Kevin R. Jergensen -Church Auditing Department Report, 2014
Brook P. Hales -Statistical Report, 2014
- Total Membership: 15,372,337
- Full-Time Missionaries: 85,147
- Church-Service Missionaries: 30,404
David A. Bednar -Therefore They Hushed Their Fears
- Notably, one of the first effects of the Fall was for Adam and Eve to experience fear. This potent emotion is an important element of our mortal existence.
- Knowledge of the Savior's protecting watchcare enables people to hush their own fears.
- Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me.
- Faith and hope invite into our lives the sweet peace of conscience for which we all yearn.
- The power of the Atonement makes repentance possible and quells the despair caused by sin; it also strengthens us to see, do, and become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited mortal capacity.
- Three basic principles are central to receiving this blessing [to hush our fears] in our lives: 1. Look to Christ, 2. Build upon the foundation of Christ, and 3. Press forward with faith in Christ.
- We can be blessed to conquer our fears and strengthen our faith as we follow the lord's instruction: "Look unto me in every thought: doubt not, fear not."
D. Todd Christofferson -Why Marriage, Why Family
- Marriage is more than your love for each other. ... In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations.
- In your love you see only the heaven of your own happiness, but in marriage you are placed at a post of responsibility towards the world and mankind.
- Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man.
- So love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God.
- Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.
- Everyone has gifts; everyone has talents; everyone can contribute to the unfolding of the divine plan in each generation.
Wilford W. Andersen -The Music of the Gospel
- It is hard to dance without music. Dancing without music is awkward and unfulfilling--even embarrassing.
- We learn the dance steps with our minds, but we hear the music with our hearts.
- The dance steps of the gospel are things we do; the music of the gospel is the joyful spiritual feeling that comes from the Holy Ghost. It brings a change of heart and is the source of all righteous desires. The dance steps require discipline, but the joy of the dance will be experienced only when we come to hear the music.
- Our children's happiness depends on their ability to hear and love the beautiful music of the gospel.
- If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we need to tune them up.
- We must ponder the path of our feet.
- Dissonance in the home is like darkness in a room. It does little good to scold the darkness. We must displace the darkness by introducing light.
- If you're not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.
- Even when performed well, the music will not solve all of our problems. There will still be crescendos and decrescendos in our lives, staccatos and legatos. Such is the nature of life on planet earth.
Dale G. Renlund -Latter-day Saints Keep on Trying
- A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
- God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were. He cares that we keep on trying.
- One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.
- Just as God rejoices when we persevere, He is disappointed if we do not recognize that others are trying too.
- The Church is like a big hospital, and we are all sick in our own way. We come to church to be helped.
- We must not only be tolerant while others work on their individual illnesses; we must also be kind, patient, supportive, and understanding.
- As God encourages us to keep on trying, He expects us to also allow others the space to do the same, at their own pace.
Michael T. Ringwood -Truly Good and without Guile
- Over the years, I have come to the realization that I am far more impressed by those wonderful and blessed souls who are truly good and without guile.
- Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.
Quentin L. Cook -The Lord Is My Light
- When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us.
- So much in life is extraneous, [but] ... the family is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; the thing to watch over an care for and be loyal to.
Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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