Category: General Conference
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Respect and Reverence
Reverence does not come naturally to children – they have to be taught. My appeal today is to parents, teachers, and leaders to work together to teach, exemplify, and encourage the standards of respect and reverence that will strengthen our children and youth and invite the spirit of worship into our homes and chapels. if…
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Revealed Quorum Principles
Our goal is to correctly use inspired direction from God and His prophets to maximize the virtues and blessings of the quorum and strengthen young men and their families. The work of the quorum is to increase faith in Christ, prepare and save young men, and eliminate mistakes and sloth in implementing God’s will. What…
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May You Have Courage
As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you – at this time of your life and in this world – will need particularly. That attribute is courage. courage to refrain from judging others…
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Come Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the Lord
The value of virtue has been given a symbolic color, like the other values. The color of virtue is gold because gold is pure. It shines. It is soft, not harsh or brash. It is precious. Gold must be refined. As you live a pure and virtuous life, you will be refined by your life’s…
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Be Thou an Example of the Believers
Thinking back to when I was a young woman, I recognize that I did not understand the magnitude of what was happening in my life. I did not realize that my participation in each and every Church activity was helping me develop a lifelong pattern and commitment to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. I…
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“Hope Ya Know, We Had a Hard Time”
When we go to our Father in Heaven in prayer to tell Him about our hard times, we may receive comfort and assurance. Without opposition we could do no good. Trials are natural. Some trials are tailored for our own growth and development. The incident I just recounted, while a difficult travel situation, was brief,…
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Returning Home
This is the invitation that we extend to all those who have strayed and to those who have not received the gospel previously. Through the years our family has lived in different countries, and in each one of them we were able to find within the Church the same feeling of warmth from members in…
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Our Hearts Knit as One
Principles of UnityBeing of one heart and one mind.It started as a discussion about what was true and became an argument about who was right.The gift of unity from our Heavenly Father cannot be given to us as individuals. We must achieve unity as groups (e.g. families, communities)Speak well of each other.The Atonement brings the…
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The Truth of God Shall Go Forth
No enemy shall ever have power to stop the work of the Lord.I wonder if there has ever been a year in which the membership of the church was lower than the year before. (My best bet would be in a year early in the history of the church when there was a large apostasy…
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Finding Joy in the Journey
Some changes are welcome, others are not. Some are unexpected, but most come slowly and incrementally. “The difference between the changes in my life and the changes in yours are only in the details.” “. . . that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have the time to do all that you want to…