There is more to Being some one then Doing some thing

To Do and to Be work together, but to do is one thing and to be is a better thing. Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy said "The Savior often denounced those who did without being—calling them hypocrites: “This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me” (Mark 7:6). To do without to be is hypocrisy, or feigning to be what one is not—a pretender." So, just as they say, don't just do good things, be a good thing. When you become a good thing you are becoming more Christ like. So as you go through life don't just be close to Christ with your lips but be close to him with your heart. What are some of the ways you can come closer to Christ with your heart? The best place to start is to come up to him through baptism with the proper power and authority, or, in other words, by some one holding the priesthood of God.

What is the priesthood? It is the authority to act in God's name.

We learn about this from Matthew3:13-15, "13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be ^abaptized of him.14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?15And Jesus answering said unto him, ^aSuffer it to be so now: for thus it ^bbecometh us to ^cfulfil all ^drighteousness. Then he suffered him." Why did Jesus come John? He came to John because he was the only one that had the priesthood of God and had the authority to baptise men. We all need to follow Christ's example and be baptised by some one holding the priesthood so that we can be clean from all of our sins and get the gift of the Holy Ghost so that we can be led by the Hold Ghost and be a better person. When we do this we can become a better person and not just do good things.