General Conference is always such an uplifting weekend! There is so much for us to learn. Every conference no matter what questions I need answered I always receive the answers that I need! These are just a few highlights that meant a lot to me.
Keith B. McMullin
"Duty does not require perfection but it does diligence"
Wilford W. Anderson
"...hope and happiness and joy are not products of circumstance but of faith in the Lord."
M. Russell Ballard
YW: "Do not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord’s standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother. Learn from her strengths, her courage, and her faithfulness. Listen to her. No other person on earth loves you in the same way or is willing to sacrifice as much to encourage you and help you find happiness—in this life and forever."
I put this quote here not because I want to remind myself of who I need to be! And all I want is to help my children find everlasting happiness!
David A. Bednar
Spiritual warning system that can help parents to be watchful and discerning concerning their children:
(1) reading and talking about the Book of Mormon with your children,
(2) bearing testimony of gospel truths spontaneously with your children, and
(3) inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon.
Parents who do these things faithfully will be blessed to recognize early signals of spiritual growth in or challenges with their children and be better prepared to receive inspiration to strengthen and help those children.
Jeffrey R. Holland
Lust is the most deadly sin. It is always hiding. It is the opposite of love.
The journey of 1000 miles begins with 1 step.
Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Do not judge! Love everyone! Love requires action!
On this Easter Sunday, and every day, as we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands, that others through us may feel His loving embrace.
Robert D. Hales
Do our children know what we know?
It is our imperative duty to help youth understand and believe the gospel in a deeply personal way. We can teach them to walk in the light, but that light cannot be borrowed. They must earn it for themselves.
In these perilous times it is not enough for our youth to merely know. They must do. To truly choose the Lord’s way, they must know His way. And to truly know His way, we must teach and lead them to act, to participate, to do.
The greatest missionary work we will ever do will be in our homes. Our children and grandchildren are our most important investigators.
The greatest family history work that we will do will be within our own homes. It is the spiritual preparation of our children in the rising generation that will, through their obedience, ensure the eternal preservation and perpetuation of our families for the coming generations.
The greatest rescue, the greatest activation will be in our homes. There is no failure except in giving up.
The greatest faith we have will be within our homes as we remain strong in the trials and tribulations of parenthood.
Pres. Thomas S. Monson (final words)
"Trust in the Lord and lean not upon thine own understanding and He shall direct thy path" Proverbs 3:5–6.
"My counsel for all of us is to look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing."
“The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; . . . I will call upon the Lord . . . so [I shall] be saved from mine enemies.” Psalm 18:2–3.
The Lord hears our prayers!!
"May the message of this conference find their place into our daily lives!"
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