Robert W. Cantwell -Church Auditing Department Report, 2011
Brook P. Hales -Statistical Report, 2011
- Total Membership: 14,441,346
- Full-Time Missionaries: 55,410
- Church-Service Missionaries: 22,299
Jeffrey R. Holland -The Laborers in the Vineyard
- Brothers and sisters, there are going to be times in our lives when someone else gets an unexpected blessing or receives some special recognition. May I plead with us not to be hurt--and certainly not to feel envious--when good fortune comes to another person? We are not diminished when someone else is added upon. We are not in a race against each other to see who is the wealthiest or the most talented or the most beautiful or even the most blessed. The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.
- Furthermore, envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires us to suffer all good fortune that befalls everyone we know! What a bright prospect that is--downing another quart of pickle juice every time anyone around you has a happy moment!
- Don't dwell on old issues or grievances--not toward yourself nor your neighbor nor even, I might add, toward this true and living Church.
- His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.
Robert D. Hales -Coming to Ourselves: The Sacrament, the Temple, and Sacrifice in Service
- For the sacrament to be a spiritually cleansing experience each week, we need to prepare ourselves before coming to sacrament meeting.
David S. Baxter -Faith, Fortitude, Fulfillment: A Message to Single Parents
- Although you may at times have asked, why me? it is through the hardships of life that we grow toward godhood as our character is shaped in the crucible of affliction, as the events of life take place while God respects the agency of man. As Elder Neal A. Maxwell commented, we cannot do all the sums or make it all add up because "we do not have all the numbers."
- This is not exactly what you hoped or planned, prayed for or expected, when you started out years ago. Your journey through life has had bumps, detours, twists, and turns, mostly as the result of life in a fallen world that is meant to be a place of proving and testing.
- In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens.
- Although you often feel alone, in truth you are never totally on your own. As you move forward in patience and in faith, Providence will move with you; heaven will bestow its needful blessings.
- Many of you have already discovered the great, transforming truth that when you live to lift the burdens of others, your own burdens become lighter. Although circumstances may not have changed, your attitude has. You are able to face your own trials with greater acceptance, a more understanding heart, and deeper gratitude for what you have, rather than pining for what you yet lack.
Ulisses Soares -Abide in the Lord's Territory!
- You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.
- "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great."
- "There is a line of demarcation well defined between the Lord's territory and the devil's territory. If you will stay on the Lord's side of the line you will be under his influence and will have no desire to do wrong; but if you cross the devil's side of that line one inch you are in the tempter's power and if he is successful, you will not be able to think or even reason properly because you will have lost the Spirit of the Lord."
Quentin L. Cook -In Tune with the Music of Faith
- What we are speaks so loudly that our children may not hear what we say.
- The Book of Mormon is of seminal importance. There will, of course, always be those who underestimate the significance of or even disparage this sacred book.
- Clearly, a dividing line between those who hear the music of faith and those who are tone-deaf or off-key is the active study of the scriptures.
- When one is tone-deaf to the music of faith, he or she is out of tune with the Spirit.
Richard G. Scott -How to Obtain Revelation and Inspiration for Your Personal Life
- Relationships can be strengthened through the veil with people we know and love. That is done by our determined effort to continually do what is right. We can strengthen our relationship with the departed individual we love by recognizing that the separation is temporary and that covenants made in the temple are eternal. When consistently obeyed, such covenants assure the eternal realization of the promises inherent in them.
- Loud, inappropriate laughter will offend the Spirit. A good sense of humor helps revelation; loud laughter doe snot. A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.
- Careful, quiet speech will favor the receipt of revelation.
- When it is for the Lord's purposes, He can bring anything to our remembrance. That should not weaken our determination to record impressions of the Spirit. Inspiration carefully recorded shows God that His communications are sacred to us. Recording will also enhance our ability to recall revelation. Such recording of direction of the Spirit should be protected from loss or intrusion by others.
- One who is obedient to His commandments is trusted of the Lord. That individual has access to His inspiration to know what to do and, as needed, the divine power to do it.
- Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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