Morning LDS Conference Talks

I love conference and it fits into my addiction of being a couch potato. And no one can get after me because I am sitting on the couch and watching TV.

Keeping the sabbath day holy. by L Tom Perry

1. Be unspotted from the world

• Dress appropriate to Church
• Have Sunday appropriate activities that do not distract from the sacrament. Before and After Church.
• Conduct ourselves on the sabbath that allows us to receive the blessing that are waiting for us as we keep this commandment.

2. Go to the house of the lord and offer up our sacrifice

• Come to the sacrament repentant.
• Our sacrifice is our broken heart and contrite spirit.

3. Rest from our labors.

• Avoid business activities on Sunday
• Avoid athletic activites
• Parents teach your children to be believers. Prepare them for the sacrament.
• Celebrate the sabbath all day long.

Children are the key to becoming like Heaven Father by Jean A Stevens

Except you become converted and be like a little child can you inherit the kingdom of Heaven. We need to humble ourselves to forgive quickly and and an optimistic hope.

Great story about a primary challenged to pay tithing in a very poor ward. The primary paid their tithing and then the parents followed their example.

Qualitities of Children we need to mimic to obtain the kingdom of heaven

• Teachable
• Full of faith
• Untarnished by the world
• Trust in the Lord
• Submissive
• Humble
• Meek
• Patient
• Full of Love

Behold your children. This is differnt than look or glance. Home is a place were we can all learn and grow together. God gave us families so he can show us how he wants us to be.

Follow Christ's example and become as a little child.

Following Christ by our Examples by Walter F Gonzalez

In our converstaions, our homes, walls, billboards need to invite people to come unto Christ. Righteousness has been sent down from Heaven and it will be spread throughout the wor

People that Follow Christ are:

1. Loving People

• Christ has shown true love through the Atonement
• We should follow the Son in all parts of our life.
• We will become mighty as follow Christ and sacrifice our worldly ways.

Examples are Ruth and Joseph show sacrifice of both temporal and resisting temptation. Both of these are ways to follow Christ.

Following Christ should be based on Love of Christ. The way we treat others shows how we love Christ.

2. Make and Keep Covenants

• The Atonement of Christ is a covenant between Christ and Heavenly Father.
• Christ was baptized as a covenant as well.
• We need to renew our covenant at the sacrament table
• We can also remember our temple covenants by attending the temple.
• Pay attention to the words of the covenants and apply them in your life.

Great story about a couple that attended the temple and saved their marriage.

Enduring Emotional and Physical Pain by Kent F Richards

Pain can drive people from God or bring them closer. It is through pain and sorrow that we can learn from to become who we are and who Heavenly Father wants us to become. Many times we suffer pain not because of ourselves but because of situations around us. The Savior knows the pains that we face, we should come unto the savior and his grace to find peace and tranquility. The Atonement covers this pain. We need to apply the atonement in our lives.

We also suffer pain because of our own sins. The pain we feel here is spiritual death and we have separated ourselves from God. The Atonement works in our lives with this as well. Heavenly Father knows our situations and has a plan for each of us individually. He understand how we can best grow and the situations the will help us grow the most as long as we are willing to step up and grow.

Maybe we need to wait in distress while we learn the real meaning of the Atonement in our lives. Christ will not turn you away. He will heal all that come unto him. Sometimes we are heal in our afflictions by given the ability to hold up to the hardships of our lives. The hardships might not be taken away, but we will be given the strength to endure. We need to become like children that endure with patience and faith in the Lord.

In order to understand the Atonement of Christ we need to understand how it can be utilized in our lives. Pain and tribulations are given to us to teach us and to help us to grow.

Latter Day Saint Women Heros by Quentin L Cook

Characteristics of Women

• Strength
• Love
• Faith
• Willingness to Sacrifice

Pioneer Women are an incredible example of strong women in the church that left their homes to trek to the unknown.

Great story about a purse found at a church dance and the characteristics of a young lady living the gospel. We need to foster good examples to young women in the church.

The most important organization in the world is the family where a mother and father are both working together to raise a family.

Everyone in the Church should participate to the three fold mission of the church. Men and Women work together in the church. Great story about how a relief society rescued 63 men by focusing on them and how they can be brought back to the Lord as families.

No Woman should feel to apologize for taking care of children. We should not judge women that work outside of the home.

Honor and Celebrating The Charity of the Lord by Henry B Eyring

The Lord has established means to help the poor and needed through covenants, programs etc... In the past it has been called the united order, law of consecration, and now the church welfare program. We have covenanted with the Lord to help others in need at baptism and renew that in the sacrament every Sunday.

"Have I done any good in the world today." Primary Song.

Feelings of sympathy drive us to help other people in need. The Church has many mechanisms to help those in need.

The Bishop and Priesthood quorums are the place that needs are identified and help given. They are close to the people and their needs.

1. Everyone is happier when they can provide for their own family. Helping people to become self reliant is key to the welfare program. Spend less than you earn. Give your surplus to others to help them become self reliant. It builds everyone up together.
2. The power and blessing of unity when serving others helps increase brotherhood for the receiver and giver.
3. Draw your family into the work with you. Teach them to help other so they can learn to help each other when they are in need.
4. Seek out the poor and needed. Find those that need and can grow into helping themselves.

There will be a church wide service day. We need to pray-fully choose something that needed and can help the most people and bring people together.