David Journal

Category: General Conference

  • Sisters’ Participation in the Gathering of Israel

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    Please note that anytime I use the word mother, I am not talking only about women who have given birth or adopted children in this life. I am speaking about all of our Heavenly Parents’ adult daughters. Every woman is a mother by virtue of her eternal divine destiny. In other words, as a woman…

  • Parents and Children

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    Children are our most precious gift from God—our eternal increase. Yet we live in a time when many women wish to have no part in the bearing and nurturing of children. Many young adults delay marriage until temporal needs are satisfied. The average age of our Church members’ marriages has increased by more than two…

  • Women and Gospel Learning in the Home

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    Part of the Lord’s current sharing of knowledge relates to accelerating His pouring out eternal truth on the heads and into the hearts of His people. He has made clear that the daughters of Heavenly Father will play a primary role in that miraculous acceleration. One evidence of the miracle is His leading His living…

  • The Joy of Unselfish Service

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    Sometimes as we serve, we get to sit in different seats. Some are quite comfy and some other ones are not, but we have promised our Father in Heaven that we will serve Him and others with love and do His will in all things. Thinking back on Victoria’s cake helps me remember an unselfish…

  • Divine Discontent

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    These prophetic calls to action, coupled with our innate sense that we can do and be more, sometimes create within us what Elder Neal A. Maxwell called “divine discontent.” Divine discontent comes when we compare “what we are [to] what we have the power to become.” Each of us, if we are honest, feels a…

  • For Him

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    As a young couple, my husband and I were called by our bishop to visit and minister to a family who hadn’t been to church in many years. We willingly accepted the assignment and went to their home a few days later. It was immediately clear to us that they did not want visitors from…

  • Believe, Love, Do

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    Solomon ended up disillusioned after decades of indulgence in his prosperity. (“All is vanity” he said toward the end of his life.) We achieve the abundant life not be focusing on our own needs but by becoming disciples of Christ and engaging in the cause of Christ. To have the healing influence if the gospel…

  • All Must Take upon Them the Name Given of the Father

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    Taking His name upon us means to make it a part of us or our character.

  • Our Campfire of Faith

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    Find joy in wholesome creativity. Keep the best of righteous traditions while seeking new and holier ways to worship and serve Him. Perfection is in Christ, not in ourselves.

  • One in Christ

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    The strength of the community of saints comes from the mixing of many people with a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. The combined society is different than any of the component societies that go into making it.