General Conference Preparation

With another General Conference beginning soon, this is an excellent time to review with your students some of the many wonderful doctrines taught during the last General Conference.

Also, a day or two prior to General Conference you may wish to share these statements about Conference (that were spoken during the last General Conference).

From President Hinckley:

"...what a miracle these conferences are. There is nothing to compare with them anywhere in the world. When you think that we gather here in this great conference hall and that what we say is carried all across the world so that people on every continent worship together the living God, it is truly and wonderfully a miracle."

(Ensign, November 2006, p. 107)

And from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland:

"In my own expression of testimony and gratitude for the messages and meaning of general conference, may I suggest three things these twice-yearly gatherings declare to all the world.

First, they declare eagerly and unequivocally that there is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! ...

Secondly, each of these conferences marks a call to action not only in our own lives but also on behalf of others around us, those who are of our own family and faith and those who are not. ...

Lastly, a general conference of the Church is a declaration to all the world that Jesus is the Christ, that He and His Father, the God and Father of us all, appeared to the boy prophet Joseph Smith in fulfillment of that ancient promise that the resurrected Jesus of Nazareth would again restore His Church on earth and again "come in like manner as [those Judean Saints had] seen him [ascend] into heaven" (Acts 1:11)."

(Ensign, November 2006, pp. 105-106)

Best wishes,

Ken

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