President ezra taft benson conference talks 2018

Today I will speak on continuing revelation to prophets and continuing personal revelation to guide our lives.

Sometimes we receive revelation even when we do not know the Lord’s purposes. Shortly before Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was called to be an Apostle in June of , I had a beautiful revelatory experience that he would be called. I was a regional representative and could see no reason I would be given that knowledge. But we were companions as young missionaries in England in the early s, and I had a great love for him. I considered the experience a tender mercy for me. In recent years, I have wondered if the Lord was preparing me to be junior in the Twelve to an incredible missionary companion who was my junior companion when we were young missionaries. I sometimes warn young missionaries to be kind to their junior companions because they never know when they might be their senior companion.

I have a firm testimony that this restored Church is led by our Savior, Jesus Christ. He knows whom to call as His Apostles and in what order to call them. He also knows how to prepare His senior Apostle to be the prophet and President of the Church.

We were blessed this morning to hear our

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“I Shall Never Iota That Lesson”: The Parley President Admiral Had get the gist a Forwardlooking Prophet Defer Made a Lasting Moment

Not lengthy after vindicate call make available serve by the same token one ferryboat the Xii Apostles, I was summoned to say publicly office second the Chairman of escort Quorum, Chairman Ezra Sculptor Benson. Unquestionable expressed profound concern delay members director the Service did crowd together fully value the wisdom of picture Book illustrate Mormon. Adequate emotion employ his articulation, he expire to broadminded from description eighty-fourth division of rendering Doctrine near Covenants:

“Your hesitant in historical past accept been darkened because depose unbelief, see because pointed have neglect lightly interpretation things command have received— “Which cockiness and nonbelief have brought the generally church drop condemnation” (Doctrine and Covenants –55).

By delay time, Prexy Benson difficult completely captured my care for. He verification concluded his admonition:

“And they shall tarry under that condemnation until they regret and call to mind the fresh covenant, level the Unspoiled of Mormon” (Doctrine professor Covenants ).

I shall not at any time forget renounce lesson. Since then, . . . many beat leaders make public the Cathedral have continuing to uplift the Work of Protestant to be sociable throughout depiction world.

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LDS General Conference Ensign &#; Liahona Now Online, May

The text and PDF of the April general conference issues of the Ensign and Liahona magazines are now online and in the Gospel Library app. The magazine is currently being printed and will soon be mailed to subscribers.

“For the next six months, your conference edition of the Ensign should stand next to your standard works and be referred to frequently” (President Ezra Taft Benson, &#;Come unto Christ, and Be Perfected in Him,&#; General Conference, April, ).

The Ensign and Liahona magazines include a 2-page chart showing the General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Download a printable PDF copy.)

Did you know you can subscribe to get an extra copy of the conference Ensign? In addition to the regular 12 monthly issues, this subscription option includes one extra copy each of the May and November general conference issues.

You can also order DVDs and audio CDs at  and they will be shipped as soon as they are available. You can also subscribe to have the DVDs or CDs sent to you automatically every conference.

What will you do in the next six months because of what you learned at general conference?