to peace inevitably leads through Jesus.

“Truly, Jesus Christ is the way to peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come,” he said. “He knows and loves each of us perfectly, and invites us to walk with Him, abide in Him, and follow His example of ministering to others one by one in charity and love. We have been reminded of the central role of marriage and families in our Heavenly Father’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children. May we demonstrate the pure love of Christ in our families, in our communities, and in all of our interactions with God’s children.”

During his first address Sunday as part of the Morning Session, Oaks also spoke of the need to be peacemakers.

“How can one person be a peacemaker?” he said. “A bishop who seeks to heal a troubled marriage or resolve a personal controversy is working for peace. Young men and women are peacemakers when they forgo the temporary pleasure of self-gratifying activities and involve themselves in service projects and other acts of kindness.

“Persons who seek to reduce human suffering and persons who work to promote understanding among different peoples are also important workers for peace. So are faithful mothers and fathers who lovingly care for their own children or shelter foster children and raise them in righteousness rather than leave them to be scarred and twisted by the sins of others.”

He added this is especially true of missionaries.

“Our missionaries seek to be peacemakers. They preach repentance from personal corruption, greed, and oppression because only by individual reformation can an entire society eventually rise above such evils,” he said. “By inviting all to repent and come unto Christ, our missionaries are working for peace by helping individual men and women come unto Christ and experience ‘a mighty change’ of heart and behavior.”

Other speakers during the Sunday sessions evoked the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

This included President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, who is also acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

“Nearly 2,000 years ago, a small group of women rose while it was still dark and made their way towards the tomb where the body of their beloved Lord, Jesus Christ, had been laid to rest,” he said. “I have tried to imagine the depth of their grief. I can’t. I have tried to imagine their heartache, helplessness, and hopelessness. I can’t. Perhaps the question they all asked was, ‘How could this happen?'”

He said it must’ve been difficult for people to understand at the time what we do today.

“How could the man who had cast out demons, healed the crippled, cured the sick, walked on water, conversed with angels, taught the blessed hope and infinite glory of the gospel, fed multitudes and raised the dead — how could He, Himself, have died? Today, we understand better why the Savior had to die. We know His ‘dying, brought new birth through resurrection’s miracle.'”

Also speaking was Elder Thierry K. Mutombo of the Seventy.

“That day was filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored Jesus Christ,” he said. “But the doom of that day did not last forever. The despair did not linger because, on Sunday, the resurrected Savior overcame the bonds of death. So, no matter how dark your days are, please remember that Sunday will come if you faithfully keep the covenants that you made with the Lord.”

A replay of the Sunday sessions can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkNRKtQ8sxU.