"Come unto Me with Full Purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You"
Elder Patrick Kearon
- Of the Seventy
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📖 general conference
The speaker shares a story of a 92-year-old World War II veteran who learned the importance of following the exact path to avoid land mines.
Last week I met a 92-year-old man who had been involved in many of the major campaigns of World War II. He had survived three injuries, one of which was a land-mine blast to the jeep in which he was traveling, which killed the driver. He learned that to survive in a minefield, you must follow exactly in the tracks of the vehicle moving ahead of you. Any deviation to the right or left could—and indeed did—prove fatal.
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"Come unto Me with Full Purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You"
Elder Patrick Kearon
- Of the Seventy
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📖 general conference
The speaker recounts a childhood incident where he was stung by a scorpion in the desert due to not wearing proper shoes, despite his parents' warnings.
As a seven-year-old boy living in the Arabian Peninsula, I was consistently told by my parents to always wear my shoes, and I understood why. I knew that shoes would protect my feet against the many threats to be found in the desert, such as snakes, scorpions, and thorns. One morning after a night’s camping in the desert, I wanted to go exploring, but I did not want to bother with putting on my shoes. I rationalized that I was only going for a little wander and I would stay close by the c ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me"
President Henry B. Eyring
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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📖 general conference
The speaker testifies of his witness of the Resurrection of the Lord, comparing his certainty to that of Joseph Smith when he saw the Father and the Son.
I am a witness of the Resurrection of the Lord as surely as if I had been there in the evening with the two disciples in the house on Emmaus road. I know that He lives as surely as did Joseph Smith when he saw the Father and the Son in the light of a brilliant morning in a grove of trees in Palmyra.
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"Come unto Me"
President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Jesus performed many miracles in Galilee but was met with skepticism by the people who questioned his divine heritage, leading to his lamentation over their unbelief.
In his beloved Galilee, that familiar, favored home region of Jesus, the Son of God performed not only his first recorded miracle but went on to perform many great miracles that surely must have astonished and awed the people of Galilee who saw them. He healed a leper, cured the servant of a centurion, stilled a tempest, cast out devils, healed a paralytic, opened the eyes of the blind, and restored a young woman to life who had died.
Most of the people of his home region would not truly believe ... (continued)
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President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Despite the miracles Jesus performed, many people in his home region did not accept his message, leading him to criticize the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum and to express sorrow for their lack of faith.
In severely criticizing and finding fault with the wicked cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, he said:
"For if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
"But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee."Matt. 11:23"“24
While anguishing over the wickedness and lack of faith among so many in his home area, the Savior voiced his prayer of gratitude for t ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me"
President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Jesus extended an invitation to all who labor and are heavy laden to come unto him for rest, an offer that was misunderstood by some who saw him only as a carpenter's son.
This invitation and promise is one of the most oft-quoted of all scripture and has been of untold comfort and reassurance to millions. Yet there were those among his hearers that day whose vision was so limited that they could see only a carpenter"™s son speaking of a wooden yoke. A yoke which, from time to time, he had undoubtedly hewn and shaped from heavy wooden timbers for the oxen of these same men who were listening.
Elder Talmage added: "He invited them from drudgery to pleasant service ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me"
President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Christ's appeal to take his yoke upon us is compared to the practical use of a yoke in agriculture, emphasizing that his yoke makes burdens light and manageable.
Of course, obligations go with such promises. "Take my yoke upon you," he pleads. In biblical times the yoke was a device of great assistance to those who tilled the field. It allowed the strength of a second animal to be linked and coupled with the effort of a single animal, sharing and reducing the heavy labor of the plow or wagon. A burden that was overwhelming or perhaps impossible for one to bear could be equitably and comfortably borne by two bound together with a common yoke. His yoke r ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me"
President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Jesus Christ's call to come unto him is a universal appeal, not limited to any specific time or people, and is an unfailing answer to the cares and worries of the world.
Unfortunately, a refusal to accept his miracles and his glorious invitation is still seen today. This marvelous offer of assistance extended by the Son of God himself was not restricted to the Galileans of his day. This call to shoulder his easy yoke and accept his light burden is not limited to bygone generations. It was and is a universal appeal to all people, to all cities and nations, to every man, woman, and child everywhere.
In our own great times of need we must not leave unrecognized thi ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me"
President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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The Savior's warnings about pride and self-destruction are exemplified by the fate of the cities Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, which were once powerful but are now in ruins.
"Learn of me," he continued, "for I am meek and lowly in heart."Matt. 11:29Surely the lessons of history ought to teach us that pride, haughtiness, self-adulation, conceit, and vanity contain all of the seeds of self-destruction for individuals, cities, or nations. The ashes and rubble of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum are the silent witnesses of the Savior"™s unheeded warnings to that generation. Once majestic and powerful cities, they no longer exist. Would we add our names or the na ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me"
President Henry B. Eyring
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker recalls attending a sacrament meeting with his family on a cold and dark evening over 65 years ago, feeling the light and warmth in the chapel, and the closeness of the Savior.
It may have been when you chose to attend a sacrament meeting. It was for me on a Sabbath when I was very young. In those days we received the sacrament during an evening meeting. The memory of one day more than 65 years ago, when I kept the commandment to gather with my family and with the Saints, still draws me closer to the Savior.
It was dark and cold outside. I remember feeling light and warmth in the chapel that evening with my parents. We partook of the sacrament, administered by Aaronic ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me"
President Henry B. Eyring
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker describes reading the scriptures to rekindle the feelings of love and closeness to the Savior he felt in his youth, and recounts the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus who invited the resurrected Christ into their home.
I wanted to rekindle once again the feelings of the love of the Savior and His closeness I felt during that sacrament meeting in my youth. So recently I kept another commandment. I searched in the scriptures. In them, I knew I could go back again to have the Holy Ghost let me feel what two disciples of the risen Lord had felt when He accepted their invitation to come into their home and to abide with them.
I read of the third day after His Crucifixion and burial. Faithful women and others found ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me, O Ye House of Israel"
Elder Larry Echo Hawk
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts his experience during Marine Corps basic training when his drill instructor, after ridiculing others, respectfully handled his Book of Mormon upon discovering his faith.
I volunteered for service in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Soon after my arrival in Quantico, Virginia, for basic training, I found myself standing at attention in front of my barrack"™s bunk along with 54 other Marine Corps recruits. I met my drill instructor, a battle-hardened veteran, when he kicked open the door to the barracks and entered while screaming words laced with profanity.
After this terrifying introduction, he started at one end of the barracks and confr ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me, O Ye House of Israel"
Elder Larry Echo Hawk
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker shares his personal history of converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 14, encouraged by missionaries and a quorum adviser, and his subsequent reading of the Book of Mormon.
When I was 14 years old, two missionaries, Lee Pearson and Boyd Camphuysen, taught my family the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, and I was baptized. Two years later my priests quorum adviser, Richard Boren, challenged me to read the Book of Mormon. I accepted that challenge, and I read at least 10 pages every night until I finished.
On the title page I read that it is "written to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to Jew and Gentile." In the introduction to the ... (continued)
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"Come unto Me, O Ye House of Israel"
Elder Larry Echo Hawk
- Of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts the history of his great-grandfather Echo Hawk, a Pawnee Indian, and how the Pawnee people were displaced and nearly destroyed, drawing a parallel to the narrative of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon.
My great-grandfather Echo Hawk, a Pawnee Indian, was born in the mid-1800s in what is now called Nebraska. When he was 19 years of age, the Pawnee people were forced to give up their 23-million-acre (9.3 million ha) homeland to make room for settlers. In 1874 the Pawnee people were marched several hundred miles south to a small reservation located in the Oklahoma Indian Territory. The population of Pawnee people had declined from over 12,000 to less than 700 upon their arrival in Oklahoma. The P ... (continued)
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"Come Ye After Me"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
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The speaker gets lost on a back road in Vermont and receives an indifferent response from a local farmer when asking for directions to Rutland.
It reminded me of a little experience I had recently in Vermont. I was attempting to find a shortcut to the little town of Rutland, and I took one of those exciting back-road routes and soon became hopelessly lost. I came to a fork in the road. I noticed a farmer standing in the field, so I wound down the window and I asked, "Say, fella, does it matter which road I take to Rutland?" He said, "It doesn't matter to me at all." I think sometimes the world has that problem.
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"Come Ye After Me"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
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After a heavy snowstorm in New England, the speaker follows a snowplow into Saint Johnsbury and encounters a local who humorously comments on their winter activities.
In the upper part of New England we sometimes get snowbound, and once after a rather heavy storm I followed a snowplow into Saint Johnsbury. The town had been isolated some eight days. Again, I was lost. In seeking help I went into a little country store, and sitting there on the typical cracker barrel was another Vermonter. I asked, "Tell me, sir, what do you do all winter when you get snowbound?"
He said, "We just sit and think, mostly sit."
I think that might be a major problem in the world: ... (continued)
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"Come Ye After Me"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
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📖 general conference
Vince Lombardi transforms a last-place football team into world champions, emphasizing not just physical toughness but also spiritual and mental toughness.
Fall also brings the crisp days and chilly nights that signal the start of the football season. Those of you who take an active interest in sports, and know of football's importance in turning boys into men, were saddened recently as I was in learning of the passing of that great football coach and builder of men, Vince Lombardi. Here was a man who came to a last-place team comprised of men who had forgotten what winning was—a team with no spirit, no confidence, and no respect —and ... (continued)
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"Come Ye After Me"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
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The speaker humorously recounts how two missionary assistants tried to help a thin missionary gain weight, resulting in a witty exchange.
One of the great attributes of the Church is that we too are building men. I have under my direction in New England some 175 of the finest young men and women anywhere in the world. I have great faith and confidence in them and the things they do. We appreciate you fine parents who sacrifice so that your sons and daughters can fulfill missions. You are doing them a great service, and you in turn are being blessed. In private interview and in testimony meetings, they often express love for you an ... (continued)
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"Come Ye After Me"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
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📖 general conference
The speaker and his wife discuss the purpose of missionary work with a Harvard professor and his wife, who are curious about the conviction of young missionaries.
Sister Dunn and I recently visited with a Harvard professor and his wife who had had some contact with the Church and the missionaries. This learned man, holder of many degrees, and his charming wife had noted something special in these two young men who had borne their testimonies of the reality of God, the divinity of Christ, and of the restoration of the Church in these latter days. As we spoke, this professor said, "Mr. Dunn, what is it that gives these young men such a strong conviction? Wh ... (continued)
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"Come Ye After Me"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
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An ex-convict's life is transformed by two missionaries who bring him a message of hope and salvation, changing him into a responsible citizen and a worthy Latter-day Saint.
During the past year I have watched one of society's outcasts, an ex-convict, rise from the depths of a prison cell to become a responsible citizen, a worthy Latter-day Saint. This man's life was changed because two of our missionaries brought him a message of hope and of salvation. He had thought because of his past all was lost and his chance had passed. But these two young elders brought him the gospel and a new way of life.
Unfortunately there are some in this world who continue to ignore or ... (continued)
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