Latter-Day Saints Quotations

13/04/2023

For the past several years, my daughter Kristen has prepared this game that centers on important messages from the most recent general conference.

I have shared it on Facebook several times, and now many of you look forward to receiving it. It’s a wonderful way to reflect on the lessons learned from conference and to help each of us come closer to the Savior.

If you would like to play the April 2023 version of the game, you can download it here: http://spr.ly/6185OKm5H

Here are the instructions for this game:
1. Download the file to your own computer.
2. Click on “Play Slideshow.” This will take you to the home page.
3. Divide into teams.
4. The first team chooses a session and point amount. Click on the chosen question and answer.
5. If the team answers correctly, they get the points; if not, the other team is allowed a chance to answer the question.
6. Click on the question again for the answer. (On a few of the questions, you will need to click more than once for the multiple answers or pictures that go with the response.)
7. Click on the “Home” button (at the bottom-right corner of the question) to return to the main page. (The question will darken so you know it has already been chosen.)
8. The other team now gets the chance to choose and answer a question. Note: On a few questions, there is something that says “CHOOSE YOUR POINTS!” Before looking at the question, decide how many points you want the question to be worth. (The maximum amount is how many points you have.) If you get the answer correct, you get that many points. If you get it incorrect, you lose that many points.
9. When all the questions are answered (or you’ve run out of time), have each team decide how many points they want to use for the final question and have them write it down.
10. Click on “FINAL QUESTION” at the bottom of the main page. Have the teams write their answers down and then share them with the group.
11. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins—although everyone is really a winner for reviewing what they learned at general conference!
Throughout the game, let people talk about what was meaningful to them. Share your thoughts and testimony. Encourage your group to discuss specific things you will do to follow the counsel that was given.

12/04/2023

Several years ago, all of our locally available children and grandchildren spent the Thanksgiving holiday with us. We counted 63 people in attendance.

As part of our after-dinner program, a sheet of paper was distributed to each individual and they were invited to complete this thought: “This year, I am thankful for . . .”

While we read aloud the statements from our family members (and reviewed the drawings made by some of the children), I observed a pattern.

Generally, the children were thankful for food, clothing, shelter, family, and, occasionally, pets. Their pictures were precious, though not likely to be shown in an art gallery.

Our youth broadened their expressions to include gratitude for their country, freedom, and church.

The adults noted most of those items, but in addition mentioned the temple, their love of the Lord, and their appreciation for His Atonement.

Their hopes were combined with gratitude. For each of us that day, we were reminded that counting blessings is better than recounting problems.

As we continue to face tumultuous times full of apparent reasons to lose hope, I instead invite you to look for ways to be grateful and to express that gratitude to others. As you do so, your attitude of gratitude will strengthen the hope in Christ you feel, no matter the trials you face.

12/04/2023

To those who may feel they have somehow forfeited their place at the table of the Lord, we say again...that God has “a forgiving disposition,” that Christ is “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, is long-suffering and full of goodness.”

If you feel too spiritually maimed to come to the feast, please realize that the Church is not a monastery for perfect people, though all of us ought to be striving on the road to godliness.

One aspect of the Church is more like a hospital or an aid station, provided for those who are ill and want to get well, where one can get an infusion of spiritual nutrition and a supply of sustaining water in order to keep on climbing. - Jeffrey R. Holland

12/04/2023

No matter what we're going through, be of good cheer. Heavenly Father is with us. He loves us.

17/12/2022

"Whatever our current direction or distance to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, we can choose to turn toward Them and draw closer to Them."

24/06/2022

Sometimes our most earnest and worthy desires are not answered in the way we hope, but we find that God has greater blessings in store.

09/10/2021

04/10/2021

When the love of God sets the tone for our own lives, for our relationship to each other and ultimately our feeling for all humankind, then old distinctions, limiting labels, and artificial divisions begin to pass away, and peace increases.

If we love God enough to try to be fully faithful to Him, He will give us the ability, the capacity, the will, and the way to love our neighbor and ourselves. Perhaps then we will be able to say again, “There could not be a happier people among all the people who have been created by the hand of God.” — Jeffrey R. Holland

14/09/2021

A leader held up two soda cans. In one hand she held a can that was empty and in the other hand a can that was unopened and full of soda.

First, she squeezed the empty can; it began to bend and then collapsed under the pressure. Next, with her other hand, she squeezed the unopened can. It held firm. It didn’t bend or collapse like the empty can—because it was filled.

We likened this demonstration to our individual lives and to our homes and families. When filled with the Spirit and with gospel truth, we have the power to withstand the outside forces of the world that surround and push against us.

However, if we are not filled spiritually, we don’t have the inner strength to resist the outside pressures and can collapse when forces push against us.

Satan knows that in order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth. So he does everything in his power to dilute, distort, and destroy the truth of the gospel and to keep us separated from that truth.

08/09/2021

Let God's light shine through us. 💛

18/06/2021

When was the last time you prayed earnestly to God? How did He respond to your prayers? When you received the answer to your prayers, how did you act upon it?

👉 𝐓𝐚𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞.

09/06/2021

Its takes faith...

Russell M. Nelson