My favorite weekends are General Conference weekends.
This weekend it has been General Conference.
It is a very important time for all the world. The Prophet Thomas S. Monson, and other church leaders for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give talks at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This meeting happens twice a year. Every six months. It is a much anticipated and favorite time of year.
Here are some of my favorite quotes for Conference:
“Defend your beliefs with courtesy and kindness, but defend them.” -Jeffery R. Holland
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“I must testify of the blessings of daily scripture study and prayer and weekly Family Home Evening. These are the very practices that take away stress, give balance to our lives, and protection to our homes. Then if pornography or other challenges strike our families we can petition the Lord for help and expect great guidance from the Spirit knowing that we have done what our Father in Heaven expects us to do.”-Linda S. Reeves
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“Each of us carries a load. Our individual load is comprised of individual demands and opportunities, obligations and privileges, afflictions and blessings, and options and constraints. Two guiding questions can be helpful as we periodically, and prayerfully access our load. #1-Is the load I am carrying producing the spiritual traction that will enable me to press forward with faith in Christ on the strait and narrow path, and avoid getting stuck. #2-Is the load I am carrying creating sufficient spiritual traction so I ultimately can return home to Heavenly Father. Sometimes we mistakenly believe that happiness is the abscess of a load, but baring a load is a necessary and essential part of the plan of happiness. Because our individual load needs to generate spiritual traction we should be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.”-David A. Bednar
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“Love is the very essence of the gospel, and Jesus Christ is our exemplar. His life was a legacy of love. The sick He healed. The down trodden He lifted. The sinner He saved. At the end the angry mob took His life. And yet there rings from Galgotha’s Hill the words, ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they do.’ The crowning expression in mortality of compassion and love. There are many manifestations of love such as kindness, patience, selflessness, understanding and forgiveness.With all of our associations these and other such attributes will help make evident the love in our hearts. Usually our love will be shown in our day to day interactions one with another. All important be our ability to recognize someones need and then to respond.”-Thomas S. Monson
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I love the gospel of Jesus Christ!
You can watch General Conference HERE!
Hope your Sunday is the Best! Love, Joy