"Not as the World Giveth"
Bishop Robert L. Simpson
- First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts learning simple division at the age of eight and feeling confident in his knowledge after checking his answers on a test, resulting in an 'A'.
I remember the thrill of being taught simple division. Three goes into fifteen five times. It seemed almost like a miracle as the teacher further taught us that all we had to do was multiply the answer by the divisor, and we would have the number that we started with. She said that by following this simple plan and procedure we could check any division problem and make certain that the answer was right.
A few days later we had our first test in simple division. I shall never forget turning to my ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Not My Will, but Thine"
Elder Robert L. Simpson
- Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
President Opie and his missionaries attend the priesthood meeting in Perth, Australia, while Carlos in Argentina stays up late to participate.
Thanks to the modern-day miracle of such things as transistors, coaxial cables, and earth-orbiting satellites, other thousands are able to join with us in faraway places. Way over in Perth, Australia, halfway around the world from Salt Lake City, I can visualize Bruce Opie, the mission president, sitting in the midst of his missionaries as they attend this priesthood meeting on the shores of the Indian Ocean. It is already tomorrow morning where they are.
Then there is young Carlos down in Argen ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Not My Will, but Thine"
Elder Robert L. Simpson
- Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
A returned missionary from Australia-New Zealand shares the personal growth and benefits experienced from serving a mission.
Just about four months ago a missionary was released from one of our Australia-New Zealand missions and in the following report talks about the Lord"™s interest payments or dividends received following an investment of two years in His service. The missionary writes:
"First and foremost, I learned the importance and power of prayer"”I learned to communicate with the Lord, and how to recognize His answers"”even when He says no. I learned about having implicit faith and trust in the Lord, so ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Not My Will, but Thine"
Elder Robert L. Simpson
- Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
Elder Anguiano, a Spanish-speaking missionary, is called to serve in New Zealand and finds a Spanish-speaking Chilean family to teach.
Let me conclude by sharing with you a recent episode in the life of Elder Anguiano, a young Mexican-American who prepared for a Spanish-speaking mission, only to be called by the prophet to serve in Christchurch, New Zealand, of all places! Imagine a young man with Spanish as his prime language being sent to a country where the Spanish language is spoken very rarely, if ever!
As President Philip Sonntag waited at the airport for his one lone missionary to arrive, his mind was seeking for divine ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Not Yet, Dear Lord, Not Yet"
Bishop Thorpe B. Isaacson
- First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on President Moyle's humble address and prayer, likening it to a prayer offered in the temple, and praises his selfless service to the Church and to Saints in Europe.
I know we have been deeply touched this morning by the inspiring address of President Henry D. Moyle. May I be pardoned if I tell you this morning that I thought his humble and yet beautiful address was just like the prayer he offered a few days ago in an upper room of the temple when the General Authorities met there preparatory to this great conference. As he spoke to you this morning, he had a prayer in his heart for you, the membership of the Church, and for our friends not of the Church; an ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Not Yet, Dear Lord, Not Yet"
Bishop Thorpe B. Isaacson
- First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts his critical illness, the thin line between life and death, and his gratitude for being alive, which was reinforced by the power of the priesthood and the prayers of others.
Today, if I may, I would like to take just one sentence from President McKay's beautiful dedicatory prayer offered at the London Temple, and may I quote from that one sentence. Speaking to the Lord, he said: 'May we express overwhelming gratitude just to be alive.' I have a personal reason this morning for repeating this sentence from President McKay's dedicatory prayer, because today I am truly grateful just to be alive. A few months ago I became critically ill, and I learned then, as I have ne ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Now Abideth Faith, Hope, and Charity"
Bishop Vaughn J. Featherstone
- Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric
📅 0
📖 general conference
Brother Les Goates recounts the tragic impact of the Spanish influenza on his family in 1918, including the death of several family members and the community's help in harvesting their sugar beet crop.
I have a great friend, Brother Les Goates, a great and gifted writer, and I asked him if I could lift a part of a story. He told how welfare first came into his home: 'But ‘as for me and my house,’ the welfare program began in the Old Field west of Lehi on the Saratoga Road in the autumn of 1918, that terribly climactic year of World War I during which more than 14 million people died of that awful scourge ‘the black plague,’ or Spanish influenza. Winter came early that ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"O That I Were an Angel, and Could Have the Wish of Mine Heart"
President Gordon B. Hinckley
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts the dedication of the Nauvoo temple as a memorable event and a tribute to the Prophet Joseph Smith, detailing the efforts and sacrifices made by the early Saints to build the original temple despite hardships and the death of their leaders.
Many of you participated in the dedication of the Nauvoo temple last June. It was a great and marvelous occasion, one to be long remembered. We not only dedicated a magnificent building, a house of the Lord, but we also dedicated a beautiful memorial to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
In 1841, two years after he came to Nauvoo, he broke ground for a house of the Lord that should stand as a crowning jewel to the work of God.
It is difficult to believe that in those conditions and under those circumstan ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"O That I Were an Angel, and Could Have the Wish of Mine Heart"
President Gordon B. Hinckley
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker describes the rebuilding of the Nauvoo temple, initiated by inspiration and the desire to honor the sacrifices of the past, culminating in the dedication of the new temple on the same site as the original.
Nauvoo became almost a ghost city. It faded until it almost died. The site of the temple was plowed and planted. The years passed, and there slowly followed an awakening. Our people, descendants of those who once lived there, had stir within them the memories of their forebears, with a desire to honor those who had paid so terrible a price. Gradually the city came alive again, and there was a restoration of parts of Nauvoo.
Under the prompting of the Spirit, and motivated by the desires of my fa ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Of You It Is Required to Forgive"
Elder Gordon B. Hinckley
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
Hauchecome, a peasant, is falsely accused of theft after picking up a piece of string, becomes obsessed with the injustice, and eventually dies in bitterness.
Guy de Maupassant, the French writer, tells the story of a peasant named Hauchecome who came on market day to the village. While walking through the public square, his eye caught sight of a piece of string lying on the cobblestones. He picked it up and put it in his pocket. His actions were observed by the village harness maker with whom he had previously had a dispute. Later in the day the loss of a purse as reported. Hauchecome was arrested on the accusation of the harness maker. He was taken ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Of You It Is Required to Forgive"
Elder Gordon B. Hinckley
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
Joseph F. Smith, despite being the target of ridicule and criticism, responded with a forgiving attitude and focused on leading the Church forward.
Joseph F. Smith presided over the Church at a time of great bitterness toward our people. He was the target of vile accusations, of a veritable drumbeat of criticism by editorial writers even in this community. He was lampooned, cartooned, and ridiculed. Listen to his response to those who made sport of demeaning him: 'Let them alone. Let them go. Give them the liberty of speech they want. Let them tell their own story and write their own doom.' (Gospel Doctrine,5th ed., Salt Like City: Deseret ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Of You It Is Required to Forgive"
Elder Gordon B. Hinckley
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
A couple who once had deep love allowed small mistakes to fester into bitterness, leading to a divorce filled with loneliness and recrimination.
Not long ago I listened at length to a couple who sat across the desk from me. There was bitterness between them. I know that at one time their love was deep and true. But each had developed a habit of speaking of the faults of the other. Unwilling to forgive the kind of mistakes we all make, and unwilling to forget them and live above them with forbearance, they had carped at one another until the love they once knew had been smothered. It had turned to ashes with the decree of a so-called no f ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Of You It Is Required to Forgive"
Elder Gordon B. Hinckley
- Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The biblical story of the prodigal son who squanders his inheritance but is later forgiven and welcomed back by his father.
I know of no more beautiful story in all literature than that found in the fifteenth chapter of Luke. It is the story of a repentant son and a forgiving father. It is the story of the son who wasted his inheritance in riotous living, rejecting his father’s counsel, spurning those who loved him. When he had spent all, he was hungry and friendless, and 'when he came to himself' Luke 15:17 he turned back to his father, who, on seeing him afar off, 'ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him' ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
Two men constructing displays for the American Bicentennial in Boston joke about the frequency of the celebration.
Some weeks ago in the summer heat of Boston, two men worked vigorously and perspired mightily to construct displays for the American Bicentennial. One stopped to mop his brow and asked the other, 'Do we really have to go through this every 200 years?'
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on the historical significance of Boston and the American Revolution, mentioning Paul Revere's Ride.
Boston is a proper place to begin; Boston, in fact, is 'a very proper place.' We who have prayed, preached, and tracted in lovely New England did not find it at all that formal. It is a charming place with friendly, wonderful people, and just now, a very successful baseball team"”it has a melting-pot of names like Petrocelli, Lynn, Rice, Carlton Fisk, and a thinking, Polish player known as 'Yaz' for Yastrzemski"”and on all sides the 'where it happened' of precious American tradition. Indeed, ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker suggests an imaginative tour of historical American Revolutionary War sites to reflect on the nation's founding and the people who shaped it.
As you decide, let me suggest an exciting tour for you. Go, if you can"”and if you cannot, then make the trip in your mind"™s eye from your study or your armchair or your library, butgo"”go to Charlestown and Breed"™s Hill, to Washington"™s Crossing, Brandywine Creek, Saratoga, to the great courthouse and a dozen more, and to King"™s Mountain and Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse on the road to Yorktown, where it finally ended.
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts his experience liberating a concentration camp during World War II and meeting a Protestant minister who asked for an American flag.
But even a divine constitution requires something further; it demands a kind of people who will, by their very natures, receive and respect such a constitution and function well within the conditions it establishes. Where indeed shall we find such people today? I recall one. It was in a concentration camp I helped liberate during World War II. As we blew the lock off the door and tried to assist the miserable and the painful inside, I was interrupted by a tap on my boot and found, wallowing in t ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker describes his proposed sequence of steps the Lord used in His plan for America, from selecting the people to the restoration of the gospel.
As some of you know, I have never counted mathematics as my most exciting subject. Nevertheless, I believe that I can set in sequence the steps the Lord has used in his plan. First, there was selecting and bringing the people. The next step was establishing a free nation. The third was inspiring a divine constitution. The fourth was opening the American frontier, new land, fresh and clean. The fifth step was calling young Joseph Smith to become a prophet in such a little time, God"™s prophet, ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream"
Elder Paul H. Dunn
- Of the First Council of the Seventy
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on the sacrifice of American soldiers and the importance of honoring them by being righteous citizens and sharing the story of the Lord's work.
Let me add one final stop to your American journey. The place"”Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia"”the tomb of America"™s unknown soldier. Today the remains of three servicemen from three wars lie there. The inscription reminds us, 'Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.' There are in addition 4,724 other unknown servicemen buried in Arlington, and all across the nation and the world I have seen the crosses, row upon row, marking the places where ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →
"One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism"
Elder LeGrand Richards
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts a childhood experience of being inspired by missionaries to desire a mission call and preparing for it by studying scripture.
I think I have been a missionary nearly all my life. When I was just a little fellow, I remember attending a ward meeting where two missionaries, returning from the Southern States, gave their report. I do not know whether they said anything unusual or not, but if they did not, the Lord did something unusual for me, because when I left that meeting I felt that I could have walked to any mission field in the world, if I had just had a call, and so I went home and got down on my knees and asked th ... (continued)
Forgiveness
Read Full Talk →