These are the things that I heard at General Conference. Like I said, sometimes they are not the same as what the speakers actually said, but they are what I heard through the Spirit of the Lord.
Why do we worship on Sunday? Our attitudes and actions follow our dress. If we dress in our Sunday best on the Sabbath day, we will be on our Sunday best behavior.
Let us act on the Sabbath in a manner that would call down the blessings of heaven.
Children are the greatest example.
When little children come to us, they are thirsty for the gospel, eager to learn, and willing to be righteous.
Children are untarnished by the world.
“Behold your little ones.”
Followers of Christ are loving. Followers of Christ make and keep covenants. Following Christ may mean forsaking many things of the world. The Lord Jesus Christ made covenants with Heavenly Father. Jesus Christ needed baptism because He needed to make covenants with Heavenly Father that he would always remember Him and follow Him.
The power of our covenants is greater than any worldly trial or temptation.
Pain brings you an opportunity to ponder. Pain is everywhere in this mortal experience – sometimes it is simply because this is a temporal experience, sometimes because of the actions of others, sometimes because of our own actions.
There is relief for ANY and ALL pain – through Jesus Christ our Savior from our Father in Heaven.
Jesus Christ suffered ALL things so that He could understand us.
He could have known how to succor us by Revelation, but He chose to suffer all things so that He could understand us.
The United order = the Church’s welfare program.
When we work together, we build spiritual bonds.
Don’t miss out on collecting the little flecks because you are waiting for large nuggets.
The Spirit speaks to us in diverse ways.
God does notice us, and is mindful of us, but it is often through other people that He meets our needs.
The Lord sometimes reveals things to us that are for us only, but He entrusts us with a testimony of truth that we are to share with those around us.
The most effective way to share the gospel is through example.
“Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.”
This earth life is the perfect setting to experience and pass trials. Sometimes it seems that our trials are focused on the part of our lives in which we have the least ability to cope.
Being good is not enough. We want to be like the Savior.
It is our job as ward members to seek out those in our ward who are poor and needy.
Men and women work in a joint effort to serve the poor and needy.
The widow’s mite.
No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelation.
Light from a light switch vs. light from a sunrise. The sunrise pattern of revelation is more common in our lives.
As we honor our covenants and keep the commandments, we will gain confidence in the presence of the Lord.
The temple should fill us with the Spirit and with the covenants we have made there.
As we remember the covenants we have made in the temple, we will be better able to withstand the trials of this life.
A good marriage makes good children.
Heavenly Father is a God of high expectations. “Be ye therefore perfect.”
Divine chastening, repentance, and redirect our course. Divine chastening should give us cause to rejoice because it means we are worth correcting. The experience of chastening gives us more opportunity to help us put on the divine nature.
Parents and can must chasten their children.
Doctrine & Covenants – “when moved upon by the Holy Ghost”
One who does not chasten when he is in a position to do so is thinking only of himself.
Will a man rob God? In tithes and offerings.
The Lord’s richest blessings are spiritual – family, friends, and the gospel.
To be or not to be? What manner of me ought ye to be? Even as I am. To do without being is hypocrisy, to be without doing is void. Faith without works is dead.
Being is more important than doing. You can’t put a check mark on the “being.”
The name of the Church was not chosen by man, but was given by God. We are not “Mormons” – we are “Latter Day Saints”
The way is narrow and the path is laid strait.
God not only lives but HE SPEAKS!
General Conference is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
The summit of gospel discipleship is be ye therefore perfect.
One way or another, the Lord will have His voice heard.
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