It's hard to believe that this is my second conference here in Leeds. It's also amazing to me that we can watch live streaming video online, anywhere in the world. I watched the Saturday afternoon session this morning which was really great because I was taking notes with my laptop and if I liked something I could pause and back up and hear it again. This added at least a half an hour to my listening. I tried to gather up some of my favorite thoughts from each talk. I don't know if they're word perfect but I tried my best.
SATURDAY MORNING
Sister Beck:
"When we have done our very best we may still experience disappointment but we will not be disappointed in ourselves. We can feel certain that the Lord is pleased when we feel the Spirit working through us. Peace, joy and hope are available to those who measure success properly."
Elder Wilford Anderson:
"Hope, happiness and joy are not products of circumstance but of faith in the Lord."
Elder Ballard:
"There is nothing in this world as personal as nurturing or as life changing as the influence of a righteous woman."
Pres. Eyring
[The Lord] "placed directions and rescuers along the way, Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and lead to safety....They can only arrive back to Heavenly Father as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise we will encourage, praise and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost. When they share with us what they are doing and feeling we must ourselves have qualified for the Spirit then they will feel in our praise and our smiles the approval of God and should we feel the need to give corrective counsel they will feel our love and the love of God in it."
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Pres. Eyring
[The Lord] "placed directions and rescuers along the way, Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and lead to safety....They can only arrive back to Heavenly Father as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise we will encourage, praise and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost. When they share with us what they are doing and feeling we must ourselves have qualified for the Spirit then they will feel in our praise and our smiles the approval of God and should we feel the need to give corrective counsel they will feel our love and the love of God in it."
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Elder Perry
"You can never over-prepare for teaching the gospel."
Elder Christofferson
"....growing scriptural illiteracy because people will not open the books
"The scriptures are the touchstone for measuring correctness and truth and they are clear that real happiness...lies in repentance and forgiveness through the atoning grace of the Son of God.
"Never in history has a people been blessed with such a quantity of holy writ. Surely with this blessing the Lord is telling us that our need for constant recourse to the scriptures is greater than at any previous time."
"The scriptures are the touchstone for measuring correctness and truth and they are clear that real happiness...lies in repentance and forgiveness through the atoning grace of the Son of God.
"Never in history has a people been blessed with such a quantity of holy writ. Surely with this blessing the Lord is telling us that our need for constant recourse to the scriptures is greater than at any previous time."
Pres. Monson via Elder Aoyagi
“'My Brothers and Sisters, we are surrounded by those who need our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness. Be they family members, friends, acquaintances or strangers. We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth with the mandate to serve and to lift his children. He is dependent upon each of us.” May we follow the counsel and example of the Prophet and each day seek out those in need that we might be the hand of the Lord in helping and saving His children."
Elder Carlson
"At times we may rationalize that the Lord will understand our disobedience because our special circumstances make adherence to his laws difficult, embarrassing or even painful. However, faithful obedience regardless of the apparent size of the task will bring the Lord’s guidance, assistance and peace."
Elder Bednar
"The spiritual understanding you and I have been blessed to receive and has been confirmed as true in our hearts simply cannot be given to our children. The tuition of diligence and of learning by study and also by faith must be paid to obtain and personally own such knowledge. Only in this way can what is known in the mind be also be felt in the heart, only in this way can a child move beyond relying up on the the spiritual knowledge and experiences of parents and adults and claim those blessings for himself or herself. Only in this way can our children be prepared spiritually for the challenges of mortality."
Elder Holland
"If you’re endowed go to the temple as often as your circumstance will allow. Remember that the temple arms you with God’s power puts his glory round about you and gives his angels charge over you. And when you leave the temple remember the symbols you take with you never to be set aside or forgotten. "
“'My Brothers and Sisters, we are surrounded by those who need our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness. Be they family members, friends, acquaintances or strangers. We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth with the mandate to serve and to lift his children. He is dependent upon each of us.” May we follow the counsel and example of the Prophet and each day seek out those in need that we might be the hand of the Lord in helping and saving His children."
Elder Carlson
"At times we may rationalize that the Lord will understand our disobedience because our special circumstances make adherence to his laws difficult, embarrassing or even painful. However, faithful obedience regardless of the apparent size of the task will bring the Lord’s guidance, assistance and peace."
Elder Bednar
"The spiritual understanding you and I have been blessed to receive and has been confirmed as true in our hearts simply cannot be given to our children. The tuition of diligence and of learning by study and also by faith must be paid to obtain and personally own such knowledge. Only in this way can what is known in the mind be also be felt in the heart, only in this way can a child move beyond relying up on the the spiritual knowledge and experiences of parents and adults and claim those blessings for himself or herself. Only in this way can our children be prepared spiritually for the challenges of mortality."
Elder Holland
"If you’re endowed go to the temple as often as your circumstance will allow. Remember that the temple arms you with God’s power puts his glory round about you and gives his angels charge over you. And when you leave the temple remember the symbols you take with you never to be set aside or forgotten. "
Bring on the Sunday sessions!
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