Stake Conference Adult Session
•Our Individual Responsibility to Learn•
What holds the most meaning in your life?
What demarcates value to things in our life?
⁃ Inquiry based learning
⁃ Each prophet has had a thirst to learn more
⁃ Each glorious vision has been sparked by requests to learn more -- questions that burned unanswered.
⁃ The First Vision, Nephi's Vision(s), Enos' experience, D&C, Alma's knowledge of the spirit world, it's littered all over the scriptures. God answers questions (power of everyday missionaries; heavenly library analogy).
⁃ The answers drove the recipients to act, to change, to set in motion processes that would grow.
⁃ God involves us in as much of His work as possible so that we can better understand His character. Hence, we are often the answers to other people's prayers, rather than a heavenly messenger or some other miraculous.
⁃ Nothing matters to the Spirit... Except who you are. It will speak in a way completely and individually suited to you, which means that it may draw upon those things that make up your identity, in order to make an impression. The beauty of this process is that by reaching parts of our identity and connecting them to gospel truths, the Holy Ghost aides us in changing, in rediscovering our eternal identity.
⁃ His confidence peaked when he bore his testimony. It was clear and concise, strong and strident.
•Ever Learning and Never Coming to a Knowledge of the Truth•
• One of the biggest reasons there has been an outpouring of knowledge since the First Vision is because there is a greater number of people seeking revelation from God, than ever before in the history of the world. Yes indeed, the First Vision opened the floodgates, because it showed humanity that there was a Higher Source we could entreat for knowledge, a Being who would never upbraid or judge or withhold what we need for our eternal progression.
• People continually put more and more emphasis on digital opinions, gauged in value by other people's opinions. In essence, we tend to value things by trusting people we know nothing about!
• We wanted to be like God even more than we wanted to be right next to Him. We chose to come here, risking that bliss and peace and security, so that we could have a shot at becoming more like the Father of Lights.
• "Wilt thou also leave?" "To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life."
• "He has declared, He is Messiah! And he has bid them come and seek, but they won't follow!"
• Spiritual conversion is the same as physical (chemical) conversion.
• We know so many things. I know so many things about the gospel and how it works, but that only means that I have all the more to strive to understand and apply to my circumstances.
• Why should we judge each other for being immature and amateur? We are. The difference between adults and children here on earth must be like the difference between 4 year olds and 5 year olds to God!
•Recent Convert Testimony•
• Our passions in life don't take away from our devotion to God; if we balance our life, they will enrich our discipleship and magnify our commitment. Prime example: marriage.
•Lights on a Hill•
• Respect for the efforts of others does not preclude us acting to lift and inspire them on their journey. If anything, it should motivate us to do so.
• You are a light on a hill; a child of the Father of Lights.
•Oh That I Were an Angel•
• Expressing love for others can hint at our love for Heavenly Father.
• We cry repentance to reduce the amount of sorrow in the world, in the lives of individuals.
• 뭘 사모하는가? 사모한다는 아주 중요한것이다.
• 복음이 몰랐다면 지금은 내가 어디 있을까?
• 적용하지 않은 지식은 값 없는 지식이지
•Thy Face I Will Seek•
• Where we place ourselves speaks volumes about our goals and priorities.
• Even as we declare our devotion to following the path set by our Lord, we plead for Him to reveal that path to us. A blend of commitment and humility.
• "To love another person is to see the face of God."
• Extraordinary Miracles in Ordinary Lives -- the privilege of seeing the face of the Savior.
• I make broad observations that demonstrate understanding, but how often do I make plans to apply? How often do I discern a change I can make in my life?
• Ask, seek, and knock is not a repetitious pattern, but an ordered, numerated system. We ask a question, seek for the answer, then request a confirmation (or alternative answer) from the Lord.
• The Lord deals in covenants partially to make it easier for us to rely on Him. This is clearly explained in holy writ. From the Epistle to the Hebrews chapter 6: 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil
• From a young age, children seek promises and find security in them. Certainly our habit of tying covenants is rooted in our eternal nature.
• Seek, ask, knock is a temple teaching.
•Go Me•
• We see too much of something and we become desensitized. Hence, even noble causes can become grating to us because of overzealous advocates.
• It's never too early, and it's never too late.
• The natural man is only natural when we separate our physical side from our spiritual side. There's nothing natural about it, save that it's a natural consequence. This life is a proving ground to see if we can balance, or bring into harmony our spiritual and physical halves. We are a living soul; a spirit and a body.
• "We're no better, but we are different."
• Within the temple, we may find ourselves learning things we never thought we would need to know.
Sunday Session
•Love Those We Teach•
• The most important thing we do is love our fellow students in the gospel.
• We don't need to feel sorry for, or pity, or anything people -- we need only to love them.
• We may not be able to reach out to all of them at once, but we can reach out to our students one at a time, with individual acts of service, attention, and love.
•Teaching By the Spirit•
• How agonized would we feel to know we caused somebody else pain, when we could've avoided it!
• We must always show that we will do and are doing what we invite our students to do.
• It's never too early and it's never too late to formally teach our children the gospel.
• The Spirit is as needed to recognize opportunities to teach as it is needed to teach.
•Finding Solace•
• Weight doesn't matter so much as time does.
• Time exponentially increases the weight of burdens.
•The Transformative Power of the Temple•
• He will visit us in our afflictions. It is through them that we grow closer to the Lord. We need not hide or ignore them to draw near unto Him.
• Life is not about discovering who we are, but choosing who we want to be.
• If we don't aim to shape ourselves, then we will be shaped by circumstance and more dynamic individuals.
•The Doctrine of the Temple•
• We are learners and teachers.
• Prophetic priorities include hastening the work on both sides of the veil.
• We can find, take, and teach any doctrine. We learn it, apply it, then testify of it.
• "Whatever else constitutes [your] life." Put the gospel in its place, and fill in the rest.
• "Font to font."
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