Trust in the Lord
By Elder Paul B. Pieper
- Of the Seventy
📅 April 2024
📖 general conference
The speaker's family plays 'The Crazy Trust Exercise' to demonstrate trust, where one person falls backward, trusting the other to catch them.
In our family, we sometimes play a game we call "The Crazy Trust Exercise." You may have played it too. Two people stand a few feet apart, one with their back toward the other. On a signal from the person behind, the person in front falls backward into the waiting arms of their friend.
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Trust in the Lord
By Elder Paul B. Pieper
- Of the Seventy
📅 April 2024
📖 general conference
Leonid, who had a distrust of authority due to past manipulation, struggled with prayer but eventually learned to trust in God and express his feelings through prayer.
Several years ago, two friends of mine, Leonid and Valentina, expressed interest in becoming members of the Church. As Leonid began to learn the gospel, he found it difficult to pray. Earlier in his life, Leonid had suffered from manipulation and control by superiors and had developed a distrust of authority. These experiences affected his ability to open his heart and express personal feelings to Heavenly Father. With time and study, Leonid gained a better understanding of God"™s character an ... (continued)
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Trust in the Lord
By Elder Paul B. Pieper
- Of the Seventy
📅 April 2024
📖 general conference
After law school, the speaker faced a job loss and his daughter's medical challenges, questioning his decision to move. He learned to trust God even more during this trial.
After I finished law school in Utah, our family faced the important decision of where to work and make our home. After counseling with each other and the Lord, we felt directed to move our family to the eastern United States, far from parents and siblings. Initially, things went well, and we felt confirmed in our decision. But then things changed. There was downsizing at the law firm, and I faced the prospect of no job or insurance at the very time our daughter Dora was born with serious medical ... (continued)
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Trust in the Lord
By Elder Paul B. Pieper
- Of the Seventy
📅 April 2024
📖 general conference
Nephi's trust in God was tested when retrieving the brass plates, fixing his broken bow, and building a ship, each time his trust and relationship with God grew stronger.
The Book of Mormon teaches the pattern God uses to stretch us in order to build strong relationships with us. InCome, Follow Me, we recently studied about how Nephi"™s trust in God was tested when he and his brothers were commanded to return to Jerusalem to obtain the brass plates. After their initial attempts failed, his brothers gave up and were ready to return without the plates. But Nephi chose to place his complete trust in the Lord and was successful in obtaining the plates.10[See1 Nep ... (continued)
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Trusting Our Father
By Elder David P. Homer
- Of the Seventy
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
Louisa Pratt's initial lack of joy in traveling transformed into mirth as she began to appreciate the beauty of her surroundings.
Initially, Louisa found little joy in traveling. However, she soon began to welcome the green prairie grass, colorful wildflowers, and patches of ground along the riverbanks. "The gloom on my mind wore gradually away," she recorded, "and there was not a more mirthful woman in the whole company."
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Trusting Our Father
By Elder David P. Homer
- Of the Seventy
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
Louisa Barnes Pratt left behind by her husband Addison Pratt to preach in Hawaii, faced the decision to join the Saints' migration despite difficulties and her reluctance.
On June 1, 1843, Addison Pratt left Nauvoo, Illinois, to preach the gospel in the Hawaiian Islands, leaving his wife, Louisa Barnes Pratt, to care for their young family. In Nauvoo, as persecutions intensified, forcing the Saints to leave, and later at Winter Quarters as they prepared to migrate to the Salt Lake Valley, Louisa faced the decision of whether to make the journey. It would have been easier to stay and to wait for Addison to return than to travel alone. On both occasions, she so ... (continued)
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Trusting Our Father
By Elder David P. Homer
- Of the Seventy
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
A sister who had been away from the Church returned after realizing she needed to be where she knew she belonged, and learned that God's ways are better than hers.
Several months ago, a stake president and I visited a sister in his stake and her young adult son. After years away from the Church, wandering difficult and unfriendly paths, she had returned. During our visit, we asked her why she had come back. "I had made a mess of my life," she said, "and I knew where I needed to be." I then asked her what she had learned in her journey. With some emotion, she shared that she had learned that she needed to attend church long enough to break the habit of ... (continued)
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Welcome to the Church of Joy
By Elder Patrick Kearon
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts their baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Christmas Eve of 1987, expressing profound gratitude for the friends who guided them there.
I was baptised into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Christmas Eve of 1987, nearly 37 years ago. That was a truly wonderful day in my life and in my eternal journey, and I"™m profoundly grateful for the friends who prepared the way and brought me to the waters of that new birth.
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Welcome to the Church of Joy
By Elder Patrick Kearon
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
Elder F. Enzio Busche shares an anecdote about a young boy questioning why a man with a mean face (Busche himself) was sitting on the stand during a church service.
If we are gathering in remembrance of the Saviour and the redemption He has made possible, our faces should reflect our joy and gratitude! Elder F. Enzio Busche once told the story of when he was a branch president and a young boy in the congregation looked at him on the stand and asked loudly, "What is the man with that mean face doing up there?"
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Welcome to the Church of Joy
By Elder Patrick Kearon
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on the purpose of the sacrament, suggesting that instead of focusing on past mistakes, one should ponder the ways the Lord has shown love and pursued them with His love during the week.
We may have been conditioned to suppose that the purpose of the sacrament is to sit in the pew thinking only about all the ways we messed up during the week before. But let"™s turn that practice on its head. In the stillness, we can ponder the many ways we have seen the Lord relentlessly pursue us with His wonderful love that week!
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Welcome to the Church of Joy
By Elder Patrick Kearon
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
The speaker invites those who haven't yet discovered the joy in Jesus Christ to embark on its quest, sharing their own experience of joy in Christ that changed their world.
At the start of my journey of faith, joy in Jesus Christ was my first great discovery, and it changed my world. If you have yet to discover this joy, embark on its quest. This is an invitation to receive the Saviour"™s gift of peace, light, and joy"”to revel in it, to wonder at it, and to rejoice in it every Sabbath.
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Welcome to the Church of Joy
By Elder Patrick Kearon
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 October 2024
📖 general conference
Ammon from the Book of Mormon is quoted by the speaker to express their feelings of joy and thanksgiving in God.
Ammon in the Book of Mormon expresses the feelings of my heart when he says:
"Now have we not reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto you, there never were [a people] that had so great reason to rejoice as we, since the world began; yea, and my joy is carried away, even unto boasting in my God; for he has all power, all wisdom, and all understanding; he comprehendeth all things, and he is a merciful Being, even unto salvation, to those who will repent and believe on his name.
"Now if this is boasting ... (continued)
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Words Matter
By Elder Ronald A. Rasband
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 April 2024
📖 general conference
Alma and his people chose to use the word of God to influence others rather than resorting to warfare.
In the Book of Mormon, the prophet Alma and his people in ancient America encountered endless warfare with those who had disregarded the word of God, hardened their hearts, and corrupted their culture. The faithful could have fought, but Alma counseled: “And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them ... (continued)
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Words Matter
By Elder Ronald A. Rasband
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 April 2024
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts his experience in Bangkok, Thailand, where he felt prompted by the Spirit to add certain words to the temple dedicatory prayer, which aligned with the words of the living prophet.
Last October my wife, Melanie, and I were in Bangkok, Thailand, as I was preparing to dedicate what would be the Church’s 185th temple.23[The Bangkok Thailand Temple was dedicated on October 22, 2023.]For me, the assignment was both surreal and humbling. This was the first temple on the Southeast Asia peninsula.24[The temple district reaches beyond Thailand’s borders, spanning Cambodia to Pakistan, Nepal to Indonesia.]It was masterfully designed—a six-story, nine-spired s ... (continued)
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Words Matter
By Elder Ronald A. Rasband
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 April 2024
📖 general conference
The speaker shares a personal example of how saying 'I love you' to his wife daily served as an anchor for his soul and a protection against evil designs.
Let me share a personal example. Husbands, take heed. Sisters, this is going to help you too. Before my full-time assignment in the Church, I traveled widely for my company. I was gone a fair amount of time to far reaches of the world. At the end of my day, no matter where I was, I always called home. When my wife, Melanie, picked up the phone and I reported in, our conversation always led us to expressing “I love you.†Every day, those words served as an anchor to my soul and my con ... (continued)
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An Humble and Contrite Heart
Elder Charles A. Callis
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 April 1942
📖 general conference
The story of Moses pleading with God on behalf of the Israelites who had sinned by creating a golden idol.
One time the children of Israel committed sin, and Moses said to them: "I am going up in the mount to talk with God and make atonement for your sins"Ex. 32:30Oh, I love that word, "atonement." The atonement of the Savior "” without that there would have been no vitality, no purpose in any of the principles of the gospel, for it gives life to every doctrine of the everlasting gospel. Listen to this: And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have ma ... (continued)
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An Humble and Contrite Heart
Elder Charles A. Callis
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 April 1942
📖 general conference
The story of Joseph Smith's humility and willingness to sacrifice himself for his people.
The man who communed with Jehovah, Joseph Smith, was meek but had great power. Enshrined in that power was love for his people and for the gospel of Jesus Christ. When the West was opened unto him, when he saw there a refuge for himself and his people, yet for fear of drawing down upon the people he loved (who would be temporarily left in Nauvoo ) bitter persecution, mobocracy, and cruel punishment, he voluntarily relinquished the means of escape and said: "I go as a lamb to the slaughter. If my ... (continued)
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Leadership in the Aaronic Priesthood
Bishop LeGrand Richards
- Presiding Bishop of the Church
📅 April 1942
📖 general conference
The speaker tells about a bishop who, after being released, took over the Adult Aaronic Priesthood in his ward, demonstrating that there is always work to be done in the Church.
I had a letter from a bishop the other day and he said: 'Since they released me I have taken over the Adult Aaronic Priesthood in the ward. We have forty-two enrolled and we are having an average attendance of fifteen to twenty-five in my home every Monday night.' There is work for everybody if we are going to discharge the responsibilities that are ours in this great day of the fulness of times.
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Leadership in the Aaronic Priesthood
Bishop LeGrand Richards
- Presiding Bishop of the Church
📅 April 1942
📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on the importance of leadership in the Church and recalls a conversation with a chairman of the Aaronic Priesthood who attributed their success to having an 'up-and-coming stake presidency'.
We had in our office yesterday a chairman of the Aaronic Priesthood in one of the stakes of Zion where every quorum earned a standard quorum award for 1941. I congratulated him, and said: 'How do you do it?' He said: 'We have an up-and-coming stake presidency, and when we have that, it is easy to do the job.' He said: 'We tear theProgress of the Churchapart and we mimeograph it and send it out to our wards.' It was not hard to determine why all the quorums of that stake were standard award quoru ... (continued)
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Leadership in the Aaronic Priesthood
Bishop LeGrand Richards
- Presiding Bishop of the Church
📅 April 1942
📖 general conference
The speaker shares a story about a change in a stake presidency that led to a 66% increase in the stake's performance, emphasizing the impact of leadership.
There is one stake of Zion in this Church in which I have been very much interested for many years. I have watched its progress, and I have kept track of its record on the bulletin. Three years ago there was a change made in the stake presidency. The man who was released is a fine Latter-day Saint, a real man, but he did not seem to have the vision of things, and according to the report in the last three years, since the change, that stake has increased its record sixty-six percent in all items, ... (continued)
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