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  • Adjustments to Strengthen Youth

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    Adjustments to the young men’s programs Organizational changes: youth are being asked to take more individual responsibility at earlier ages. No young men’s presidency at the ward and stake level. The bishop will work with the priests; first counselor helps with teachers; ppl popsecond counselor helps with deacons. Others will still be called to assist…

  • Great Love for Our Father’s Children

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    I liked what I was hearing but I was too busy with breakfast to piece together the topic of the talk. I did notice a comment about husband and wife working together as equals and a section about using media.

  • Deep and Lasting Conversion to Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

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    Starting in January 2019 we will have 2 hour church. Sacrament meeting each week followed by primary each week and alternating weeks of Sunday School and Priesthood/Relief Society with the bishop directing 5th Sunday meetings. Decoupling FHE from Monday nights. There will be a resource for gospel teaching provided to each household before then. I…

  • Prepare to Meet God

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    Many if not most countries are deeply divided about how to live life but I’m the church we follow only the culture of the gospel which sells for unity before Heavenly Father.

  • The Eternal Everyday

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    This is the second talk in a row about humility.

  • Foundations of Faith

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    Physical, mental, and spiritual development have mu<<ch in common. Physical development is usually easier to see than the others but they all have the same patterns of development. This has got to be the fifth talk discussing the outsized importance of daily habits to build faith. All important decisions are influenced by our knowledge of…

  • Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus

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    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…

  • See Yourself in the Temple

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    Each of us should see ourselves in the temple. Despite the challenges of our day, we live in a sacred, holy time. The availability of temples is what sets this time apart from any in history. Please don’t see the temple as some distant and unachievable goal. Make the temple the symbol of your membership.

  • Shipshape and Bristol Fashion: Be Temple Worthy—in Good Times and Bad Times

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    The adversary and his emissaries assert that we have a choice between happiness in this life and happiness in a future life which they suggest may not exist. Lehi teaches us that if there is no righteousness there is no happiness. Many people today believe that what is moral has shifted. Honoring the sabbath will…

  • The Lord Is My Light

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    As individuals we can thrive and bloom on a world that is hostile to righteousness if we are planted in the love of God. We must have hearts knit together on love. While we appreciate cultural diversity we strive for unity in {a culture of gospel centered love}.