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Sunday Afternoon Session
Conducting: Quentin L Cook
Come Rejoice
D Todd Christofferson
- A limiting trait is not being valiant in your testimony
- Wholehearted devotion is what we should strive for
- To make it to and stay in the Celestial Kingdom we must have a firm testimony of Jesus Christ and act on that testimony
- Being Valiant in your testimony of Christ
- Includes nurturing and strengthening that testimony
- Heading His messengers
- Encouraging others by word and example
- We will not let anything keep us from being together forever
- Do the things Jesus shall teach and command you
Taylor G Godoy
- God hears our prayers and answers them in a personalized way
- Mosiah 5:12
- This life by its nature brings about experiences
- Call Him, don’t fall
- Just because you aren’t answered immediately doesn’t mean your call wasn’t answered at all
- Confidence in the Lord’s answers requires accepting that they are not always what would expect in our minds for them to be.
- The Lord is the first option for help
- Call Don’t Fall (pray)
- After prayer do all you can to obtain the answers you pray for
- Humbly accept His answers
Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling
Gary E Stevenson
- Where is the foundation of your bridge?
- The two towers are love the Lord thy God and love your neighbor as thyself – these are the towers that the bridge of the gospel is supported by
- Loving the Lord leads to eternal Happiness
- Bridges our heavenly upward gaze to our heavenly outward gaze
- Love of the Lord is not complete if we do not love our neighbors
- Loving your neighbors includes Christlike deeps of love and service
- How are you building your tower of love?
- “did God call on you specifically, or were you simply the one who listened?”
- These towers need to function together in balance, equal devotion, and harmony
- God loves everyone and so should we; we seek out those in need and serve them regardless of race, wealth, gender identity, sexual orientation, or anything else
- God commanded us to love one another. Leave judgement up to Him
- How do we build our own bridge of faith and devotion?
- Early drafts become polished blueprints
Mathias Held
- Consequences are a part of agency
- Repentance is where growth happens
- Seek to learn and accept support from the Lord
- In the darkness of night we can turn on our lights
- We can still choose how to respond to things out of our control
- We are agents not objects.
- Opposites don’t exist apart from each other, they can complement each other.
- Where there is sunshine, shadows must be there too. Floods brings destruction but they bring life as well
- Our difficulties do not define us – it is our attitudes and choices that define us much better than our situations
How Firm a Foundation
Niel L Anderson
- It is breathtaking to see the works of God
- Discipline your faith, what does that mean to you?
- Eleazer Cearcy – sealing story – this is why listen to promptings
- Angels have charge over us
- Through the power of the Holy Ghost we are filled with strength and peace and joy and unspeakable hope.
- Many different ways to see the face of Christ and no better place than in His holy house
Mark L Pace
- Transform our homes into sanctuaries of faith
- The scriptures are here to help us draw closer to Him
- How can you avoid personal apostasy?
- We are responsible for our own personal spiritual growth
- The most important copy of the book of Mormon is the one you read
- Heavenly Father wants you to know yourself – but you must put in the effort
Russell M Nelson
- Called to apostles 40 years ago!
- Six temples when he was born
- Ponder what the Lord’s promise means for you personally
- The priesthood was restored prior to the church – to ensure that the church could be organized with the correct authority
- The priesthood keys are the only way we get the essential ordinances and covenants, the only way we can have blessings the way we do – we can extend all the blessings promised to/by Abraham to all God’s children
- D&C 110
- The gathering of Israel is evidence God loves all of His children everywhere
- The gospel of Abraham is further evidence that God loves all of His children everywhere
- The sealing power is supreme evidence that God loves all of His children everywhere and wants them to return to Him
- Study Kirtland temple dedicatory prayer in D&C 109
- Regular temple worship will enhance how you see yourself
- The temple empowers us to take on the challenges of life
- You do not have to face life alone
- What courage does it give you to know that angels really will help you?
- No combination of wickedness will prevail over those who worship in the house of the Lord
- Nothing will help you more to hold fast to the iron rod than attending the temple as regularly as you can, nothing will protect you more, nothing will bolster your testimony of Christ and His atonement, or recognize the significance of His plan, nothing will soothe your spirit more, nothing will open the blessings of Heavens more
- 15 temples:
- Uturoa, French Polynesia
- Chihuahua, Mexico
- Florianopolis, Brazil
- Rosario, Argentina
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Brisbane, Australia South Area
- Victoria, British Colombia
- Yuma, Arizona
- Houston, Texas South Area
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Honolulu Hawaii
- West Jordan Utah
- Lehi Utah
- Maracaibo, Venezuela
Now Let Us Rejoice
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Sunday Morning Session
Awake and Arise O Ye Slumbering Nations
Conducting: Henry B Eyring (in a chair!!)
Come Ye Children of the Lord
Ronald A Rasband
- Words matter – they are the bedrock of how we connect and represent our beliefs, morals etc.
- First and foremost the Lords words matter
- If a man love me he will keep my words
- Believing and heading the word of God will draw us closer to Him – our ability to be like Him will increase
- D&C 6:2,
- The words of Prophets matter
- The Prophet hears and speaks the words of the Lord
- THINK CELESTIAL
- Diligently ACT upon his words – because he is the voice of the Lord on the earth today
- Our own words matter
- In our emoji filled world, our words matter!
- Be careful what you say and how you say it
- Thank you, I am sorry, and I Love You
- These are not to be saved for special occasions! Use them constantly and cheerfully
- The Words of Christ will tell you all things that you should do!
Susan H Porter
- Our Heavenly Father LOVES YOU. You are His child. He Knows You. He will Bless You.
- Pray to know
- What do you need to know?
- Heavenly Father are you really there? And do you hear and answer every childs prayer?
- “Wait. I’m not alone. I have Christ.”
- Cute children ugh
- Often the best question to ask is not why but what
- Pray to grow
- He wants to help us grow!
- Sent Christ to help us live
- What do you need to grow? Patience, kindness, etc
- Skills and sttributes
- Pray to show.
- Nephis bow
- Heavenly Father does not force anyone to make a choice
- Are you praying for blessings for your family and those you love? Don’t give up.
- Don’t Stop Praying – Matthew West?
- I know He lives and loves you – Pray. He is there.
A Childs Prayer
Dale G. Renlund
- Kayaking excursion story
- “A large wave, this big”
- Keep paddling, maintaining your momentum and you will be fine
- If we maintain spiritual momentum by continuously going toward the Savior, then we are secure
- Maintain your momentum: faith, repentance, baptism/covenants, gift of the Holy Ghost, endure to the end
- Enduring to the end is repeatedly doing the other for over and over again
- Building and improving with each repetition – drawing us closer to Jesus Christ each time
- This momentum requires speed and direction – if we are continually rowing as hard as we can in the wrong direction, we will not make it where we need to go
- Doing spiritual things needs to happen daily – just like it doesn’t work to binge food once a week on Sundays, it also doesn’t help us build spiritual momentum if we are only doing spiritual things once a week
- We can always keep going, no matter how many times we’ve fallen; the important part is that we do not give up (circling back to the story - stopping for a rest is not giving up)
- We must never stop failing, because the minute we do, we’ve failed.
- Multiple covenants draw us closer to Christ and connect us more strongly to Him
- The covenants are not in and of themselves the source of power – the source is our Savior Jesus Christ and the covenants are the conduit to that source
- Comparing ourselves to others can lead to errors
- Don’t judge others for struggling when you are struggling too
- None of us earn salvation – we never can. ALL of us need all of the Saviors Infinite Atonement, not just part of it.
- Our judgement is neither helpful nor welcome, and is most often ill informed.
Paul B Pieper
- Trust exercises
- It is not a relationship if one person trusts completely and the other does not
- Trust is the foundation of all relationships
- Use the precious gift of repentance liberally
- Sometimes we just need to be willing to fall backward and let Him catch us
- To build trust in the Lord: Learn about Heavenly Father, notice things He does for us, sometimes do crazy trust exercises
- Sometimes the best way to trust God is just to trust Him
- He is always stretching us to help us realize more of our divine potential – allow Him to give you more soul stretching experiences
- Trust Him just a little bit more
- If we ignore or decline an invitation our progress stops
- We can choose to trust God today and every day going forward. Each time we do, God will be there to catch us and our relationship with Him will grow stronger and stronger.
Redeemer of Israel
Patrick Kearon
- His plan is designed to bring you home, not to keep you out. No one has built a roadblock and stationed someone there to keep you away – instead God is relentlessly seeking you
- Christ’s great atoning gift removes every roadblock that would separate us from our spiritual home
- This life is the time to make mistakes, to learn and grow, to love God and our neighbor, and to return home
- The intent of the Father’s plan of happiness is your happiness. The intent of the Father’s plan of redemption is your redemption. The intent of the Father’s plan of mercy is to extend mercy. The intent of the Father’s plan of salvation is your salvation
- We still need to change and repent and turn towards Him
- God always wants for us a radical reorientation
- Transformative faith in Christ
- None is excluded from this divine potential
- He goes in search of His lost sheep until He finds you – He is not willing to leave any to perish. Infinite means infinite – covers you and those you love
- If you are prone to worry that you will never measure up, then you misunderstand.
- We do understand, can comprehend, the holy saving intent of His divine sacrifice.
- His intent, His wish and His hope is all to heal you, all to give you peace, all to bring you and those you love home.
Brian K Taylor
- Why do some receive their miracles quickly while others have to endure?
- We don’t know (lovely)
- We can choose to learn from our trials, but it is a choice
- Trusting in God’s divine purpose brings hope to weary souls
- My hands are not the hands that save – those hands belong to the Savior. – Remember the scars His hands bear on your behalf. Don’t look at your scars as a reminder of what you were unable to do.
- Stronger faith comes by putting Jesus Christ first
- John 16:33 “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
- Brighter hope comes by envisioning our eternal destiny
- Greater power comes by focusing on Joy
- “Christs joy eats our trials”
- John 14:18 “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”
His Eye is on the Sparrow
Dallin H. Oaks
- The purpose of Temples and the history and role of covenants
- Covenants are commitments
- Wedding rings are to remind the wearers and others of the covenants made
- See the end for the beginning and think Celestial
- Temple is to help teach about the plan of salvation and introduce sacred covenants
- Covenants do not take a day off!
- All things are ours in exaltation
- Being bound to Christ can give us strength
Lord, I Would Follow Thee
Saturday Afternoon Session
Conducting Gary E Stevenson
All Glory, Laud, and Honor
David A. Bednar
- Be Still and Know that I Am God
- Inner Spiritual Stillness of the Soul
- Be Still = focusing on the Savior
- Truth faith is focused in and on our Lord Jesus Christ
- Spiritual stillness = the opposite of inner turmoil
- A proper foundation ensures that the structure will remain sturdy and stable over time – requiring an attachment to bedrock.
- We build the foundation – the Savior is the rock upon which we build
- Faith is built upon the Savior
- Sacred time and holy places are the same – focus your time and attention on God and His heavenly Plan
- Sometimes being still means on the inside not the outside
- Jesus is not the foundation He is the Rock upon which we build.
- We may be perplexed by our trials and circumstances, but we will never be in despair.
- The gospel doesn’t keep you from trials, but allows you to deal with them with the help of the Lord
Massimo De Feo
- My physical sight is not good – what about my spiritual vision? Do I need any treatment there.
- Can you see Christ spiritually, not physically? Or are you like the pharaseees?
- We keep a clear spiritual vision when we focus on Jesus Christ and stay true to what we know to be true.
- What we know to be true: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Don’t listen to the voices in the world that say that loving everyone isn’t reasonable/necessary/possible.
- Declare your testimony in its entirety; don’t let anyone silence you
- We keep a clear spiritual vision when we hear the voice of the Lord and allow Him to guide us.
- Keeping a clear spiritual vision is about focusing my sight always on Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ is the answer for everyone
God Loved Us So He Sent His Son
Brent H Nielson
- Witnesses of Christ
- There has never been a better time to be a member of the church than today
- 335 operating and announced temples!!!
- You should leave the bubble
- The truth of God will go forth everywhere
- You and I are witnesses
- Gathering israel has both missionary work and family history work
- We are armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory
Jose L Alonso
- Where do you find peace?
- If we put the Savior at the center of our lives, we can find peace
- Feeding 5000 men – plus women and children (Matt 14:21). Jesus gave thanks to his father, he was grateful rather than complaining that was all they had.
- Solutions to our trials often don’t come from ourselves – but in God
- “Imagine how much love he has for us if Christ was looking for peace and solitude, and he welcomed everyone to heal and help them”
- When we encounter challenges, turn beyond them to Christ, and trust in his help
- Even when looking for peace and solitude, Christ focused outside of Himself and welcomed everyone to heal and help them!
- Adopting a Christ-centered perspective helps us turn trials into victories
- Christ is a Healer, and we are ever-present in His mind and heart
Praise to the Lord the Almighty
Gerritt W Gong
- 194 years since the restoration of the gospel!
- Things will work together for our good
- Sometimes we just need to have someone there when we’re upset – and that someone can always be God
- Trusting the Lord can include trusting Him with our suffering and anger and misery
- When we work together for good, we minister as Jesus Christ would
- Spiritual First Responders
- Going from neighbors who bring cookies to trusted friends
- What happened there and then can bless us here and now
Michael T. Nelson
- We can be trustworthy, beloved leaders of youth like Helaman and the stripling warriors: build relationships with them, council them, support them
- Parents have a primary responsibility for teaching their children
- No one serves in the church alone
- Heavenly Father wants us to reach out to others, including the youth
- Help them learn who they really are through how you feel about them
- Follow promptings, even though we’re not perfect, to build relationships of love and trust
- No program can replace the influence of loving, covenant keeping adults
How Great the Wisdom and the Love
Quinten L Cook
- My focus should be on the Savior and on the Saviors Atonement
- We are all children of a loving Heavenly Father
- The Savior is the Keeper of the Gate
- And He is the one who also pleads in our behalf
- Being one with Christ = loving and building community
- Requirements for baptism are uniquely simple – repenting before God
- D&C 25 basic doctrine of the restored Church
- All are invited to partake of the Lords Goodness and all are alike unto God
- None are forbidden
- All accountable persons are required to atone for their sins
- All have a choice – all have agency
- Essential to the plan of salvation
- All are able to use their agency and ACT
- Exercise our moral agency to choose Christ and keep His commandments
- 2 Nephi 26:33
- Both poor and rich have the same spiritual requirements
- Many things occur of which we have little to no control
- There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Without agency we could not learn, progress, or choose immortal life
We Will Sing of Zion
I don't know if I can do notes for evening session y'all I am struggling to concentrate
Saturday Morning Session
Come Ye That Love the Lord
Conducting: Dallin H Oaks
The Morning Breaks
Sustaining vote – in the morning session? Normally afternoon
Church audit report – in the morning session? Normally afternoon
Did You Think to Pray
Jeffrey R. Holland
- Awwwww the most fortunate of men!
- More concentration, focus on the Savior, hope on His word, etc.
- “Thanks are the highest form of thought. Gratitude is Happiness doubled by Wonder.” – Chesterton?
- God hears every prayer we offer.
- Prayers are often answered differently than we expect
- Our prayers are our sweetest hour, our most sincere desire, our most purest form of worship
- Hesitation to pray doesn’t come from God.
- Prayers should be spoken out loud. -It is a conversation with God
- Listen to the spirit to know how to pray
- If you don’t know what to pray for, just pray anyway!
- Even the Savior had to pray to be closer to His Father – even He could pray “more earnestly.”
J Anette Dennis
- You can look for a deeper meaning in all the things you read – how does this bring you closer to the Savior?
- Jesus Christ is the center of ALL covenants we make.
- Covenant relationships bless us, but it is out choice as to how,
- Everything done in the Temple points to Gods plan for us. -Prayerfully seek the further meanings
- Our symbolic outer clothing is only worn in the temple. Other than the garments, although those show that Jesus covers us.
- Armor of Light – which is Christ
- Choose to have a relationship with God by making and keeping covenants with Him
Alexander Dushku
- Restoration began with a boys desperate prayer and a pillar of light
- Rather than a pillar of light, the Lord sends us a ray of light – and then another, and then another
- How do you experience the rays of light from the Lord? -Peace, impressions, desires, testimonies, hopefulness, prayer, feeling the love of God as you serve others
- If we’re believing and repenting, we ARE living in revelation, even if we don’t recognize it or think we are experiencing it.
- You cannot always expect big miracles and pillars of light – the Light comes line upon line, precept upon precept, here a ray and there a ray
- Experiencing depression and anxiety make it difficult (sometimes impossible) to recognize the Spirit - Sometimes we don’t even know we are feeling the Spirit at all until after the fact!
- Perhaps one ray is not enough for a Testimony, but together they can become a Light that will scare away the darkness.
- D&C 93:36 “The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth.”
- D&C 50:24 “That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth light, and continueth in God, receiveth more light; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day.”
Press Forward Saints
Ulisses Soares
- Covenant confidence through Christ
- When we enter the Lords house, we embark on a sacred journey to become like Christ
- What happens IN the temples is important
- Remain Confident in Christ
- Confidence in the covenants made with Jesus Christ is something you should pass on to your children
- “My disciples shall stand in holy places and not be moved.”
- Go to the temple with confidence and humility - Make preparations to go – not just for those going for the first time. We should be perpetually preparing - Will help with anxiety about worthiness
- Home centered, Church supported, Temple Bound - Being Temple bound connects us to the Savior
- Cast not away your confidence, instead let your confidence wax strong.
Jack N Gerard
- Jesus Christ is our exemplar. - Integrity means being true to God, to each other, and to our identity.
- Do what is right, let the consequence follow.
- Exercise integrity in your choices
- Would others see God through my conduct?
- A life of integrity is not a life of perfection - Due to the fact that during this life you literally cannot be perfect - Perfection exists but not in me
- Christian kindness is not a substitute for integrity - Meaning don’t be fake in your kindness? - Don’t be hypocrites?
I Know that My Savior Loves Me
Henry B Eyring
- Story about going to the temple and finding out after the sealing that people have lost houses (teton dam break) and they left their kids at home and had to spend the night in a hotel and couldn’t make it home
- “How can you sleep at a time like this?” - Whatever the outcome, all will be well because of the temple. We have made covenants - Apostles at gethsemane
- John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
- God will not abandon His relationship to all those who have covenanted with Him - He will never tire in His efforts to help us, and we will never exhaust His willingness to support us
- Light and hope can come from keeping covenants, and they are opportunities to draw closer to God
We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet
Like normal I am typing all notes then posting them :)
and participating in group docs
Temples
Savai’i, Samoa
Cancún, Mexico
Piura, Peru
Huancayo, Peru
Viña del Mar, Chile
Goiãnia, Brazil
João Pessoa, Brazil
Calabar, Nigeria
Cape Coast, Ghana
Luanda, Angola
Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Laoag, Philippines
Osaka, Japan
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Roanoke, Virginia
Kahului, Hawaii
Fairbanks, Alaska
Vancouver, Washington
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Sunday Afternoon Session
Conducting: Henry B. Eyring
For All the Saints
Elder Dale G. Renlund
- King Tutankhamun and the finding of Tuts tomb
- He is our mark – if we imagine there is something beyond what He offers, we deny all His blessings
- Focus on Him intentionally
- Baptismal water doesn’t wash away sins. That is why we have the opportunity to repent.
- Approach the sacrament the same way a new convert approaches baptism – with a contrite heart and spirit
- With the temple close it can be easy to let little things get in the way of attending – do not take the temple for granted. When we do we look beyond the mark
- Do not praise exotic sources for being enlightened – sometimes that is not the case
- Remember and always focus on Jesus Christ. He is our Savior and Redeemer, the Mark towards whom we should look, and our Greatest Treasure
Elder John C Pingree Jr. 70
- What is our understanding of truth in today’s world?
- What is truth and why is it important?
- Where do we find truth?
- When we find truth how do we share it?
- 1 God is THE source of eternal truth.
- 2 The Holy Ghost testifies of all truth.
- 3 Prophets receive truth from God, and share that truth with us
- 4 We all play a crucial role in this process. God expects us to seek, receive and act on truth
- Our ability to receive and understand truth is dependent on our relationship with God
- Is the concept taught consistently in the scriptures and by living prophets?
- Is it confirmed by the Holy Ghost?
- Doctrine = eternal truths such as God is our eternal Father, Christ’s atonement etc
- Unchangeable
- Policy =application of doctrine based on current circumstances
- Subject to change
- Teach truth in a way that invites the converting power of the Holy Ghost
- Truth should be conveyed with Christlike love – love without truth is hollow and lacks the promise of growth
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
Elder Valeri V Cordon, 70
- Help children establish a gospel culture
- Righteous Intentional Parenting
- 1 Teach Freely
- Liberally, generously, and without restraint
- Spend meaningful time with them, use church resources (church moveis, come follow me)
- 2 Model Discipleship
- By example keep the sabbath day holy, keep temple covenants.
- 3 Invite to Act
- To seek individual revelation, work for and nurture their own testimony
- We are God’s agents for our children. Create an environment where they can feel His love and guidance.
- Accidental conversion is not a principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ
- God will do everything He can without violating your agency.
- As a parent you should do the same
Elder J. Kimo Esplin, 70
- Hawaii and the battle of Okinawa
- Baptisms for the dead, and temple work. People being taught in the spirit world.
- Temple blessings can heal so much.
- The Saviors work is to bind people together
Rejoice the Lord is King
Elder Garrit W. Gong Q of 12
- Morse code locket “I I you”
- Multilingual “I” “I” (Chinese ai) “You” = I love you
- Languages of Gospel love
- Warmth and Reverence
- Service and Sacrifice
- Covenant and Belonging
- Daily sacrifices matter
- Remember to speak with warmth and reverence about the Lord’s work
- Sometimes things can affect our ability to serve, but hopefully never our desire
- You need to feel the Lord’s love for those you serve – and for you when you serve.
- When we serve in the gospel together, we find fewer faults and greater peace
- Remember to minister with your hearts
- Sociality and service often go together
- The more we serve the better we can understand the nature of Christ.
Elder Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier 70
- 1 Samuel 16:7
- God looks on the heart
- We are His children, all of us without exception.
- How sad is it that we honor labels more than we honor each other?
- The gospel of Jesus Christ is the mediator
- Discrimination is not ok
- How we treat each other really matters.
- I’ll Walk with You children’s song
- Like Christ love others because it is the right thing to do.
Consider the Lillies
President Russell M. Nelson
- What is the secret to living so long?
- No what have I learned in almost a century if living
- Heavenly Fathers plan for us is fabulous
- This plan takes the mystery out of what comes next
- What we do in this life matters
- Savior’s atonement makes the plan possible
- Adopt the practice of Thinking Celestial tm
- Being spiritually minding
- Mortality is a masterclass in learning what is of greatest eternal importance
- Begin with the end in mind – carefully consider where each of your decisions will put you in the next life
- Where will each decision place you? You get to choose
- Take the long view – the eternal view
- Put Jesus Christ first
- Your obsession becomes your god – you look to it rather than to Him for solace
- Struggling with addiction? Seek professional and spiritual help
- Be chaste to attain celestial glory
- Seek guidance from trusted voices
- There are lots of things we can do to build faith
- Temples!
- Savai’i, Samoa
- Cancún, Mexico
- Piura, Peru
- Huancayo, Peru
- Viña del Mar, Chile
- Goiãnia, Brazil
- João Pessoa, Brazil
- Calabar, Nigeria
- Cape Coast, Ghana
- Luanda, Angola
- Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Laoag, Philippines
- Osaka, Japan
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Roanoke, Virginia
- Kahului, Hawaii
- Fairbanks, Alaska
- Vancouver, Washington
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Fun fact: he has announced 153 temples since becoming prophet
Teach me to Walk in the Light
“Your obsession becomes your god - you look to it rather than to Him got solace.” - President Nelson
I hope he is still the one to announce temples too!!
Sunday Morning Session
Sweet is the Work
Conducting: Dallin H. Oaks
Go Forth with Faith
I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus
President M. Russell Ballard, Q of 12
- Joseph Smith and the first vision
- We are blessed by Joseph’s ministry
- We have the knowledge that Jesus is the Christ because Joseph was worthy to get the plates
- It is important to ensure your children know you believe them – and believe in them
- Be a little better, a little kinder, a little more prepared.
- He’s our Savior and Redeemer, our best friend
President Emily Belle Freeman, YW President
- The Jesus Trail
- The five finger promise
- He doesn’t ask us to face challenges alone. He will invite us to walk with Him
- He has promised to walk with us in the way
- Jesus will meet us where we are, as we are
- His is a mission of condescension – He will meet us where we are as we are
- Staying where we are won’t bring us the deliverance we seek
- It’s the covenant relationship that saves us
- Just like a marriage, the wedding date is important but ultimately it’s what comes after
- What relationship do you want to have with Him?
- If you want to live in a continuous covenant relationship with him
- Your place or placement on the path is not as important as progress
- It’s not the course alone that will save us, it’s the companion our Savior
Adilson de Paula Parrella, 70
- Witness through actions and words that Jesus is the Christ
- Take upon you the name of Christ
- Spain – attending a small church meeting
- Brazil story
- Everything in church (talks, testimonies, etc) should be about and focused on Jesus
Elder Quintin L. Cook, Q of 12
- This is the time to prepare to meet God
- Be the peacemakers
- Have a peaceable walk among the children of men
- Be peaceable followers of Jesus Christ
- Which act of the play am I stuck in?
- There are three acts to the play (in the plan of happiness), which act are we going to participate in?
- If you come in to the performance in the third act of the play you will lack the context of what happened prior
- Praise the Lord with singing, music and dancing
- If you are sorrowful, call on the Lord with supplication that your souls may be joyful
- Being joyful and relying on Heavenly help through prayer is a great way to be peaceable
- Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal – Hymn Come, Ye Disconsolate
Come Ye Children of the Lord
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Q of 12
- The Greatest Short Story ever told
- The prodigal son Luke 15:11-32
- #livingmybestlife
- He will help you and shelter you no matter what has happened
- Even after you squander your entire inheritance
- “It wasn’t just an empty stomach that bothered him, it was an empty soul”
- Even when you feel no longer worthy, and decide that you must be only worthy for the lowliest roll in the Fathers house, He instead celebrates that His child has returned home
- He will unconditionally allow us to return for forgiveness and mercy
- It is always possible to go back and become renewed
- It is never better to stay lost – Heaven will rejoice at our return
- Some of us may wonder if its even possible to go back, if its better just to stay lost. But Heavenly father will run to us!! And embrace us!!
- “It is not possible for you to sink lower than the light of Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice shines” - Elder Holland
- The Master Healer stands at the road that leads home, welcoming you
- Your return will not diminish the blessings of others
- Coming back is not an easy thing to do. It may be the toughest choice we make. But Christs power will enter our lives and transform it.
- Together we will rejoice – for Jesus Christ is our Strength.
- Hear the Father’s voice beckoning us to follow the road that leads home.
W. Christopher Waddell, 1st counselor Bishopric
- Ephraim’s rescue
- Bring as many people as you can safely home
- Hero worship can be taken too far – you can look beyond the mark and lose what is essential – Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ has done everything that is essential for our journey through mortality toward the destiny outlined in the plan of our Heavenly Father. -Dallin H. Oaks
- We need to be careful in choosing our hero, so that our hero worship does not become our golden calf
- If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, then you need to consider carefully what choices you have chosen
- Any choice other than choosing the kingdom of God will fail us
- Turn to Him, follow Him, choose Him.
- It is by choosing Him, the King of Kings, that we choose the kingdom of God.
Hark All Ye Nations
President Henry B. Eyring, 2nd counselor 1st Presidency
- Pray and heed promptings to gain inspiration and blessings
- Think and pray about Helaman’s sons Nephi and Lehi
- Helaman 11:23 (whole chapter tho)
- We need the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost – we desire it, but we know that it sometimes isn’t easy to achieve
- Remember the sacrament promise
- We can be guided by the spirit minute by minute
- Purity brings power
- Don’t give in to fear, He is there. Repent
- Don’t succumb to the fear that God has abandoned us or does not hear us.
- Of all the things the Holy Ghost testifies of, the most precious for us is that Jesus is the Christ, the Living Son of God.
- Your experiences will be unique and the spirt will guide in the way best suited to you and your experiences
- He loves you and He hears your every prayer
- The Holy Ghost is sent to faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ
- Your relationship with the Holy Ghost is unique to you
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
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Hey guys I’m not feeling the best so I will contribute in comments on the coop notes but I wont have any notes of my own for evening session. Sorry!
Saturday Afternoon Session
O Thou Rock of Our Salvation
Conducting Dallin H. Oaks
Henry B Eyring
- Sustaining votes
Jesus Once of Humble Birth
Niel L. Andersen
- Venezuela story about a bakery being saved in natural disasters
- Tithing can sometimes bring miracles.
- Put others first and
- trust in the Lord – the blessings of Heaven will follow
- My time is not mine – it is the Lord’s to whom I have consecrated it
- Tithing is not measured by the amount you contribute – the power comes from placing trust in the Lord
Jan E. Newman 2nd counselor Sunday school
- Jesus commanding the little children to come up to Him one by one
- Help children find the Savior in the scriptures and build their foundation on Him
- When we dig we have to dig deep – remember to dig as if for placing cement in the ground, because if you just dig normally and the ground is smooth at the bottom the cement will not adhere properly and the foundation will become unstable. You have to hit the jagged bedrock to have a fully set foundation
- Folow the example of Nephi
- Talk of Christ, Rejoice in Christ etc
- What does this look like? Whatever looks best for you
- You may feel inaudequate, but you should never feel alone
Joaquin E. Costa 70
- The source of that strength is Jesus Christ
- How do you show and exercise faith every day?
- Keeping covenants and following commandments are not transactional, they are transformational
- Come to Jesus to fix your life, don’t wait until your life is fixed to seek Him
- We don’t come to Jesus because we are perfect, we come to Him because we are flawed
There is Sunshine in My Soul today
Gary E Stevenson
- God given gifts – spiritual and otherwise
- Holy ghost, heal and be healed, miracles, wisdom, knowledge
- Sports/athleticism, art, photography, music etc
- Seek spiritual gifts to share with others
- There is a learning curve to spiritual gifts; keeping commandments, taking the sacrament, scripture study, prayer
- Stand in Holy Places
- Stand with holy people
- Testify of Holy Truths
- Listen to the Holy Spirit
- If you hope to feel the spirit, be with people whom the spirit may freely dwell
- Spiritual matters cannot be forced and you cannot dictate that for other people or yourself – they are not given for you to counsel others (unless you are a patriarch set apart by proper authority).
- Reminder that once you move out of your parents house they no longer have full impressions for you. They can still feel some for you as your parents, however after you move out YOU are the head of your household so they
Yoon Hwan Choi 70
- 1 Do you want to be happy?
- Sacred covenants that connect us fully to Heavenly Father help us be happy
- 2 are you on the covenant path?
- 3 how can keeping covenants with God keep you happy?
Alan T. Phillips 70
- Don’t leave your kids at service stations
- Lost sheep, lost coin, lost son
- Do not misunderstand or devalue how much meaning your life has to your Father in Heaven.
- True religion is the tie that binds us to God and to each other
- Our journey to God is often found together
- 1 (no idea, had a hard time focusing this afternoon!)
- 2 the redemptive power of Jesus Christ
- Make no mistake Christ is our rescuer and the healer of our souls
- The Savior is beckoning us to rely upon and call upon Him
- Heavenly Father’s love - perfect, glorified love for each one of us
- You do not have to do this alone. He can provide the strength and healing needed to face the road ahead. He will provide the shelter from the storm
- God’s plan of happiness is all about you, you are His child of great worth and He loves you
Ronald A. Rasband
- Nothing else compares in majesty or magnitude – the gathering of israel
- Always ask the Lord if the time is right to serve a mission – going on a mission, weather single or as a couple, if you are being forced into the decision, is never a good idea.
- The field is the world
- Senior missionaries change the very landscape with their testimonies of the Savior
- Take your knowhow plus your time honored testimonies
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty