Sunday Morning General Conference

Conducting: Henry B Eyring

Song: Come Ye Children of the Lord

Song: Praise to the Lord, The Almighty

Song: Teach Me to Walk in the Light

Choir: Tabernacle Choir – lavender

Dieter F Uchtdorf 2^nd Counselor of the First Presidency

• ·         Not so much a belief in the speakers but in the word of God
• ·         Spirit of Envy and Hatred
• ·         We put these dark motives behind others’ doings just from our own anger.
• ·         We must repent and we must be willing to forgive others, even God for dealing our justice in our lives
• ·        Do NOT justify your anger and judgment as righteous and appropriate
• ·         The moment we judge others we condemn ourselves
• ·         For evil we are afflicted and sorely chastened; Why should we feel anger and resentment towards God and others when we do what is wrong, why should we be surprised?

• ·         You shouldn’t think that no matter how upset or hurt One is that One cannot forgive others, even when the forgiveness is only going to help us.
• ·         When we start to judge others, STOP IT!
• ·         “Don’t judge me because I sin differently than you” Bumper Sticker
• ·        We all wish fervently to be forgiven for the sins we have made; how can we deny any measure of the grace that we so desperately desire for ourselves.
• ·         The more we allow the Love of God to govern our mind and emotions the more we allow the love of our Heavenly Father swell in our hearts we allow our heart to love others, and eventually the animosity will fade.
• ·         Let your Heart be filled with the Love of God
• ·         Do you harbor a grudge against someone else?
• ·         Do you gossip, even when what you say is true?
• ·         Do you exclude or push away others?
• ·         Do you wish to harm someone?
• ·         Do you secretly envy someone?
• ·         Give and it shall be given unto you; for the same measure that you use the same shall be measured unto you. O how I wish the compassion I have given to others be turned back to me because I feel abandoned.
• ·         Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
• ·         Lay your burden at the Savior’s feet and He guarantees that He will love me

Russell M Nelson Quorum of the 12 Apostles

• ·         Our degree of gratitude is the measure of our love for Him
• ·         Heavenly Father gave me His Son so I can live again, so I can love again, so I can be whole
• ·         The reproductive powers in our bodies is one of the most sacred gifts we have been given, yet sometimes we think we can use it anyway we see fit.
• ·         A welding of two souls creates no end and no beginning of when these two meet. When do you weld two souls together? In the temple. Otherwise it is just a temporary fitting of two bodies. It doesn’t matter how close two hearts come together if their souls are not spiritually welded as one.
• ·         Awaken in ourselves and others an awareness of God
• ·         Change and become more Christ like

Ronald A Rasband Presidency of the 70

• ·         Why the trial and why the heartache? It goes back to the purpose of this life. It is the final test and the orientation for Eternity.
• ·         Go to Christ and He will heal me. He said even the afflicted with any manner, is not a broken heart not an affliction?
• ·         We all face challenges and are irrevocably injured but it is not unhealable if we go to Him
• ·         We are carefully and lovingly watched over even when we hate God
• ·         He promised He would not leave us helpless nor comfortless, where is the comfort, where is the help? How am I to heal when every breath is beyond the pain I can bare?
• ·         Bare nobly our burdens until that day

Song: Rejoice the Lord is King

Julie B Beck

• ·         Relief Society is to give relief to whomever needs it in whatever way they need it.
• ·         Takes care of the temporal and spiritual needs of our sisters
• ·         We need to seek out the hearts of others so we may help them.
• ·         Don’t be afraid to say, “I need help” when your turn comes
• ·         Our future is full of promise, if we let the Lord work through us we will share in the triumph of the work

D Todd Christofferson Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

• ·         We do not heal our own hearts, nor do we let time heal our hearts. We give our hearts to the Lord and He will give us something new and whole. It will not be immediate, but if we try to do what He asks then He will somehow make it alright, somehow bearable.
• ·         This is not what he spoke on, but it is what I thought on

Song: We oft speak kind words

Thomas S Monson President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• ·         People are in a hurry everywhere
• ·         Do we pause for times of sorrow, or when crisis hits
• ·         What is really important, and what is really trivial?
• ·         Lay not up for yourself treasures on earth, lay up treasures for heaven
• ·         Do not waste your money always on things, things are good, but who is more important your expensive new computer or TV or your friends, siblings and family.
• ·         Prove yourself
• ·         We discover there are consequences to our choices and actions
• ·         Life moves relentlessly forward
• ·         The need to reach Heavenward for assistance as we move along the pathway
• ·         Follow Eternal Verities
• ·         Let us run with patience the race that is set before us
• ·         We do not enter mortality to follow the easiest path of life
• ·         We have the power to act and to think
• ·         Death is not the end, it does not give us an end.
• ·         Blessings such as Eternal Life and having our families with us forever must be earned.
• ·         You cannot receive a gift for nothing
• ·         To all He asks, come back, come up, come in. Come home. Heavenly Father loves all of us, and He still wishes for our good.

Song: Come Thou Fount

General Conference Sunday Afternoon

General Conference October 2011

Saturday Afternoon

Music: Primary Choir

Conducting: Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Song: ??

Song: Families are Forever

Releasing : 13

Sustain: 1

David A. Bednar

Godhead, Revelation, and Salvation for both living and dead.

The last prophet before Christ to have the Melkezedik sealing power.

The sealing powers had to be in place for the restoration of the church to come in its fullness. We could not have a fullness if we had no sealing power, to seal the living and the dead to bring all together as an Eternal Family.

The dead cannot do the work, and we cannot be perfect as our Father unless we do the work for those who cannot and those who need it.

Family History work is not limited or prescribed to those of the elderly. YM and YW should not wait until adulthood to start learning and loving the wok sparked by Elijah. 

The youth of the church have been blessed with the ability to tweet and to text quickly to help the work of the Lord along in the Family History centers around the world.

If you turn to this blessing you will turn towards the fathers of old and blessings will pour out and flow like a never ending waterfall and you will be beyond the power of the adversary.

Lds.org/familyhistoryyouth

We can all do Family History Work. These are more than just names, these are people.

Neil L. Andersen

We believe in families, and we believe in children.

Family is ordained of God.

It should not matter for us to wait in marriages to have children. Why not have children right away? Sure there are problems  but there will always be problems.

Decide by sincere prayer and faith. To be decided upon privately between husband, wife, and Heavenly Father.

You are not of the world when you remain true to what God has commanded. You  do not partake of the world.

Not having children and delaying children…

You do not collect children, or because you don’t want free time. Motherhood is a gift.

REMEMBER: Last year I felt that in 2 to 3 years I would be in the position of my sister and her husband, to have a child on the way and be married.  I don’t know but I feel a child is part of this even though the when I felt this I was just thinking about marriage, and child was a side thought of this also.  Today marks the 1^st year, next year I will be married, and will be the 2^nd year. If I become pregnant the following months it will be the 3^rd year in which I will be a mother. And that makes me terrified. –I think this is a topic to discuss with Steven when the time is right.

Do not be judgmental in this sacred and noble responsibility.

And this thought is scary. Because that means I will deliver my child in my last year of college. I will be pregnant while taking my PRAXIS. O bo.

Ian S. Ardern (New Zealand)

With the demands made of us, we must priorities our plans to achieve our eternal goals and our long term goals.

If we do not plan ahead we will be blown from one ime wasting activity to another without getting closer to any goal.

Love is spelt Time

Time is a close cousin to idleness

Do not be compulsive fingertip communicators. OOOO Steven. Do not need to always be busy and productive.

Do not let the technology today drown out talking to our Father in Heaven.

Real friends are more important than the ones you make on your RPGs.

Take those things which rob us of precious time, and remove them and let them not be the master’s of us. Okay, therefore I will no longer play any of my facebook games. They are not good for me, and there is a time to become an adult and to put childish things behind me. That does not mean that I cannot still play the random video game, because sometimes you need to stop thinking, but there are many other better things to do with your time and ideas.

Do not be a part of distracting and destructive pursuits.

Virtuous, Lovely, Good report, and Praiseworthy –seek these things. Ask yourself if a time consuming idea and adventure is one of these and if it is not then it is not needful.

Congregational Song: Praise to the Man

Carl G. Cook

Believe in God, believe that he is and has power in both heaven and earth.

LeGrand R. Curtis Jr.

There are many very important redemtions. Personal Redemption as well as the redemption of the saints and of the church. Redemption is the atonement of Jesus Christ. This redemption does not come through gold or silver or anything tangible, but through his blood of which he spilt for all mankind.  Whereby all power is given to the Son of God.

All of us will overcome death. This does not meant hat we will find an elixir of life to make one young forever. This does not mean we will use make up to keep ourselves looking young or have plastic surgery for all of our lives. We will through the grace of Heavenly Father and Christ we will have the power and knowledge to overcome the separation of spirit and body.

“Never can I repay thee Lord, but I can try”

“All my life, reflect thy will”

D. Todd Christofferson

Pretending there is no sin does not make suffering from it any easier, or mean that it does not exist.

The gift of repentance is a gift worthy of celebration

Mercy vs Justice that old rivalry is a continuous battle.

1. Invitation of Repentance is an expression of love

An act of genuine repairing

2. An act of change is the true face of repentance

Surely the father smiles on one who wants to come to the threshold pure and clean from stopping all unvirtuous actions.

3. Committing to Obedience

We must stop the action and stop all disobedience.

4. Sorrow for Disobedience, and acknowledgement of what you have done. See the reality of what you did and not just how you see what you did.

5. Ask forgiveness from the Father of Heaven.

L. Tom Perry

We as members of the church, should take any opportunity to set the public mind straight and right about the truths and misconceptions of the church.

We should also answer questions from those both friendly and hostile about our religion.

The important thing is to make sure that we share who we are as a people, and as individuals in our church and what we believe.

Be bold in our declaration of our belief in Jesus Christ, and let no one have a doubt about that we are Christians and worship only Christ and His Father because they are the instruments of our salvation and growth as our saviors.

Only through Jesus Christ is salvation possible, which is why the Christian world, including us , is the reason to our salvation in heaven.

Our lives should be examples of good works and virtue. We should engage in doing good. And as we do this in our daily lives we will be blessed and bless the lives of those around us, even if they are not of our faith.

Accept opportunities in which you can share your religious beliefs and then ask others about theirs and ask them respectfully about theirs. It is always better for you to ask than for you to tell about what you believe. Do not be fearful about this type of situation, simply remember that this is perfect love in God and love of our neighbors. Because if we love our neighbors we will want them to have the fullness of the gospel and to have the blessings of God with no bounds, and therefore you will share what you can with them with Christ-like love.

Avoid being defensive and argumentative.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Song: I Know My Father Lives

General Conference Sunday Morning

General Conference October 2011

Sunday Morning

Conducting: Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Music: Tabernacle Choir

Song: Lead me into Life Eternal

Song: Guide Us O, Thou Great Jehovah

Song: Consider the Living

President Henry B. Eyring

Charitable, Witnesses of God, Endure are the 3 Promises we make when becoming a saint.

Continual progress, and as you serve others for Him and as you progress in your striving to be like Him, He will bless you.

The Book of Mormon will improve our character as we read about the valiant testimonies of the prophets and members from the ancient times. As I try to be like them I will become a better version of myself.

Follow the strength and courage of others that have passed on before us. Follow the example of the believers.

The Book of Mormon is able to change men: Full Conversion, Build Faith, Draw Closer to God, Change a life for better

Drink deeply and often from the BOM’s pages.

Robert D. Hales

The Purpose of our life is to grow and to progress.

Tests and Trials are given to all of us. The rain falls on the just and  unjust.

All of us at some point will have cause to call and ask O God wehre art thou?

Blessings can be saved until the spirit World, in fact some of our blessings may be for that time. We do not know when these things will come, all we know is that they will come because God has said it.

He that watches over us is neither blind or asleep.

Press Forward with Faith

Tad R Callister

There is no middle ground with the Book of Mormon. It is of God or it is of the Devil. It is either full of truth as it says or it is all a big fraud.

Come unto Christ and be like Him.

“the Devil must not have written, it is of God”

If every church interpreted the scriptures in the Bible the same, they would all be of the same church.

The Book of Mormon is a second witness, it is an additional witness and not the only one, we believe in the bible as well.

There is only one line that you can draw between the Book of Mormon and the Holy Bible. But if you take just the Bible or the book of Mormon by themselves there would be many interpretations of them but only together can one receive the correct interpretation.

Many people believe that revelation ended with the Holy Bible when the Bible is a testimony of continual revelation from God over 4000 years.

Together with the Bible the Book of Mormon will bring us to one faith, one God and one baptism.

Congregational Song: We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet

Elaine S. Dalton

The most important way to raise your daughter in this world is to love her mother and respect her and show your wife she is special in all your actions.

Do not let the role fo fatherhood and patriarch be diminished or feel as if it is not as wonderful or glorious as motherhood.

Fathers, help the Daughters of God to bring the world back to virtue.

Your personal virtue will model for your children what true love is.

Your testimony has a powerful influence on your children and the base for their own thoughts and beliefs in this church until they have the strength to make their own.

Become a man of perfect faith in Christ.; be loyal to the royal within you.

M. Russell Ballard

The importance of a name.

A name distinguishes the one from the others.

We renew taking upon the name of Christ each Sunday as we take the sacrament. We should not take this for granted or think it insignificant. His name is the only name under heaven that man may be saved.

Taking on us the name of Christ also lets others know whom we follow.

We follow him by being saints and disciples. Nicknames are a distinction for our religion.

Continue to give use of our full name and not refer to ourselves as the Mormon church. We are the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Use the full name of our church whenever possible. It is the name that the Lord himself has given us and our religion that He wishes for us to be called.

Proclaim the name of the Savior throughout the world, and use our name whenever possible.

Song: I’ll Go Where You Want Me To Go

President Thomas S. Monson

“We Love Ya, Bob!”

The 10 Commandments became the 10 Creative Suggestions

Morality is not passé, and Conscience is not for just wimps, and we are responsible for our actions.

Our beliefs are definitive and non-negotiable.

Christ is an anchor that we can hold fast to and be safe least we be swept away into uncharted waters.

There is nothing that can bring to our lives such joy and love than the Spirit.

Watch and pray always least you are led away into temptation.

Ask that which is right, believing you shall receive and you ask for it will be given to you.

We need to have guidance from our father, because there is no way we will know which way to go unless He shows us the right way.

Trust your Father and follow what he says.

The importance to be able to receive inspiration and be able to follow it.

Communication to our Father in Heaven is through prayers, and is needful for us to make it through the storms of life.

Draw near unto Him and He will draw near unto you. As you do so you will feel His spirit in your lives.

Stand in Holy places and be not moved.

To those who trust in Him, fear not for He is with us. Be not dismayed for He is our God, and will uphold us.

Song: I Believe in Christ