"In the World"
Elder L. Tom Perry
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
The speaker's personal experience of attending business dinners and choosing to drink milk instead of alcohol, which led to positive attention and the practice of having milk available at social hours.
I remember that as a young executive many years ago, part of my job involved attending dinners sponsored by different business groups. Each dinner was always preceded by a social hour. I felt very uncomfortable in these settings. After the first one or two dinners, I started coming late to miss the social hour. My boss thought this was not a good practice because I was missing valuable time associating with business leaders. Still, I felt awkward visiting in groups where I was the only one witho ... (continued)
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"In the World"
Elder L. Tom Perry
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Daniel's rise to trusted counselor of the king, the jealousy it sparked, the law devised to prevent him from praying, his subsequent punishment, and miraculous survival in the lion's den.
Sometimes I think we fear participation because of the opposition we may face. We find again in the example of Daniel someone who met the opposition of being "in the world" head-on and was able to influence those around him for good. As Daniel"™s talents were recognized by the king, he became a trusted counselor. Many were jealous of the position this outsider had obtained, and they sought to do away with him. They devised a new law that would prevent Daniel from praying to God, the Eternal ... (continued)
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"Into His Marvelous Light"
Bishop Joseph L. Wirthlin
- Presiding Bishop of the Church
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Jesus Christ, at the age of twelve, was found in the temple discussing with the learned men, after his parents, Mary and Joseph, realized he was not with them on their journey home from Jerusalem.
As Latter-day Saints, we are particularly interested in two great individuals: one, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and the other, Joseph Smith"”the one at the age of twelve, the other at the age of fourteen. Christ visited Jerusalem for the first time with Mary and Joseph, who had gone there to attend the Feast of the Passover and to pay their taxes. When they started homeward, and after one day's travel, they discovered the Christ was not in their company. Returning to Jerusalem, they found h ... (continued)
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"Into His Marvelous Light"
Bishop Joseph L. Wirthlin
- Presiding Bishop of the Church
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Joseph Smith, at the age of fourteen, was concerned about the differing opinions among churches and sought wisdom from God, leading to the First Vision where he saw the Father and the Son.
Two thousand years later, there was a boy at the age of fourteen, Joseph Smith, who lived in Palmyra, New York. Among the churches in Palmyra, New York, was great misunderstanding of the gospel. It was impossible to find the church organization and the priesthood as it existed nearly 2,000 years before. Joseph was very much concerned about the differences of opinion among the various churches and the doctrines they were teaching. He was one in whose heart was a testimony that in the Bible could ... (continued)
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"Into His Marvelous Light"
Bishop Joseph L. Wirthlin
- Presiding Bishop of the Church
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Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist and later the Melchizedek Priesthood from Peter, James, and John, restoring the Church with its priesthoods.
Through the appearances of the Father and the Son, Moroni, and John the Baptist, the Aaronic Priesthood was restored and placed upon the earth. Some few weeks later, three apostles, Peter, James, and John, appeared and bestowed upon Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery the Melchizedek Priesthood. We can readily see that the Church of Jesus Christ was again restored, organized, and placed upon the earth with both the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods, for the salvation, inspiration, and guidance of ... (continued)
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"Is Any Thing Too Hard for the Lord?"
Douglas W. DeHaan
- President, Portland Oregon East Stake
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The speaker recounts a time when the Portland Oregon East Stake was developing a dairy farm and faced a challenge in harvesting corn due to unseasonably rainy weather, which threatened to ruin the crop.
Just three years ago, at this same time of year, I had this great principle demonstrated to me at the hands of the Lord in a very special way. The Portland Oregon East Stake has been developing a dairy farm over the past half dozen years or more. It is located on an island in the Columbia River and is one of the largest single-stake projects in the Church. This fact, coupled with the need to develop the project almost from scratch, has placed a heavy burden upon our people, both in time and in m ... (continued)
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"Is Any Thing Too Hard for the Lord?"
Douglas W. DeHaan
- President, Portland Oregon East Stake
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Feeling depressed about the situation, the speaker visits the farm, walks through the muddy fields, and hears a voice in his mind reminding him that nothing is too hard for the Lord, which prompts him to pray and commit the crop's harvest to God.
I visit the farm about once a week, so I keep a pair of rubber boots in my car. I drove to the farm that October day and decided to pull on my boots and walk down into the corn fields. I immediately found even the road turned to mud and puddles. In places the mud came near the top of my eighteen-inch-high boots, and I don"™t really know why I continued walking. It was a dark gray, overcast day, and drops of rain were splashing in the open puddles everywhere. The farm crew told me they had take ... (continued)
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"Is Any Thing Too Hard for the Lord?"
Douglas W. DeHaan
- President, Portland Oregon East Stake
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After sharing his experience with his congregation, the weather miraculously cleared up, allowing the harvest to be completed before a heavy downpour began, reinforcing the speaker's belief in the power of faith and divine intervention.
Because of the spiritual nature of my experience, I think I had decided not to tell anyone of it. But the very next Sunday I was sitting on the stand during one of our ward sacrament meetings. I was not scheduled to speak, but the bishop got up with about ten minutes remaining and said, "I feel President DeHaan has had a spiritual experience that he needs to share with us." I got up reluctantly, knowing what it was I had to relate. I did so and asked the congregation to join me with their fait ... (continued)
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"Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?"
President Henry B. Eyring
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker describes a future moment when individuals will be greeted by the Savior and commended for serving others as if they had served Him directly, referencing Matthew 25:34–40.
He told us that was true when He described a future moment we all will have when we see Him after our life in this world is complete. A picture in my mind of that day has grown more vivid in the days that I have prayed and fasted to know what to say this morning. The Lord"™s description of that future interview was given to His disciples, and it describes what we want with all our hearts to be true for us as well:
"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Fat ... (continued)
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"Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?"
President Henry B. Eyring
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker shares a personal experience of feeling prompted to donate a fast offering after reading about the destruction caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu.
I received one of those blessings just a few weeks ago. Since general conference falls on a weekend that would normally include the fast and testimony meeting, I fasted and prayed to know how I should still obey the commandment to care for those in need.
On a Saturday, still fasting, I woke at 6:00 and prayed again. I felt impressed to look at the world news. There I read this report:
Tropical Cyclone Pam destroyed many homes as it made a direct hit on Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu. It kille ... (continued)
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"Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?"
President Henry B. Eyring
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker shares an example of his grandson understanding the principle of fasting and feeling that his fast could help a grieving friend.
Just as the receipt of the blessing of your fast offering and mine can change hearts, so does fasting for the good of another. Even a child can feel it.
Many children, and some adults, may for personal reasons find a 24-hour fast difficult. It can be, in the words of Isaiah, felt that the fast has "afflicted [their] soul." Wise parents recognize that possibility and so are careful to follow the counsel of President Joseph F. Smith: "Better to teach them the principle, and let them observe it ... (continued)
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"Is Not This the Fast That I Have Chosen?"
President Henry B. Eyring
- First Counselor in the First Presidency
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The speaker recounts the story of Sister Abie Turay from Sierra Leone, who survived a civil war and expressed gratitude for the fast offerings that helped her and her family during that time.
It happened in the life of Sister Abie Turay, who lives in Sierra Leone. A civil war began in 1991. It ravaged the country for years. Sierra Leone was already one of the poorest countries in the world. "During the war, it was unclear who [controlled] the country"”banks "¦ closed, government offices were shuttered, police forces [were ineffective against rebel forces], "¦ and there was chaos, killing and sorrow. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives and more than two million people ... (continued)
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"It Becometh Us to Fulfil All Righteousness"
President George Albert Smith
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The speaker reflects on the early pioneers' hardships and their choice to settle in Utah, preferring the company of Indians over staying with persecutors.
My grandfather came with the first company of pioneers. There were 143 men, three women, and two children. After he had been here for five or six years, one of his non Mormon friends asked him, "President Smith, why did you leave Nauvoo and all that fine country back there in New York and Missouri and come out to this God-forsaken land?"
The reply of my grandfather was, "Why, we came here willingly, because we had to."
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"It Becometh Us to Fulfil All Righteousness"
President George Albert Smith
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The speaker shares a story of a Jewish doctor who, after reading the Book of Mormon, expressed his belief in its divine origins.
I remember a very fine doctor, who was a good member of the Jewish church in Atlanta, Georgia, and who read the Book of Mormon. I became well-acquainted with him, and he said to me one day, "There isn't a man living in the world today that could write the Book of Mormon. It must be something more than the work of man."
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"It Becometh Us to Fulfil All Righteousness"
President George Albert Smith
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The speaker recounts the biblical story of Jesus Christ's early life, his baptism by John the Baptist, and his divine mission.
I remember I attended a conference in Canada once, and it so happened that I referred in my remarks during the evening to our faith in the divine mission of Jesus Christ, that we believed that the Lord prepared the way for the coming of Jesus of Nazareth; prepared Mary to be his mother and Joseph to act as his earthly father. And then Herod, in an attempt to destroy him, sent out a decree that the children in Bethlehem and the country round about who were two years old and under were to be slain ... (continued)
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"It Becometh Us to Fulfil All Righteousness"
President George Albert Smith
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The speaker describes the biblical account of Jesus Christ's resurrection, his appearance to Mary Magdalene, and his later appearance to his disciples including Thomas.
We believe all that. But that was not the end. The Bible tells us that he had been taken down from the cross where he had been crucified and placed in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. After three days, when the women went to the tomb with spices and other things to prepare his body for burial as was customary, they found that the tomb was empty...Not very long after that, his disciples were gathered together in a room...All at once he materialized in that room—he did not have to wait for ... (continued)
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"It Becometh Us to Fulfil All Righteousness"
President George Albert Smith
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The speaker tells of Jesus Christ's visit to the American continent after his resurrection, as recorded in the Book of Mormon.
What did he mean? We do not know from the Bible, but there is another glorious record, the history of the ancestors of the American Indians, another scripture, the Book of Mormon, and in this scripture is recorded how he fulfilled that promise of going to his other sheep...Brethren and sisters, we have all the information that our Christian brothers and sisters do with regard to the life of the Savior in the Bible, and in addition to that, we have the story of his coming to the people on this we ... (continued)
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"It Becometh Us to Fulfil All Righteousness"
President George Albert Smith
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Joseph Smith's experience of seeing God the Father and Jesus Christ in the Sacred Grove is recounted.
In 1820 Joseph Smith, the boy prophet not yet fifteen years of age, seeking to know what Church he should join because of the confusion in his neighborhood—his mother insisted he belong to one church and his father to another—went out in the woods to pray...As he knelt there, the adversary sought to overpower him and he was stricken, but suddenly a bright light appeared...Two glorified Beings were standing in the air above him in the woods near Palmyra, New York. He saw them, and t ... (continued)
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"It Cannot Happen Here"
Elder Ezra Taft Benson
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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The children of Israel and their descendants repeatedly showed a willingness to give up their liberty, as seen with Moses and Samuel.
The children of Israel, willing to sacrifice liberty, wanted Moses to be their kingDeut. 17:14Generations later their descendants begged Samuel the prophet to give them a king1 Sam. 8:5He pointed out the fallacy of their reasoning. Samuel, like other great spiritual leaders, ancient and modern, saw the results that would follow the surrender of liberty.
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"It Cannot Happen Here"
Elder Ezra Taft Benson
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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Captain Moroni in the Book of Mormon fought for liberty and hoisted the title of liberty upon every tower.
Then Moroni, the chief commander of the armies dramatically ". . . rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it"”In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children"”and he fastened it upon the end of a pole. ". . . (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren" (seeAlma 46:12-13 This gre ... (continued)
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