April 1992 General Conference Saturday Morning

Thomas S. Monson -Memories of Yesterday, Counsel for Today

• Ten suggestions for mothers as they guide their precious children
• Take time to always be at the crossroads in the lives of your children.
• Take time to be a real friend to your children.
• Take time to read to your children.
• Take time to pray with your children.
• Take time to have a meaningful weekly home evening.
• Take time to be together at mealtimes as often as possible
• Take time daily to read the scriptures together as a family.
• Take time to do things together as a family.
• Take time to teach your children.
• Take time to truly love your children.
• Strive to make your home a little bit of heaven on earth.

James E. Faust -Spiritual Healing

• "He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
• Our hurry to meet the relentless demands of the clock tears away at our inner peace.
• One reason for the spiritual sickness of our society is that so many do not know or care about what is morally right and wrong.
• Someway, somehow, we must find the healing influence that brings solace to the soul.
• Our sacrament meetings should be worshipful and healing, restoring those who attend to spiritual soundness.
• The ultimate spiritual healing comes in the forgetting of self.
• "There is never a time when the spirit is too old to approach God."

Marion D. Hanks -The Royal Law

• Helping, giving, sacrificing are, or should be, as natural as growing and breathing.
• He and our Father are concerned with what kind of people we are!
• He had acquired the habit of helpfulness through persistent experience helping, noticing needs, and reaching out in response to them.

Yoshihiko Kikuchi -"The Pure Love of God"

• "Pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart," we "may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ."

Alexander B. Morrison -Nourish the Flock of Christ

• If we do not constantly receive the spiritual nourishment needed daily, we will soon--as individuals and societies--be in dire straits, bereft of God's protection, cut off from the healing influences of the Spirit.
• We, if spiritually weakened, {will be} be ready prey for the adversary and his legions of dupes and devils.
• "I that speak unto thee am he."
• "Whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked--
• "And land their souls .. at the right hand of God in the kingdom of heaven."
• When we learn to read the "signs, and wonders, and types, and shadows" properly, with the eyes of faith we will realize that all of history, all of science, all of nature, all divinely revealed knowledge of any sort, testifies of Him.
• Wise undershepherds are never casual in their commitment to Christ and His cause, and do all in their power to encourage others to honor sacred agreements, solemnly made in the Lord's house.
• Faithful servants nourish by focusing on the individual. God loves us one by one.
• I learned as a farm boy many years ago that sheep and trouble go together! Come to think of it, so, too, do people and trouble often go together!

David B. Haight -Come to the House of the Lord

• "Hearts must be pure."
• Desire and effort are likewise required if we would receive revelation to understand.
• Let your children see you behave--toward them and your eternal companion--in kindlier, more loving ways. Your consistently positive expressions about what you experience in the temple will create in your children a desire to receive those same blessings and provide them with strong motivation to resist the temptations which could disqualify them from temple blessings.

Marvin J. Ashton -The Tongue Can Be a Sharp Sword

• In the world today we are victims of many who use their tongues as sharp swords. the misuse of our tongues seems to add intrigue and destruction.
• There is no time for the dastardly hobby of bashing instead of building.
• Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. this kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
• "No man can humiliate or disturb me. I won't let him."
• Charity is accepting someone's differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn't handle something the way we might have hoped.
• None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak.
• "The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people."
• Lend a hand to those who are frightened, lonely, or burdened.
• If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.
• "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!"
• Let us open our arms to each other, accept each other for who we are, assume everyone is doing the best he or she can, and look for ways to help leave quiet messages of love and encouragement instead of being destructive with bashing.

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi