Welcome to Conference

"Welcome to Conference"

by President Thomas S. Monson

"Thank you, my brothers and sisters, for your faith and devotion to the gospel of Jesus Christ."

"Once again we call upon the members of the Church to reach out to the new converts or to those making their way back into the Church, to surround them with love and to help them feel at home."

"May the Lord bless you as you strive to follow Him and to obey His commandments."

"It is my prayer that we may be filled with His Spirit as we listen and learn."

Each month I receive an Ensign of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In April, the church had a General Conference which is what they put in the Ensign the following month that included each and every talk that was spoken there. For each talk I highlighted my favorite parts. I will have more General Conference highlights...

General Conference: for those that don't know what this is, it is where the leaders of the church speak to the members of the church about different topics. For some of us, General Conference is a way of guidance, others it may be for comfort. It is also a time of learning

Words of Comfort

September 23, 2010

So, I like to go back into my "church journals" and look up scriptures that were written from past writings. I can always find scriptures that bring comfort and, sometimes, bring an answer to me or even just something that is enlightening to me. Well, this past Thursday I did that, and what do ya know...I found a bunch of them that definitely brought comfort to me. It just helped me to realize the truthfulness of the gospel, and of Christ. Here are the scriptures that I found:

St. John 14:26-31

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

"Ye have heard how I said unto you, I do away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

"And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

"Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

"But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence."

The Holy Ghost

"The gift of the Holy Ghost quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use...It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features...It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being." ---Parley P. Pratt

The Bible Dictionary states: "The power can come upon one before baptism, and is the convincing witness that the gospel is true. It gives one a testimony of Jesus Christ and of his work and of the work of his servants upon the earth....the gift of the Holy Ghost is the right to have, whenever one is worthy...When a person speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost that same power carries a conviction of the truth into the heart of the hearer...the Holy Ghost knows all things and can lead one to know of future events...Comforter"