A Handful of Meal and a Little Oil
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Sister Drusilla Hendricks and her family, including her invalid husband, are on the verge of starvation when two neighbors, Reuben Allred and Alexander Williams, independently bring them cornmeal after feeling prompted by the Spirit.
I began with a story of diminishing cornmeal. May I conclude with another. Amidst the terrible hostilities in Missouri that would put the Prophet in Liberty Jail and see thousands of Latter-day Saints driven from their homes, Sister Drusilla Hendricks and her invalid husband, James, who had been shot by enemies of the Church in the Battle of Crooked River, arrived with their children at a hastily shaped dugout in Quincy, Illinois, to live out the spring of that harrowing year.
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A Haven of Love
Bishop Victor L. Brown
- Presiding Bishop
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A father recounts the positive impact working at Deseret Industries had on his son Mike, who has physical and speech impairments due to brain damage at birth.
"The great blessing we have in our home is the oldest of our three boys. He is thirty-one years of age and was injured at birth. As a result of brain damage, his muscular coordination and powers of speech have been severely impaired. Mentally, he"™s just as normal as anyone.
"He has one of the greatest personalities I"™ve ever seen. Everything is okay with Mike. He"™s a grand sport, so grateful for everything you do for him, never complains. He has a great sense of right and wrong and is a ... (continued)
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A Haven of Love
Bishop Victor L. Brown
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Brother Jim Clegg, a Deseret Industries manager, witnessed a mongoloid sister from the Deseret Industries choir perform a solo at a sacrament meeting, expressing her love for Deseret Industries.
Brother Jim Clegg, manager of the Murray Deseret Industries, attended a sacrament meeting in his son"™s ward, where the program was provided by some retarded youth. The final number was a solo to be sung by a sweet mongoloid sister. Brother Clegg knew this young woman could sing because she participated in the Murray Deseret Industries choir, but little did he know that one of the seventy-year-old brethren at the Deseret Industries had been working closely with her because he recognized some n ... (continued)
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A Haven of Love
Bishop Victor L. Brown
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An elderly brother in a nursing home regained his sense of worth and eventually became a supervisor after being given work at Deseret Industries.
May I close with just one other experience. Let me tell you of one elderly brother who sat in a nursing home just looking at the floor day after day, week after week. Someone who loved him and knew about Deseret Industries arranged for him to come to work. He began by the supervisor placing a wide push broom in his hands, taking him to the end of a corridor, and having him push the broom down the hall to the other end; then turning him around and having him push it back again. This he did time a ... (continued)
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A Heritage of Faith
Elder George Q. Morris
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker reflects on his mother's valiant service to God, recounting her journey as a young believer, her struggles as a widow in a new land, and her unwavering faith and cheerfulness.
My mind naturally goes to my dear mother, to whom I pay tribute, than whom I can imagine no man or woman ever being more valiant than was she in her service to her God. She came as a girl fifteen years of age, a true believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ, to St. Louis, where her mother died, and she came on to Zion. At nineteen she had lost her husband and her first child, thousands of miles away from her home in England, in a wild, unbroken country. She entered into conditions that tested her ... (continued)
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A Heritage of Faith
Elder George Q. Morris
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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The speaker pays tribute to his wife, who has been sick and absent from him for years, but has always supported him in prioritizing his Church work over business and home, even when sick in bed in New York.
I pay tribute to my dear wife, who through years of sickness has been forced to be absent from me at sea level and under a doctor's care. She has been lonesome but she has always stood by me through all these years when I put my Church work first, before my business and before my home. She has sustained me in it. And as I left her ten days ago in New York, sick in bed, she would not have it any other way, and she stands by this principle.
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A Holy Calling
Elder Monte J. Brough
- Of the Presidency of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts the time when his family moved to Hong Kong for his priesthood calling and the emotional adjustments his children had to make, particularly an instance where his youngest daughter Kami questioned why they were chosen to move there.
A few years ago, I was privileged to be assigned to the Asia Area Presidency, with the area office being in Hong Kong. Our four youngest children accompanied Sister Brough and me to that fascinating city, where we lived for three very interesting years. Our children were accustomed to the wide-open spaces of western America, and Hong Kong required each child to make some very large personal and emotional adjustments. Many nights we sat around our dining room table in our modest 13th-floor apartm ... (continued)
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A Holy Calling
Elder Monte J. Brough
- Of the Presidency of the Seventy
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The speaker reflects on his feelings of inadequacy after being called to serve as a mission president by President Spencer W. Kimball and how Elder Rex D. Pinegar helped him understand the divine nature of his calling.
I recalled the day some years earlier when I picked up the telephone to hear the familiar voice of President Spencer W. Kimball, who carefully extended a call to me to serve as a mission president.
After the telephone call, I was troubled with great feelings of inadequacy. My wife and I were yet in our 30s, with a young family of six children. I remembered the deep love and respect that I felt and still feel for my mission president. Could President Kimball have made a mistake? Did they really u ... (continued)
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A Holy Calling
Elder Monte J. Brough
- Of the Presidency of the Seventy
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The speaker shares a story of a challenging taxi ride in New Delhi, India, with his wife, which underscored the unexpected nature of their missionary assignment.
This was reinforced just a few days later when Sister Brough and I were assigned to travel to India for a missionary conference. The flight from Hong Kong to New Delhi, India, was a late-night flight that arrived in New Delhi at about two o"™clock in the morning. Even at that late hour, there were hundreds of taxi drivers who wanted to provide our transportation. After selecting a driver, we began our journey of about 40 kilometers to the hotel. Even though it was late, the roads were crowded ... (continued)
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A Holy Calling
Elder Monte J. Brough
- Of the Presidency of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts an emotional moment singing a hymn with missionary couples in Beijing, China, and his wife's reminder of the various places and challenges where one might be called to serve.
I shall never forget the experience we had in June of 1993 at a special meeting in Beijing, China, with couples who were then teaching English in North Vietnam and Mongolia. After two days of training and inspiration, we closed with this familiar song:
("I"™ll Go Where You Want Me to Go,"Hymns,no. 270)
As we were singing, my wife leaned over and whispered in my ear: "But it might be "˜on the mountain height,"™ or it might be "˜over the stormy sea,"™ or it might be "˜at the battle"™s ... (continued)
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A Holy Calling
Elder Monte J. Brough
- Of the Presidency of the Seventy
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The speaker describes the feelings of divine guidance and rightness experienced by his family when opening mission call letters for his children.
On four different occasions, Sister Brough and I and our family have excitedly opened the envelope containing the mission call and assignment for one of our children. Each time, we have contemplated with excitement the various possibilities for their service. While preferences were expressed, the moment their eyes saw the words "You are hereby assigned to serve in the [blank] mission," without exception a wonderful feeling of good and right came over each family member. We each knew that a pro ... (continued)
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A Holy Calling
Elder Monte J. Brough
- Of the Presidency of the Seventy
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Years after the initial conversation, the speaker's daughter Kami, now 15, confidently tells a friend that their time in Hong Kong was not due to luck, but because they were chosen.
I never completely satisfied little Kami"™s question that night. Over the years, we have recalled that challenging evening when a small child was a bit overwhelmed with life. We have explored other scriptures and many other stories since that time. We have received the wonderful promise to those the Savior had chosen "that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it [to] you"John 15:16
That promise"”of answer to our prayers"”is directed even to a small child. This wa ... (continued)
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A Home Where the Spirit of the Lord Dwells
By President Henry B. Eyring
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker reflects on the feelings of faith and the Holy Ghost experienced by the attendees when Joseph Smith organized the Church in 1830.
On this date in 1830, Joseph Smith organized the Church under the direction of the Lord. It was done in the Whitmer family home near Fayette, New York. There were six members and about 50 other interested people there that day. Although I don’t know what the Prophet Joseph said or how he looked when he stood before that little group, I know what those people with faith in Jesus Christ felt. They felt the Holy Ghost, and they felt that they were in a holy place. They surely felt that they ... (continued)
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A Home Where the Spirit of the Lord Dwells
By President Henry B. Eyring
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker recounts the account from 4 Nephi in the scriptures, describing a time of peace and happiness among the people due to the love of God in their hearts.
You remember the account from 4 Nephi: 'And it came to pass that there was no contention in the land, because of the love of God which did dwell in the hearts of the people. And there were no envyings, nor strifes, nor tumults, nor whoredoms, nor lyings, nor murders, nor any manner of lasciviousness; and surely there could not be a happier people among all the people who had been created by the hand of God. There were no robbers, nor murderers, neither were there Lamanites, nor any manner of -it ... (continued)
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A Home Where the Spirit of the Lord Dwells
By President Henry B. Eyring
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker shares the story of Alma the Younger, who, in a moment of torment, remembered his father's faith in Jesus Christ, which led to his repentance.
But take heart from the experience of Alma the Younger. In his painful need for repentance and forgiveness, he remembered his father’s faith in Jesus Christ. Your children may remember your faith in the Savior at a moment when they desperately need repentance. Alma said of such a moment: 'And it came to pass that as I was thus racked with torment, while I was harrowed up by the memory of my many sins, behold, I remembered also to have heard my father prophesy unto the people concerning th ... (continued)
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A Home Where the Spirit of the Lord Dwells
By President Henry B. Eyring
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker recounts how President Ezra Taft Benson was influenced by his parents' reverence for temples, which was evident in their actions and habits.
Some of you have photographs of temples in your homes. As temples are being added across the earth, it is possible for many parents to visit temple grounds with their families. A few may even be able to attend open houses when temples are built. Parents can ask children how they felt to be near or in a temple. Every parent can bear testimony of what a temple has meant to him or her. President Ezra Taft Benson, who loved temples, spoke often of watching his mother carefully press her temple cloth ... (continued)
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A Humble Heart and a Contrite Spirit
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker reflects on the importance of repentance and forgiveness, emphasizing the difference between confession and mere admission after being proven guilty.
So many things have been said, so much good has been told us, that it would be folly to try to summarize or repeat, but I think that most of us will leave this conference with two matters principally in mind"”that of repentance and its reciprocal, forgiveness. The call has been made: Repent, for the hour of his judgment is nighRev. 14:7D&C 84:115 The Lord has said, By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins"”behold, he will confess them and forsake themD&C 58:43 I would like to point ... (continued)
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A Humble Heart and a Contrite Spirit
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker discusses the ancient practice of sacrifice for forgiveness and contrasts it with the modern requirement of a humble heart and contrite spirit for forgiveness, leaving the final judgment to God.
In the ancient days, men made sacrifice that they might be forgiven. Today we are told that we must bring to the Lord for our forgiveness a humble heart and a contrite spiritD&C 59:8As to forgiveness, the Lord has said, "I, the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men"D&C 64:10 which means, as I understand it, that where there is repentance, we shall forgive and receive into fellowship the repentant transgressor, leaving to God the final disposition of ... (continued)
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A Humble Heart and a Contrite Spirit
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker renews his testimony of Jesus Christ and recalls the vision of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon, as well as the comforting message Jesus gave to his disciples before his crucifixion.
This is Easter, and I have already borne my testimony to the risen Christ but I do want to read from the 76th Section the verses we all know, part of which was quoted by Brother Evans this morning. This was the great vision that came to Joseph and Sidney in 1832: And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: that he lives! For we saw him, even on the right hand of God: and we heard the voice bearing record that he is t ... (continued)
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A Latter-day Samaritan
Elder Merlin R. Lybbert
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts the parable of the Good Samaritan, where a man is beaten by thieves and ignored by a priest and a Levite, but helped by a Samaritan, to illustrate the principle of loving one's neighbor and showing mercy.
One of the best-known parables of the Savior is the story we have come to know as the good Samaritan. As related by Luke, a certain lawyer tempted Jesus, saying, "Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"Luke 10:25
In New Testament times a lawyer was the equivalent of a scribe, who was by profession a student and teacher of the law, including the written law of the Pentateuch, and also "the traditions of the elders." (Bible Dictionary, s.v.Lawyer.)
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