Greetings everyone! We just had a wonderful conference weekend full of love, inspiration, revelation, and the Spirit of the Lord. If you were not able to participate in every session I strongly encourage you to read or listen to sessions or talks missed. The whole General Conference is now ready to listen to and will soon become available to read or watch. Here is the link for the audio http://lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,23-1-1117,00.html
We had a great lesson at Friday Forum, September 25th by a member of our Stake Presidency here in Tyler, TX. President Anderson spoke to us about living prophets. He urged us to accept and follow the living prophet even if we don't like what he is saying.
I believe we can pray to the Lord in faith and ask for a greater desire to accept and follow the counsel we recieve from our living prophet, even Tomas S. Monson, because we know it its truly from the Lord and for the benefit and welfare of our eternal souls.
In the back of the Doctrine and Covenants there is an official declaration by President Wilford Woodruff. It is a testimony to how protective our Heavenly Father is of us and how aware He is of us, even at this present time.
We had a great lesson at Friday Forum, September 25th by a member of our Stake Presidency here in Tyler, TX. President Anderson spoke to us about living prophets. He urged us to accept and follow the living prophet even if we don't like what he is saying.
I believe we can pray to the Lord in faith and ask for a greater desire to accept and follow the counsel we recieve from our living prophet, even Tomas S. Monson, because we know it its truly from the Lord and for the benefit and welfare of our eternal souls.
In the back of the Doctrine and Covenants there is an official declaration by President Wilford Woodruff. It is a testimony to how protective our Heavenly Father is of us and how aware He is of us, even at this present time.
The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty. (Sixty-first Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reported in Deseret Evening News, October 11, 1890, p. 2.)
The Institute class Brother Sullivan gave before the weekend of General Conference he had something written on the board for our benefit. It said pertaining to our own personal lives and struggles: Do I have questions? He knows the answers! We believe in modern day revelation, even personal revelation. What a wonderful blessing the connection of prayer. Brother Sullivan was letting us kow that if as we prayed to the Lord for answers to questions we had in our lives, for the direction we sorely needed now, that Heavenly Father would inspire those writing Conference talks by the spirit to give us the answers we needed.
I wanted to invite you to reply to my blog post and share your experiences from this last weekend pertaining to this topic.
I know some of what might have been an answer to fervent prayer may be deeply personal for you, if there is anything you wish to share please do so.
I received an answer to my prayers through a priesthood session talk given by Robert F. Gonzales of the Seventy. He counseled that we can learn a great deal from the children of Lehi. To me it was a reminder that through reading the Book of Mormon we can find answers on how we should live and conduct our lives through the examples given in this divinely inspired book.
To be able to gain instruction on how to live our modern lives by those who lived anciently is a testimony of the Book of Mormon and why it was meant and saved for our day.
Once again Heavenly Father has our best interests at heart. I have a testimony of this Gospel. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the only true and living church on the face of this earth at which Jesus Christ is the head and President Thomas S. Monson is His mouthpiece on the earth today. If we apply the atonement of Jesus Christ to our lives daily with broken hearts and contrite spirits we will more and more like our Savior, until He will make us just like Him.
Matt. 5: 48I know some of what might have been an answer to fervent prayer may be deeply personal for you, if there is anything you wish to share please do so.
I received an answer to my prayers through a priesthood session talk given by Robert F. Gonzales of the Seventy. He counseled that we can learn a great deal from the children of Lehi. To me it was a reminder that through reading the Book of Mormon we can find answers on how we should live and conduct our lives through the examples given in this divinely inspired book.
1 Ne. 19: 23 And I did read many things unto them which were written in the books of Moses; but that I might more fully persuade them to believe in the Lord their Redeemer I did read unto them that which was written by the prophet Isaiah; for I did liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and learning.
To be able to gain instruction on how to live our modern lives by those who lived anciently is a testimony of the Book of Mormon and why it was meant and saved for our day.
Once again Heavenly Father has our best interests at heart. I have a testimony of this Gospel. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the only true and living church on the face of this earth at which Jesus Christ is the head and President Thomas S. Monson is His mouthpiece on the earth today. If we apply the atonement of Jesus Christ to our lives daily with broken hearts and contrite spirits we will more and more like our Savior, until He will make us just like Him.
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
3 Ne. 12: 48
"Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
I know the only way to obtain that perfection is in and through the merits of Jesus Christ, who is mighty to save.
I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
1 noted ponderings:
I didn't really go in with a question for this last GC but I think it really hit me when Elder Ballard spoke about communication between fathers and sons and respect for fathers. That was the one that really sticks out in my mind anyway, there will probably be a few more after I get to read the talks.
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