189​th​ Annual General Conference * April 6 - 7, 2019

Saturday AM​ * ​Saturday PM​ * ​Priesthood​ * ​Sunday AM​ * ​Sunday PM

Sunday Afternoon ​Session

Hymn: ​Sweet Is The Work​ - Hymn 147
Conducting: President Eyring
Hymn: (Hymn) - Hymn (#)
Invocation: (Name)
Hymn: ​Come Unto Jesus ​– Hymn 117

Talk: ​President Dallin Oaks​ – First Counselor in the First Presidency

Cleansed by Repentance
Major Themes: Laws of God and Man, Hope, Repentance
Stories:
● In man’s law, a person can be sentenced to life in prison without parole, the same is not true in God’s
law. All can be forgiven in mortality with broken heart.
● There is hope for people who removed their names but there is a price
● The prize of repentance is worth the price
● Repentance begins with faith in Christ and is a joy not a burden … and is essential to God’s plan.
● We must repent of all our actions and inactions that are contrary to the commandments of God
● To be cleansed we must confess to the Lord and to a mortal judge where required and bring forth
works of righteousness.
● We ALL must repent to come unto Christ
● Accountability includes mortal and divine judgments
○ Mortal judges are responsible to help people become worthy. After mortal judgement, the
person still needs to come to terms with God
● Are we going to do all the Lord asks us to do?
● Are we worthy for this or that… Unrepentant person is going to remain Unclean
● The final judgment won’t change who we are in mortality
○ To be clean before God must repent before this final judgment
● Repentance is possible but more difficult in the spirit world
● Don’t procrastinate our repentance till death
● Our Savior's arms are always open for all of us
● Press forward we got this! If so, we will have eternal life

Talk: ​Elder Juan Pablo Villar​ - General Authority Seventy

Exercising Our Spiritual Gifts
Major Themes: Spiritual gifts;
Stories: Visiting his missionary brother and changing plans
● Spiritual gifts work the same way as physical muscles. They have to be worked to grow. Learning about
muscles won’t build muscles. Learning about faith won’t build faith.
○ To build our faith we have to take action
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● Elder Villar’s older brother joined the church and later served a mission. Elder Villar visited his brother
hoping to spend a day playing and talking. The brother missionary had other plans and they spent the
day contacting and teaching people the gospel.
○ ‘None of the lessons were specifically designed for me but I was taught the gospel’
○ Look for people to teach
○ ‘I was a missionary without even being a member of the church’
○ You don’t have to be a missionary with a tag to be a missionary
● When we trust in God when faced with doubt, we are using spiritual muscles.
● Come follow me, seek, love as the Savior does
● If we went to increase our faith do things to make that so

Talk: ​Elder Gerrit Gong​ – Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Good Shepherd, Lamb of God
Major Themes:
Stories:
● Counting sheep only works if you aren’t worried about forgetting one of the sheep
● The lord is our lamb of god/ good shepherd
● 1. Call the sheep by name
○ Do we know the lord's voice
● 2. Gathers His sheep
● 3. Christ exemplifies how to minister in love
● Christ is our perfect good shepherd.
● Christ is the perfect Lamb of God.
● Have faith on the lamb of god and Fear not
● Be the good shepherd and seek
● Seek, Gather and Come!

Hymn: ​Hark All Ye Nations​ – Hymn 264

Talk: ​Elder David Bednar​ – Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Prepared to Obtain Every Needful Thing
Major Themes: Personal responsibility; home centered/church; temple
Stories:
● “Eat your vitamins.....” Pres- Nelson
● Instead of asking what you learned about in church when you get home from church, ask in our church
meetings, what did you learn about the savior and the gospel in your home?
● We shouldn’t expect the church to tell us everything we need to know and do to become disciples.
● Joseph’s experience with the first vision provides a pattern for us to emulate. We must learn for
ourselves.
○ I have learned for myself
○ We need to learn for ourself
○ See, Hear and Know for ourself
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● We cannot expect to simply attend church meetings and participate in programs and gain enough … to
… stand in the evil day.
● The ultimate responsibility lies with each one of us for developing spiritual strength and stamina.
● If all we know about Christ and the restored gospel is what other people teach or tell us then the
foundation of our testimony of him and his latter day work is built on sand. We cannot rely upon gospel
light and knowledge from other people, even those we love and trust.
● If we read all there is to know about the relation between God and man we would know very little of it.
Knowledge can only come from the ordinances of God set forth for these purposes.
● Implications of home centered…
○ Primary missionary training centers are home, secondary are in Provo, etc.
○ Sunday school classes are in home, helpful but secondary are in church
○ Family history is in the home, secondary support is in church
○ Preparatory classes (mission, temple) is in our home, secondary at church
● As important the home centered, church supported program is today, it will become more important in
the future.
● Because of its sacred nature we are hesitant to say anything about what happens inside to our children.
As a result, our youth are ill-prepared and have little desire to seek their temple blessings.
● Guidelines…
○ 1. We should always speak about the temple with reverence. We should not disclose or
describe the symbols we receive in temple ordinances, nor the things we promise
○ 2. The temple is the house of the Lord.
■ Everything points us to our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
■ We may discuss these principles.
■ Let us speak more earnestly and comfortably about how we feel.
● We should share the spiritual feelings we have in the temple and purposes of the temple.
● The doctrinal purposes of temple ordinances have been taught extensively by church leaders.
● We can teach people about the law of the gospel, sacrifice, chastity, and consecration
● Temples.churchofjesuschrist.org
○ Excellent resources to help us teach our children/others are there.
● We should read Exodus 22-23 and Leviticus.____
● Promise that enabling blessing will flow into your life as you embrace home center church supported
gospel instruction

Talk: ​Elder Kyle McKay​ – General Authority Seventy

The Immediate Goodness of God
Major Themes: Spiritual healing; immediate goodness of God
Stories: Emily who was addicted to drugs; A snowmobile accident where a husband was seriously injured and
son was killed (Mario, Alysha, Caleb)
● ‘Soon for you is a very long time for me’
● When God’s servants say something is soon it could literally be a lifetime away.
● How long?
● There is always hope
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● Our sins can separate us from God for a time but cannot separate us from the constancy of God’s
eternal love
● Nothing can separate us from the love of God
● Story of Emily who became addicted to drugs
○ ‘The beginning of deliverance didn’t feel like deliverance at all’
○ Everything is going to be alright with the Lord’s help
○ Emily’s healing took months, with treatment, counseling, in addition to divine support
● Be filled with Peace Love and Joy
● Deliverance can take longer than you’d like but there is an immediate goodness of God

Talk: ​Elder Ronald Rasband​ – Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Build a Fortress of Spirituality and Protection
Major Themes: Fortresses
Stories: Building Fort Heber
● Go ye into your homes and ponder.
● Historically, people have built fortresses for protection. These included guard towers to help spot
attacks from a distance.
● Our homes are fortresses against the evils of the world
● We need to study together, help each other stay on the covenant path.
● Pres Nelson is the watchman on the tower, he sees the advances of the enemy. We are at war for the
souls of men.
● ⅓ of God’s children turned away in the pre-existence.
● Nephites were able to defeat the Lamanites because they were prepared, having built fortresses on the
outside and faith in Christ on the inside
● Ways we can fortify ourselves…
○ Obedience exercised with holiness of heart
■ Must work towards willing obedience
○ Trust the Lord
■ Joshua instructed the people to sanctify themselves.
○ Renew covenants through the sacrament and temple worship
○ XXXX discipline
● Your testimony is a personal fortress
● Fortresses are built one log at a time, similar to testimonies.

Hymn: (I Know That My Savior Loves Me) - Hymn (#)

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Talk: ​President Russell Nelson​ – President, prophet, seer, boss

Closing Remarks
Major Themes:
Stories:
● We thank the Lord for His inspiration and protection.
● Ones home can become a heavenly place.
● God’s objective should be our objective
● 162 dedicated temples.
● Each temple is a crowning jewel in pioneer achievement
● Pioneer temples about to be refreshed or refurbished…
○ St George
○ SLC and temple square (announcement April 19)
○ Manti (later)
○ Logan (later)
○ After each renovation, each temple will be rededicated.
● New temples
○ Pago Pago, American Samoa
○ Okinawa City
○ Neiafu Tonga
○ Tooele Valley Utah (Where is this?)
○ Moses Lake Washington
○ San Pedrosula Honduras
○ Antofagasta, Chile
○ Budapest, Hungary
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Hymn: I need thee every hour) - Hymn (#)

Benediction: Claudio Costa – General Authority Seventy

THOUGHTS:
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TO-DOs:
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● (President Oaks) Repentance, this is the time to repent.

● (Elder Villar) Come follow me, seek, love as the Savior
● (Elder Gong) Have Faith and fear not! Sing the song of the Lamb
● (Elder Bednar) 1. Ask at church what we learned at home. 2. See, hear, and know for ourselves. 3.
Teach of the Temple
● (Elder McKay) Be filled with peace, love and joy.
● (Elder Rasband) 1. Go into your homes and ponder. 2. Study together help each other stay on the
covenant path. 3. Build our home and ourselves as a fortress against the adversary.
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189​th​ Annual General Conference * April 6 - 7, 2019

Saturday AM​ * ​Saturday PM​ * ​Priesthood​ * ​Sunday AM​ * ​Sunday PM