Category: General Conference
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How Can God Use Us?
In her talk “I Pray He’ll Use Us“, Sister Sharon Eubank shared ways in which the humanitarian efforts of the church have helped people around the world. As I read her talk, I reflected on the past year and the ways in which my family and I have tried to help people around us. Light…
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Who Or What Do You Love?
In his talk, “Lovest Thou Me More Than These“, President M. Russell Ballard relates how Christ’s question to Peter is relevant to us today. As I read and listened to the talk, the following questions came to mind: How would I answer the question? How confident would I be in the answer? Would it be…
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K.I.S.S – Keep It Simple Saints
In “Simply Beautiful – Beautifully Simple“, Elder Gary E. Stevenson discusses two elements of the restored gospel. They are divinely appointed responsibilities and the gospel is plain, precious, and simple. He goes on to give four accounts of these two elements. As I have stated before, one of the conference themes is around the everyday…
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How to be “Favored of the Lord”
Elder Moises Villanueva discusses how we should react to our afflictions in his talk “Favored of the Lord in All My Days“. How do we garner that favor? What can we do to be “favored of the Lord”? There are many talks in this conference that bring us back to the “Primary Answers“. It would…
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The 2nd Coming of the Lord: A Prophet Needed
In “Preparing for the Second Coming of Christ“, Elder Christoffel Golden discusses some of the things to happen during Christ’s second coming. One thing stood out to me more than any other. The need for a living prophet leading up to that event. Elder Golden quotes from the book of Amos in the Old Testament:…
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What are my 8, 9, and 10?
In his talk “The Things of My Soul“, Elder Rasband listed seven things that “prepare [one] to hear promptings, that lift[s] [one’s] sights beyond the ways of the world, that give purpose to [one’s] work in the gospel and to [one’s] very life . . . These things apply to all who seek to be…
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How Do I Know God Loves Me?
In “God’s Love: The Most Joyous to the Soul“, Sister Susan Porter asks two questions. “Do you know how completely God, our Heavenly Father loves you?” and “Have you felt His love deep in your soul?”. That got me thinking, “How do I know God loves me?” The First Great Truth Part of the answer…
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The Primary Answers
In Elder Schmeil’s talk “Faith to Act and Become“, he discusses how to be a better disciple of Jesus Christ. He does this by relating what many of us call the “Primary” answers. These are praying and studying the scriptures. Prayer and Scripture Study Let’s look at the phrase “Primary Answers”. For most of the…
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The Power of God in My Life
In his talk “With the Power of God in Great Glory“, Elder Bednar shares examples of people “armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory.” It got me thinking about the power of God in my life and where I have been a recipient and where I have utilized it. Missionary…
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Why I Go to Church
In his talk “The Need for a Church“, Elder Oaks discusses why having an organization such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is necessary. As I listened to, and read, his words the question I had was simple, “Why do I go to church?”. Why I Go to Church In my ponderings…
Whether By Mine Own Voice 