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Notes on President Monson’s Teachings, April 2014 General Conference
My notes on president Monson’s addresses at the April General Conference, 2014. Obviously subjective, and subject to ongoing revision and improvement, but this helps me to pragmatically know how to...
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Oct. 2015 General Conference, Sunday AM Notes
President Monson: I like how his talk was based on combining two different works of scripture. That’s a skill that we all need to develop better, and it only comes from a quantity of repeated study....
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Oct. 2015 General Conference PM Sunday Notes
Elder Christofferson: This talk advocates an idea unpopular in the world today: organized religion isn’t bad; in fact, it’s necessary. A similar talk by Eugene England called “Why the Church Is As True...
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Mormon Upanishads: General Conference
A few years ago I read a collection of great Hindu scripture called upanishads, a word which means “an instruction, the sitting at the feet of a master.” I love the idea of canonizing and revering such...
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Annotations to Saturday AM session, April 2016 General Conference
These aren’t just traditional notes, in the sense of summaries and highlights. Rather, these are mostly connections, commentary, footnotes, and such. #LDSConf President Henry B. Eyring Elder Oaks...
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Annotations to Saturday PM session, April 2016 General Conference
#LDSConf Ronald A. Rasband (12) Is this going to be an indirect address to the “opposed” crowd? Interesting. Good job pre-empting the seduction of young people into trendy doubt and denial. Yeah, this...
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What President Monson Is Reading
In President Monson’s brief remarks at this month’s General Conference, perhaps the thing that struck me most was in the priesthood session when he said, “Recently I read the true account of a dramatic...
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April 2017 General Conference–Annotated
This post will be updated frequently throughout the weekend with my notes on General Conference. SATURDAY MORNING President Eyring–The Gathering of God’s Family “~The love that comes closest to the...
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October 2017 General Conference Notes
This post will be updated throughout the weekend. SATURDAY MORNING President Uchtdorf: The Light is Calling to You We have an innate feeling pulling us towards God, like animals’ instincts to get...
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General Conference and Choosing the Bigger Life
Late last year, I was preparing for 2017’s New Year’s resolutions. As I surveyed where I was and where I wanted to be, I knew that I wanted to simply get more out of life. I was already happy and …...
View ArticleOn Combining Priesthood Quorums
Maybe the most important thing said about the big reorganization change at today’s General Conference wasn’t in President Nelson’s ultimate priesthood session talk, but in the brief introduction he...
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Saturday Morning Elder Ballard: Record in journal what you feel about today’s solemn assembly. Testimony of President Nelson’s calling. Urges us to sustain and follow. Faith is how we move forward....
View ArticlePresident Nelson’s 8-Step Guide to Revelation
This quote was, for me, the most important part of the most important talk in the most important General Conference in decades. It seemed to me that the prophet’s words naturally broke down into an...
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SATURDAY MORNING President Nelson Church supports the family, not the other way around–we need a home-centered church. “We are each responsible for our individual spiritual growth.” Elder Cook–2 hour...
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SATURDAY MORNING Elder Soares–Teach and Learn the Gospel at Home We hear the voice of Jesus Christ through those who speak at this conference. We have a divine mandate to seek to learn and teach...
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