Adult session of stake conference.
Bulletin
Joseph Smith History 1:17
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
Session
Two missionaries new to the stake spoke to us.
One missionary from Utah County and was called to Virginia. He got brain cancer and had to have surgery and treatment. He then was called to the Layton mission.
These missionaries are now dedicated to only our stake, instead of shared with multiple stakes.
2 Nephi 12:2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
They said that Utah means top of the mountain in the ute language. I couldn’’t find that, but I saw references to it meaning people of the mountain.
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“My dear young brothers and sisters, these surely are the latter days, and the Lord is hastening His work to gather Israel. That gathering is the most important thing taking place on earth today. Nothing else compares in magnitude, nothing else compares in importance, nothing else compares in majesty. And if you choose to, if you want to, you can be a big part of it. You can be a big part of something big, something grand, something majestic!” (President Russell M Nelson and Sister Wendy W Nelson, Hope of Israel, New Era August 2018)
Our level of conversion is reflected is how much desire we have to share the gospel with our friends.
Doctrine and Covenants 11:8
8 Verily, verily, I say unto you, even as you desire of me so it shall be done unto you; and, if you desire, you shall be the means of doing much good in this generation.
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A sister that moved here from Kazakhstan spoke to us with her bishop in our stake. She was baptized in April.
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“When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the house of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. These answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways.” (President Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, August 1985, page 8.)
The Law of Consecration - “To dedicate, to make holy, or to become righteous. The law of consecration is a divine principle whereby men and women voluntarily dedicate their time, talents, and material wealth to the establishment and building up of God’s kingdom.” (Guide to the Scriptures)
A lot of the talk was about living the law of consecration. Interesting since often people comment that the law of consecration was something in the past.
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The speaker talked of not forgetting the good things we learned in scouting.
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If you slow down and look you will see God's hand in your life, but you have to pay attention.
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Doing indexing is a way to say thank you for all the records that are available to us to help us find our ancestors.
Matthew 7:7
7 ¶ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Malachi 4:5-6
5 ¶ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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There have been miracles in this stake.
Reach out to someone and at the end of the evening report back to heavenly father about that. Through this you will see miracles happen.
Moses 1:39
39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Abraham 3:25
25 And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;
Prove - to learn or find out by experience.
Dnc 84:38
38 And he that receiveth my Father receiveth my Father’s kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath shall be given unto him.
Self-motivated change is repentance.
You are never alone.
Take things in small steps.
Society lies about what is beautiful.
“The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even the most significant acts of goodness he cited is that charity, ‘the pure love of Christ’ (Moro. 7:47), is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes. Thus, as Moroni declared, ‘except men shall have charity they cannot inherit’ the place prepared for them in the mansions of the Father (Ether 12:34; emphasis added).”
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