A Prisoner of Love
Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone
- Of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker humorously recounts a story of an old lady guessing an old man's age at a rest home, revealing she knew because he told her the day before.
A little old lady at a rest home turned to the old man next to her and said, 'I can guess your age.' 'You can’t,' he replied. 'Yes, I can,' she said. 'You go take a bath, shave, brush your hair, put on a nice clean shirt and a tie, and shine your shoes, and I’ll tell you.' The old man was gone for about an hour. When he returned he was neat, clean, hair brushed, shoes polished, and in his suit. She said, 'Now you go stand up against the wall.' He did. He said, 'Now, how old am I?' ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prisoner of Love
Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone
- Of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker describes the profound joy and sacredness of celebrating Christmas while serving a mission, baptizing a family, and sharing the moment with a spouse.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s will never be the same again once you have celebrated them while serving a mission. Imagine a small Christmas tree with a few decorations, Christmas carols, a humble apartment, never more in love with your wife—a Christmas spirit that makes that little apartment seem as a sacred temple. You pack your white baptismal clothing and walk, hand in hand, to the chapel, where a little family waits patiently to enter God’s kingdom through the ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
President Tanner shared experiences from the area conferences in Europe, while similar conferences were carried out in other parts of the world.
President Tanner has relived for us the area conferences of Europe. We have carried similar ones to the Orient and South America and Mexico and the South Seas.
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
President Romney spoke on honesty, integrity, and related themes.
President Romney has given us the word of the Lord on honesty and integrity and companion themes.
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on the Bicentennial through the perspective of one of the Brethren.
We have partly relived the Bicentennial through the eyes of one of the Brethren.
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker discusses the use of life experiences, parables, and exhortations by the Brethren to guide and teach.
Delightful experiences from life have been used by the Brethren to point the way and direct our footsteps, and great lessons have been taught by parable, quotation, and exhortation.
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker testifies of his knowledge of God's existence and expresses pity for those who live in doubt.
I know without question that God lives and have a feeling of sorrow for those people in the world who live in the gray area of doubt, who do not have such an assurance.
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker expresses his surprise that someone would question the work of the Lord, recounting a conversation with a doctor about his own health and responsibilities.
Recently a prominent doctor, knowing of my surgery and cancer treatments, exhibited a little surprise at my assuming the great responsibility of the church presidency. He was not a member of the Church and evidently had never known the pull and the pressure one feels when one has a positive assurance that the Lord is not playing games, but rather has a serious program for man and for his glory. The Lord knows what He is doing, and all His moves are appropriate and right.
And I was surprised also ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker affirms his testimony of Jesus Christ's role in creation, redemption, and the organization of the Church.
I know that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Only Begotten Son of our Heavenly Father, and that He assisted in the creation of man and of all that serves man, including the earth and all that is in the world. He was the Redeemer of mankind and the Savior of this world and the author of the plan of salvation for all men and the exaltation of all who live the laws He has given.
He it was who organized this vehicle"”this true church"”and called it after His name: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Program for Man
President Spencer W. Kimball
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker shares his belief that God communicates with prophets today as He did in the past, and emphasizes the availability of truth and salvation.
I know that the Lord has contact with his prophets, and that He reveals the truth today to His servants as He did in the days of Adam and Abraham and Moses and Peter and Joseph and the numerous others throughout time. God"™s messages of light and truth are as surely given to man today as in any other dispensation.
Since Adam and Eve were placed in the garden the Lord has been eager"”eager to reveal truth and right to His people. There have been many times when man would not listen, and, of c ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet "Great Like Unto Moses"
Elder Milton R. Hunter
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
Joseph Smith was foreordained in the Grand Council of heaven to be a prophet, seer, and revelator, as were other prophets like Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Joseph Smith himself.
"Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose that I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council." (Joseph Fielding Smith,Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 365.)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet "Great Like Unto Moses"
Elder Milton R. Hunter
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
Joseph Smith experienced a personal visitation from God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ in the Sacred Grove, which was unparalleled in holy scriptures.
"When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other"”This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!"JS"”H 1:17
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet "Great Like Unto Moses"
Elder Milton R. Hunter
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
Joseph of Egypt prophesied about a future prophet named Joseph, who would be like unto Moses and would perform a great work for the salvation of humanity.
Approximately 3,500 years before the birth of Joseph Smith, the prophet Joseph of Egyptian fame prophesied that in the latter days God would raise up a great prophet, seer, and revelator. This prophet and seer would perform a great and marvelous work for the salvation of the human family. His name would be Joseph, and his father's name would be Joseph. He would be mighty among the people and would "do much good, both in word and in deed, being an instrument in the hands of God, with exceeding fa ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet "Great Like Unto Moses"
Elder Milton R. Hunter
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
Joseph Smith, along with Sidney Rigdon, had a vision where they saw Jesus Christ on the right hand of God and received a testimony of His divinity.
". . . the Lord touched the eyes of our understandings and they were opened . . . "And we beheld the glory of the Son, on the right hand of the Father . . . "And saw the holy angels and them who are sanctified before his throne, worshiping God, and the Lamb, who worship him forever and ever. "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 han ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet "Great Like Unto Moses"
Elder Milton R. Hunter
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
Joseph Smith prophesied that the Saints would suffer afflictions, be driven to the Rocky Mountains, and that some would help establish settlements there, a prophecy that was fulfilled.
". . . I prophesied that the Saints would continue to suffer much affliction and would be driven to the Rocky Mountains, many would apostatize, others would be put to death by our persecutors or lose their lives in consequence of exposure or disease, and some of you will live to go and assist in making settlements and build cities and see the Saints become a mighty people in the midst of the Rocky Mountains." (Documentary History of the Church, Vol. 5, p. 85.)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet Chosen of the Lord
Elder David B. Haight
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts the historic nature of the conference where members will sustain a newly called prophet and other Church leaders, emphasizing the principle of common consent.
This conference is historic because we will be given the opportunity to raise our hands to personally sustain a newly called prophet of God, his counselors, and other Church leaders. A solemn assembly grants to members the right to participate in the principle of common consent, instituted by revelation, authorizing members to sustain those called to official positions. Individual histories and personal accounts of this historic conference will be a highlight throughout our lives.
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet Chosen of the Lord
Elder David B. Haight
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker describes the process of revelation in the Church, including his own witness to sacred things and the Prophet Joseph Smith's teachings on receiving the Holy Ghost.
This claim is not made lightly. I know there is revelation, as I am a witness to sacred things also experienced by others who administer His work.
The principle of revelation by the Holy Ghost is a fundamental principle of the Lord"™s Church. Prophets of God receive revelation by this process. Individual members of the Church may also receive revelation to confirm truth. The Prophet Joseph Smith told us that "no man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelation." (Teachings of the ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet Chosen of the Lord
Elder David B. Haight
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker narrates the historical process of selecting a new Church President, including the reorganization of the First Presidency in 1847, and the sustaining of Brigham Young as President of the Church.
Following the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum in 1844, the Quorum of the Twelve, with Brigham Young as quorum president, presided over the Church for the next 3 1/2 years.
Then, on the banks of the Missouri River in Winter Quarters on December 5, 1847, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles met in council at the home of Orson Hyde. Each of the twelve Apostles expressed his views regarding the matter of reorganizing the First Presidency. Present in that meeting was Ezra T. Benson ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet Chosen of the Lord
Elder David B. Haight
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker shares the story of President Benson's upbringing, his father's advice on prayer, and how prayer has been a constant source of strength throughout his life.
He was reared on a small farm in Whitney, Idaho, the eldest of eleven children. His stalwart parents had great faith in God. They taught their children that, in spite of difficulties and hardships, they could always go to the Lord and He would give them strength and help.
President Benson"™s father lovingly counseled his young son: "Remember that whatever you do or wherever you are, you are never alone. Our Heavenly Father is always near. You can reach out and receive His aid through prayer."� ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
A Prophet Chosen of the Lord
Elder David B. Haight
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts President Benson's experiences during his mission in Europe after World War II, his service in the Eisenhower administration, and his unwavering integrity.
Called as a new Apostle in 1943, Elder Benson soon received from the First Presidency a most challenging and significant assignment. He was assigned to give assistance to members of the Church in Europe who had been devastated by World War II. He witnessed the ravages of war. He saw the hungry, the cold, the destitute.
Frederick W. Babbel, called to serve as executive secretary to Elder Benson while he was in Europe, wrote to his family:
"The Lord knew what he was doing when he sent [Elder] Bens ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →