Conducting: Henry B. Eyring
Conductor Music: Ronald Stasly
Music By: BYU Choir
Song: “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee”
Prayer: Russell. T. Oslethorpe
Have a desire to serve
Join the missionaries
Song: “Did You Think to Pray”
1st Speaker: Deiter F Uchtdorf - Sustaining
2nd Speaker: Robert W. Cantwell – Annual Report
D&C 120 – church funds
3rd Speaker: Brook P. Hales – secretary to 1st
presidency – stastics report
Stakes: 3,003
347 Missions
14million 182 thousand
4 Temples dedicated
Kansas
Brazil
Brigahm
Calgery
2 Redicated Temples
140 Operational Temples
As of 12-31-12
4th speaker: Richard G. Scott
We each need a place of refuge to reenergize for furture
pressures
Ideal place is
within our homes
Make Jesus Christ
the center piece
Center your home and life on the Lord Jesus Christ
Make certain every decision you make is conditioned on what
the Savior would have you do
Parents should teach children how their actions effect each
member of the home
Grow to become trustworthy citizens in the Kingdom of God
Daily personal and Family Prayer
Daily personal and Family Scriptures
Weekly Family Home Evening
Don’t rationalize future happiness by taking shortcuts
Small things lead to big things
Simple, consistant good habits lead to bountiful blessings
Satan is no match for the Savior
he has already
lost
Don’t let him exploit your weaknesses
Stay on the Lord’s side and you will win every time
Technology
Can be used as a
blessing
Can also be a
deterrent
Use it with
discipline
Don’t let it become
a habit to continually use
Be wise in how you
use technology
Study as often as
you text
Do all you can to invite the Holy Ghost into our homes
Act obediently on those promptings
Couple your efforts to be obedient to those serving around
you
Use your talents to bless the lives of those around you
Selfishnesses is the root of evil
Focus your life outward in service to others
Service brings power of God – Unselfishness service brings
this
Be an example to your friends
We can provide a Christ centered home as an example to those
in our community
Do all you can to have a Christ-centered Home
Be that kind of a friend
Home should not be used as something to gain a personal
advantage
Welcome others who need to be strengthened by this
experience
Trust in the Lord and in His timing
Remember that some things must be left to the Lord
He wants us to lay our burdans at his feet
We are in the watch care of the Savior
Recognize the good things in others NOT the stains
Build on his/her virtues
That thin thread of home is a massive link that can lift
you, comfort you when you fear
Place your [comfort] in the Lord
A time and season in all things
We can learn and grow and become like him
Live an obedient life, firmly rooted in the gospel of Christ
In the midst of turmoil we can enjoy eternal peace
5th Speaker: Quentin L. Cook
Events often occur that rob of us peace
The Stakes of Zion are a place of refuge of wrath
World Peace and Inner Peace
“Glory to God in the Highest, and on Earth Peace, Good Will
towards Man”
Matthew 10 – The Lord’s mission would not attain world peace
in his time
V. 34
He who Endures to the end shall be saved
D&C Preface
“There never came to the world . . . that peace . . . ”
President Wilford Smith (?)
D&C “But learn that he . . . shall receive . . . . peace in this world . . .”
“His peace will ease our suffering . . . a love of fellow
men . . .” (?)
“The Savoir’s peace can block out our hate” (?)
Peace comes from knowing our Savior knows who we are
“My son, peace be unto thy soul . . . but a moment . . . ”
Savior to Joseph Smith in jail
The Lord is a lord of peace, not confusion
Savior’s atonement would overcome
“To believe in God is to know the rules will all be fair and
there will be wonderful surprises”
Peace is not found by wealth . . . pleasure . . . this
cannot obtain everlasting peace
“Where can I turn for Peace?” (song)
The Savior
How do we stay close to the Savior?
Repentance and living righteously
“I’ll drop by burden at his feet, and bear a song away”
(song)
The church is a refuge where we can obtain peace
Temples where many of these ordinances occur
Temple grounds are where we can feel peace
The Savior is the source of True peace
Righteous living will be rewarded with peace
Blessed with the comforteror (Holy Ghost)
“Peace be unto you, peace I leave you . . . that in me ye
might have peace . . . be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
“Life up your hearts in praise to God” (?)
Song Choir/Congregation: “Rejoice, the Lord is King”
6th Speaker: Stanley G. Ellis
Be direct
Be on time
Stick to the basics
The first Article of Faith
The Holy Ghost is our: revelator, teacher, comforteror
We are not alone
We can learn from our parents
The Lord has shown us The way
To help’
To love, to lead, to
raise children, share the gospel
True to the Faith
For the Strength of the Youth
Proverbs, “Be not wise in your own eyes . . . lean not to
your own understanding”
Doing things the Lord’s way we receive blessings and his
promise, when we don’t we lose them
Samuel – finding a new King
“The Lord seeth not as man seeth, man looketh on the outward
appearance, the Lord looketh on the heart”
Promote self-relieance
Things should be
done for a person’s self – we need to be able to do things
Missionary Work
Preach My Gospel
Love
Authorized way and
time to express that love
Bloom where we are planted
What happens in the home is far more important than what
happens outside
The Lord will guide us if we seek his confirmation
Ask which ward needs a good family, not which is the best
ward?
Do all we do in His way
In the gift of His son, he has prepared a good way
Alma, “Oh that I were an Angel! . . . might not be more sorrow upon the face
of the whole earth.”
Heavenly Father knows us and wants to help
7th Speaker: John B. Dickson
Acts 1 – ministered 40 days after His resurrection
Matthew – take the gospel to all the nations
Acts 10-11
Process and
pattern of the expansion of the church
Cornelius – centurian
Paul – formerly Saul
Take the Gospel to the world
1830, the church has moved steadily since then
1978, Spencer W. Kimball, Priesthood – all worthy males
could receive it
Have little of what matters least and have a lot of what
matters most
8th Speaker: David A Bednar
Why is the law of Chastity so important?
All human beings are created in the image of God
All lived as spirit children with the Lord before coming to
Earth
Bodies present a: Breadth, depth and intensity of experience
We can experience things through the bodies we have: sorrow,
pleasure, pain, ache, etc.
Adam and Eve
“Neither the man
without the woman, nor the woman without the man”
Marriage between a man and a woman
Fidelity between husband and wife after marriage
Agents blessed with moral agency
“The natural man is the earthy man – rude animal passions
that overshadow the spiritual”
The natural man (in the church) is spiritual
We have inherited diving principles from the Lord
Our spiritual body is subject to the fall
The test: “Will I respond to the enticings of the natural
man, or will I put them off and be [like unto the Lord]?”
Natural man may be overcome by the Atonement of Chirst
The Lord wants: To Be together in the light and full of hope
The Father of Lies wants us to be alone, in the dark and
without hope
Damned: stopped of progression – stopped of becoming like
unto the Lord
The very tool the Adversay doesn’t have (a body) is the one
thing that he continuall attacks: he wants us to defile it and cause it harm
Look beyond mortality and into Eternity
Alma’s counsel to his son Shiblom
Curb the natural man in each of us
Love increases though righteous restraint, decreases through
indulgences
“. . . the pure in heart shall see God . . . let virture
garnish thy thoughts unceasingly . . . God”
Pursue the path of chastity
Walk in the light with hope
The Lord: the Great Physician
Consider sin as a physical pain
The Atonement has the healing salve
Only applied
through faith, obedience, [?]
Bishop or Branch President is the physician to you
Serious spiritual wounds require time to heal fully
Obedience to the law of chastity will make us happy
Chasisity and virture are now
Most dear and
precious of all things
9th Speaker: Russell M. Nelson
Missionary Work – enthuesiam
Now is your time to prepare to teach others
YM/YW circulutiom is important
Apply to colleges before going on a mission – you can be
accepted, then take the time to go on a mission
Live exemplary lives
Be prepared to answer questions from friends
Respond by
saying, “Let’s ask the missionaries!”
Be by their side as they teach
Catch the wave
“Pinching pennies from piggybanks becomes your practice”
Contribute to the General Missionary Fund
Catch the wave with faith and enthuesiam
Other people not of our faith can catch the wave too
Through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever
193 years ago, “This is my beloved son, hear him.”
Our living God is a loving God
He wants his children to gain glory and eternal life
Book of Mormon in fully harmony with the Bible
The Restoration of the Gospel
BOM is the centerpiece of the Restoration
Doctrine and Covenants contains more revelation
Catch the wave and spread the gospel to the entire world
Song: “More Holiness Give Me”
Closing Prayer: Elder J. Debin Cornish – of 70
