Whether by Mine Own Voice: Personalizing General Conference
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Trusting God and Man
In his talk “Trust Again“, Elder Gerrit W. Gong discusses how trust is lost and how it can be gained again. There were five statements in his discourse that jumped out to me on how to trust God and our fellowmen. The image above is of our son Sam after being buried in the sand…
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How to Reinforce Your Spiritual Foundation
In the Sunday morning session of the October General Conference, President Russell M. Nelson delivered an address titled “The Temple and your Spiritual Foundation.” In it, he compares the work being done to reinforce the foundation of the Salt Lake City Temple and we as children of God reinforcing our spiritual foundations. In this post,…
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How to Find Personal Peace
With everything that we have going on that can influence us, how can we find personal peace? Elder Quentin L. Cook discusses five areas we can focus on in his talk “Personal Peace in Challenging Times“. Looking at the five areas can help each of us discover where to focus to find personal peace. Love…
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A House Of Order
In “A House of Sequential Order“, Elder Vaiangina (Vai) Sikahema states “‘Sequential Order’ is a simple, natural, and effective way for the Lord to teach us, as His children, important principles.” He goes on to describe how God has created a house of order that helps us return to His presence. God has told us…
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Having Empathy
Elder Dale G. Renlund talks about how contention weakens us spiritually and in the eyes of others. In “The Peace of Christ Abolishes Enmity“, he describes how to put our discipleship of Christ first, especially when contention arises. One way we can do that is by having empathy. Definition Empathy is “the ability to understand…
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Who Writes My Story?
At the end of “Hamilton“, we get the song “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story”. The lyrics contain these lines “And when you’re gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?” (full lyrics). It goes on to explain that Hamilton’s wife Eliza took it upon herself to write…
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Self-Care
In “Daily Restoration“, Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf talks about making small corrections in our daily lives. These small corrections move us back to the covenant path. In the world today this is also known as self-care. Definition Self-care is the taking of time to work on oneself. There are multiple areas to work on. We…
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Faith, Ask, Receive, Act
President Henry B. Eyring discusses what we can do to increase our faith, and then to act on that faith in his talk “The Faith to Ask and Then to Act“. He provides a quote from Nephi in the Book of Mormon that has inspired this blog post. Nephi’s Formula I love the writings of…
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How I Hold Up My Light
The Olympic torch is a symbol of light for athletic competition between nations. It makes a journey from Athens to the host country’s cauldron. Millions of people line streets to see it pass. It is a light that is held up to the world. In like manner members of the Church of Jesus Christ of…
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Do I Have Christlike Qualities?
In his talk “To Be a Follower of Christ“, Elder Alfred Kyungu discusses four qualities of the Savior. They are humility, courage, forgiveness, and sacrifice. How am I doing in these areas? Do I have these Christlike qualities? Humility According to a Google Dictionary search, humility is “a modest or low view of one’s importance”.…
Whether By Mine Own Voice 