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"I Have Given You an Example"

The speaker recounts how his parents eventually joined the Church and were sealed in the temple, emphasizing the importance of patience and vision in influencing family members towards the gospel.
Remember that the conversion of individuals is only part of the work. Always seek to strengthen families. Teach with a vision of the importance of families being sealed in the temple. With some families it may take years. This was the case with my parents. Many years after I was baptized, my father was baptized, and later my family was sealed in the temple. My father served as a sealer in the temple, and my mother served there with him. When you have the vision of the sealing ordinances of the t ... (continued)
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"I Have Witnessed Miracles"

The speaker recounts visiting Seoul, Korea, where he witnessed a Utah farm boy, now a missionary, conducting a gathering of over 500 young Koreans with great dignity and speaking their language fluently, demonstrating the transformative power of the gospel.
Not long ago, I sat in an old high school gymnasium in the city of Seoul, Korea. Just a short time earlier the blood of the young people of Korea had been running in the streets of that strife-ridden city. In our meeting that evening there were over 500 young Koreans. I was told that we have only two married couples who are members of the Church in all of the Seoul District. Our members there are young, forward-looking people. Conducting that gathering was a sandy-haired, Utah farm boy. He condu ... (continued)
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"I Have Witnessed Miracles"

The speaker describes a street meeting in Pusan, Korea, where a missionary from Florida spoke so well in Korean that a local was surprised he had only been there for two years, leading the speaker to reflect on the biblical promise of speaking in new tongues.
We then went down to the sad city of Pusan on the southern tip of Korea. We held a street meeting in the park overlooking the harbor. Within a few feet of a great anti-aircraft gun emplacement we opened our meeting, and about 150 curious, intelligent-looking people gathered. A boy from Florida, a missionary of this Church, began to speak. I then wandered down into the crowd with an army sergeant—one of our boys who was taking us around. A Korean who spoke some English said in substance to ... (continued)
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"I Have Witnessed Miracles"

In Hiroshima, Japan, the speaker meets a Japanese businessman and Church elder who expresses gratitude for the missionaries who brought hope and purpose to his life, and is about to baptize his business partner.
Not long ago we were in Hiroshima, Japan. We stood in the park and green grows the grass at the site where on the sixth of August 1945, just fifteen years ago, 80,000 lives were taken with the blinding flash of the first atomic bomb. Another 80,000 have since died from the effects of it. It is a sobering experience to stand in that place. There is a simple monument about the size of this pulpit, and it has inscribed on its face in Japanese characters, words which say in translation: 'Rest in pea ... (continued)
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"I Have Witnessed Miracles"

A missionary shares a testimony about his father, who had become inactive and taken to drinking, but was inspired by his son's farewell to change his life, resulting in him being ordained a high priest and becoming a counselor in the bishopric.
We sat in a testimony meeting one day a few months ago. A boy stood up with a letter in his hand. He said, 'I think I am happier than I have ever been in my life. I have had many wonderful experiences here, and they have made me happy, but it is this letter that has really warmed my heart. My father, once active, began drinking, and oh, the sorrow my mother has suffered because of this. After my farewell my father said, 'My son, I am going to try to live worthy of you.' Now,' the missionary said ... (continued)
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"I Know That My Redeemer Lives"

The speaker recounts a personal interaction with President Marion G. Romney, reflecting on their shared family heritage and their commitment to live worthily.
President Romney and I are members of the same family. After I had been told of my call, he said to me, “I think Granddad Redd [Lemuel Hardison Redd] will be glad to receive us.” I said, “I am going to live so I will be worthy to go where he is.” He said, “So am I.”
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"I Know That My Redeemer Lives"

The speaker expresses his knowledge of the truth of the work of the Church and his personal revelations, affirming the divinity of Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith's role as a prophet, and the Church's current leadership.
I have a perfect knowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and that he was crucified for the sins of the world. I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God through whose instrumentality the fullness of the everlasting gospel has been restored again in our day. And I know that this Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the kingdom of God on earth, and that as now constituted, with President Harold B. Lee at its head, it has the approval and approbation of the Lord, is in ... (continued)
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"I Know That My Redeemer Lives"

The speaker shares his commitment and desire to sustain and uphold the Presidency of the Church, and he expresses the collective feeling of the congregation in a solemn assembly to rededicate their lives to the principles of truth and righteousness.
I think I speak for each one of you, I know I do for myself and my family, when I say that in this solemn assembly—with the outpouring of the Spirit of the Lord that has been present as we have sustained the authorities of the Church and as we have listened to President Lee as he spoke by the power of the Spirit—I think all of us desire to rededicate our lives to the principles of truth and righteousness for which these noble leaders, the Presidents of the Church named by President ... (continued)
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"I Stand at the Door and Knock"

The speaker recalls a lesson in humility learned from a sign at a pulpit that read 'Who stands at this pulpit, let him be humble.'
Some years ago I stood at a pulpit and noticed a little sign that only the speaker could see, and the words on that sign were these: 'Who stands at this pulpit, let him be humble.' How I pray to my Heavenly Father that I might never forget the lesson I learned that day!
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"I Stand at the Door and Knock"

The speaker expresses gratitude for his heritage, mentioning his parents and ancestors who were converted to the faith by missionaries from Sweden, Scotland, and England.
I feel to thank my Heavenly Father for his many blessings to me. I am grateful to have been born of goodly parents1 Ne. 1:1whose parents were gathered out of the lands of Sweden and Scotland and England by humble missionaries who through the bearing of their testimonies touched the spirits of these wonderful people.
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"I Stand at the Door and Knock"

The speaker tells the story of a French-Canadian woman whose life was transformed by the missionaries and who expressed her commitment to obey the prophet.
I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched as she said good-bye to me and my wife two years ago in Quebec. She said, 'President Monson, I may never see the prophet. I may never hear the prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the prophet.'
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"I Stand at the Door and Knock"

The speaker shares his appreciation for his upbringing in a humble community, his wife and her mother's courageous conversion and immigration, his children, and his work associates.
I am so grateful for my teachers and leaders in my boyhood and young manhood in a humble, pioneer ward in a humble, pioneer stake. I am grateful for my sweet companion and for the influence for good which she has had upon my life, and to her dear mother who had the courage in far-off Sweden to accept the gospel and to come to this country. I am so happy that the Lord has blessed us with three fine children, our youngest born to us in the mission field in Canada. I am grateful for these blessings ... (continued)
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"I Stand at the Door and Knock"

The speaker recounts feeling divine promptings as a young bishop visiting homes in need and as a mission president working with missionaries.
I know that God lives, my brothers and sisters. There is no question in my mind. I know that this is his work, and I know that the sweetest experience in all this life is to feel his promptings as he directs us in the furtherance of his work. I have felt these promptings as a young bishop, guided to the homes where there was spiritual, or perhaps temporal, want. I felt it again in the mission field as I worked with your sons and your daughters"”the missionaries of this great Church who are a l ... (continued)
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"I Stand at the Door, and Knock"

The speaker shares a story about discussing the Church with a well-educated, successful, and retired friend who had previously rationalized God out of existence.
A few weeks ago I was in a social gathering with a friend of many years"”a friend who recently retired, is well educated, and has been very successful. He is recognized in his country as the leader in his field. As we sat next to one another at dinner, he turned to me and asked about the Church. This was somewhat surprising because I was aware that he, like many in the world today, had rationalized God out of existence. His question was earnest. It was apparently something he had been thinking ... (continued)
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"I Was a Stranger"

During the October 1856 general conference, Brigham Young urged the congregation to rescue handcart pioneers stranded on the plains, leading to women donating their petticoats and stockings for the cause.
One came in the October 1856 general conference as President Brigham Young announced to the congregation that handcart pioneers were still on the trail and late in the season. He declared: 'Your faith, religion, and profession of religion, will never save one soul of you in the celestial kingdom of our God, unless you carry out just such principles as I am now teaching you. Go and bring in those people now on the plains, and attend strictly to those things which we call temporal, ... otherwise y ... (continued)
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"I Was a Stranger"

Brigham Young later called upon the Saints, especially the sisters, to nurse and care for the rescued handcart pioneers, some of whom suffered from severe frostbite.
Several weeks later, President Brigham Young gathered the Saints again in the old Tabernacle as the rescuers and the handcart companies got closer to Salt Lake City. With great urgency, he pleaded with the Saints—especially the sisters—to nurse the sufferers and feed them and receive them, saying: 'Some you will find with their feet frozen to their ankles; some are frozen to their knees and some have their hands frosted. ... We want you to receive them as your own children, and to ... (continued)
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"I Was a Stranger"

Lucy Meserve Smith recounted the efforts made by the Saints to comfort the needy handcart pioneers, expressing satisfaction in the labor and unity of feeling among the helpers.
Lucy Meserve Smith also recorded: 'We did all we could, with the aid of the good brethren and sisters, to comfort the needy. ... They got their hands and feet badly frosted. ... We did not cease our exertions [un]til all were made comfortable. ... 'I never took more satisfaction and, I might say, pleasure in any labor I ever performed in my life, such a unanimity of feeling prevailed. ... 'What comes next for willing hands to do?'
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"I Was a Stranger"

Sister Yvette Bugingo and her family, after fleeing war and living as refugees for over six years, were helped by a caring couple in their new country, who provided transportation, school assistance, and friendship.
Last summer I met Sister Yvette Bugingo, who at age 11 fled from place to place after her father was killed and three of her brothers went missing in a war-torn part of the world. Yvette and the remaining family members eventually lived for six and a half years as refugees in a neighboring country until they were able to move to a permanent home, where they were blessed by a caring couple who helped with transportation, schools, and other things. She said they 'were basically an answer to our pr ... (continued)
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"I Was a Stranger"

A sister, as stake Relief Society president, not only contributed quilts for suffering people in Kosovo but also personally delivered them by driving a truck from London to Kosovo.
At the funeral services for a remarkable daughter of God, someone shared that this sister, as stake Relief Society president, worked with others in her stake to contribute quilts to give warmth to suffering people in Kosovo during the 1990s. And like the good Samaritan, she went out of her way to do more as she and her daughter drove a truck filled with those quilts from London to Kosovo. On her journey home she received an unmistakable spiritual impression that sank deep into her heart. The imp ... (continued)
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"I Was an Hungred, and Ye Gave Me Meat"

A secretary to the Quorum of the Twelve leaked information about the announcement of the Church security plan, which was later called the Church welfare program.
In 1936, 68 years ago, one of the secretaries to the Quorum of the Twelve told me what a member of the Twelve had told her. She said that in the coming general conference there would be announced a program which would come to be recognized as even more noteworthy than the coming of our people to these valleys as pioneers.
Now, parenthetically, you should not tell your secretary what you should keep confidential, and she should not tell anyone else when she is given confidential information.
But ... (continued)
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