I would like to highlight a few segments. The picture I used is a bit lighthearted, but it is Gordon B Hinckley sitting with Ezra Taft Benson. Gordon B Hinckley read the talk because Ezra Taft Benson was unable to. I am assuming due to health. It is such a powerful talk and could be picked apart and written into a book. But, I’m sure it is a book that no one wants to write because so many elements of this talk cut to the heart. And, there are many so entrenched in their pride and their enmity toward God is so deep that they can not accept this truth.
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If we are to build that Zion – Gordon B Hinckley October 2021 General Conference
If we are to build that Zion – Gordon B Hinckley October 2021 General Conference
The Prophets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Prophets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order. From Joseph Smith to Russell M Nelson.
Yes, but I am clean.
Then I rushed to what appeared to be a great opening, or door. I knocked and the door opened, and the man who stood there was the Prophet Joseph Smith. He looked at me a little reprovingly, and the first words he said: ‘Joseph, you are late.’ Yet I took confidence and [replied]:
“‘Yes, but I am clean—I am clean!’
Mediocrity is of the Adversary
I served my mission from 1995 to 1997. My mission president was Walter John Bailey III. It’s coming up on 30 years at this point. In a recent post, I spoke of the mediocre member. It caused me to reflect upon my mission and a phrase I heard my mission president speak a few times. All these years later, those words have stuck with me. They were: “mediocrity is of the adversary.”