October 1994 General Conference Sunday Morning

Gordon B. Hinckley -Save the Children

• "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
• Violent fathers produce violent sons.
• Such punishment in most instances does more damage than good. Children don't need beating. They need love an encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear.
• They need example.
• God will not be mocked concerning the abuse of his little ones.
• To be successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.
• I am satisfied that no other experiences of life draw us nearer to heaven than those that exist between happy parents and happy children.
• Save the children. Too many suffer and weep. God bless us to be mindful of them, to lift them and guide them as they walk in dangerous paths, to pray for them, to bless them, to love them, to keep them secured until they can run with strength of their own.

Boyd K. Packer -Personal Revelation: The Gift, the Test, and the Promise

• "Great men are not always wise."
• You have your agency, and inspiration does not--perhaps cannot--flow unless you ask for it, or someone asks for you.
• Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees.
• You must begin where you are.
• Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil.
• Revelation comes as words we feel more than hear.
• This voice of the Spirit speaks gently, prompting you what to do or what to say, or it may caution or warn you.
• The flow of revelation depends on your faith. You exercise faith by causing, or by making, your mind accept or believe as truth that which you cannot, by reason alone, prove for certainty.
• Be believing and your faith will be constantly replenished, your knowledge of the truth increased, and your testimony of the Redeemer, of the Resurrection, of the Restoration will be as "a well of living water, springing up unto everlasting life." You may then receive guidance on practical decisions in everyday life.
• Your body is the instrument of your mind. In your emotions, the spirit and the body come closest to being one. What you learn spiritually depends, to a degree, on how you treat your body.
• "Be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord."
• Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation.
• If ever you receive a prompting to do something that makes you feel uneasy, something you know your mind to be wrong and contrary to the principles of righteousness, do not respond to it!

L. Aldin Porter -The Revelations of Heaven

• "There is one thing which we should have exceedingly clear in our minds. Neither the President of the Church, nor the First Presidency, nor the united voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve will ever lead the Saints astray or send forth counsel to the world that is contrary to the mind and will of the Lord.
• Lord loved us and would not leave us without direction.
• Counseling comes not just for our own benefit but for the blessing of those who might be misled by something we might say or do.
• We do not need greater prophets. We need listening ears.

M. Russell Ballard -Restored Truth

• The heavens are not sealed. God does communicate with mortals. He loves us today just as much as He loved those who lived anciently.

Thomas S. Monson -The Fatherless and the Widows--Beloved of God

• We, too, can bless if we will but follow his noble example.
• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone.
• "We who are young should never become so blindly absorbed in our own pursuits as to forget that there are still with us those who will live in loneliness unless we let them share our lives as once they let us share theirs."
• God grant that those who belong to us may never be left in loneliness.
• Frequently the need of the widow is not one of food or shelter but of feeling a part of ongoing events.

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

-Sarnic Dirchi

The Dream

Involved Captain Hook from Once Upon a Time...he was on a quest to rescue all the children from Neverland and convince them that they needed to grow up.

-S.N.D