Category: General Conference
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That He May Become Strong Also
The Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods are connected and those who hold the Melchizedek priesthood can, should, and often do, lift those who hold the Aaronic irrigator as help them to grow and become greater priesthood servants than they had the vision to become before. If any among you are strong in the priesthood let him…
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Learn from Alma and Amulek
Alma was likely the most well known celebrity of his day but when his people were lifted up in pride he gave up his public office to devote himself entirely too preach the gospel to them.
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There Is Power in the Book
This is s series of modern stories that would fit in “How rare a possession.” We have begun reading the Book of Mormon as a family regularly and though the blessings of doing so have likely already started we will yet see greater blessings if we continue the practice.
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Emissaries to the Church
This story about Molly should be titled “How to perfectly NOT do Home Teaching.” First presidency letter from 2001 acknowledges that sometimes a monthly visit in the home of each family is not possible. Of course that isn’t the case in our ward. Lift your vision of home teaching to something better than a Law…
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Sharing the Restored Gospel
All Christians are under the injunction to share the gospel with all the world. We can all pray for the desire to help with sharing the gospel. We can all keep the commandments. We can pray for inspiration for what we can do. Our efforts to share the gospel should not be limited to our…
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Be Ambitious for Christ
In 1876, a renowned educator named Dr. William Clark was invited to come to Hokkaido to teach. He lived in Japan for just eight months, but his Christian spirit left a lasting impression on his young non-Christian students. Before leaving, he gave his students a parting message that has become immortalized in this bronze statue.…
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For Our Spiritual Development and Learning
When I was a young boy, my parents received a gift that became fascinating to my younger brother David and me. The gift was a miniature model of the golden plates the Prophet Joseph Smith received from the angel Moroni. As I recall, the model plates had 10 or so metal pages with words written…
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“Abide in My Love”
There are many ways to describe and speak of divine love. One of the terms we hear often today is that God’s love is “unconditional.” While in one sense that is true, the descriptor unconditional appears nowhere in scripture. Rather, His love is described in scripture as “great and wonderful love,” “perfect love,” “redeeming love,”…
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Look to the Book, Look to the Lord
I’d like to share a true story with you, a story that can be both an example and a lesson. It can show you how to get closer to the Lord and access greater power to resist temptation. This is a story of a young girl, living in New York, who before age three lost…
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Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus
Eternal life is the greatest gift of God and is bestowed on those who “keep [God’s] commandments and endure to the end.” On the other hand, eternal life with our Heavenly Father is denied those “who are not valiant in the testimony of Jesus.” There are a number of stumbling blocks to our valor that…