:: Being Mormon ::

President Faust
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A history of apostasy and restoration.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
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A message to the broken-hearted and despairing. Meaningful and personal connections with Jesus are the key to inner peace. No matter what your problems, come first to the gospel of Jesus Christ. He has engraven us upon his hands.
Elder Earl C. Tingey
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“Is there any happiness in death?”

The Book of Mormon answers this with five truths from the Great Plan of Happiness.

1. There is a God, and he has a son, Jesus Christ. They both have physical bodies and lived once.

2. Knowing the identity of God and Jesus Christ allows us to know that we were sent here to gain bodies and live.

3. Through the atonement, we can escape the eternal consequences of our sins and return to God.

4. The fall of Adam and Eve brought about physical and spiritual death. All mankind will suffer both kinds, but both can be overcome as well. The resurrection of Jesus Christ ensured that all mankind will also be resurrected. Overcoming spiritual death is available to us through the atonement.

5. Christ inherited mortality from his mother, Mary, and immortality from his father, God. This dual nature allowed him to perform the infinite atonement that alone allows us to repent.

Sister Ann Pingree
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Service helps us get through difficult circumstances — not just receiving service, but giving it. As we serve, we move beyond ourselves and appreciate our own blessings better. A firm determination to serve, even through personal difficulty, will result in tremendous success.

Dallin H. Oaks
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When we follow a commandment from the prophet, we will always receive the blessings of obedience. Additional blessings will depend on our own attitude toward our actions. The recent counsel to read the Book of Mormon is a good example of this — what we get from the book is determined largely by how we read it and what we are looking for.

The Book of Mormon teaches us of the reality of Christ’s mission and humanity. The message of the gospel is spreading internationally through the book.

President Gordon B. Hinckley
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The life of the Prophet belongs to the entire church. President Hinckley shares reflections on his life and some journal entries from the 1950’s, before he was called to be a General Authority.
“My shadow on this land is worth more than the labor of all of you.” (A father to his sons, after they’d been managing the farm for a while during his illness.)

“A man must get his satisfaction from his work each day; must recognize that his family will remember him, and he will get his final reward from the Lord.”

“The nations of the earth shall hear thy voice and be brought to a knowledge of the truth by the wonderful testimony which thou shalt bear.” (From President Hinckley’s patriarchal blessing.)

This talk continues the theme of this conference, that President Hinckley is not going to be here much longer. (”I hope you will not view this as an obituary!”)
“I apologize again for speaking in a personal vein.”

Testimony of Joseph Smith’s first vision.