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The 180th Annual General Conference: D. Todd Christofferson Talk

Saturday Session 2, Talk 2, D. Todd Christofferson, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Scriptures
Translations and making it widely available.
Gratitude to those who wrote the scriptures.
We were not there, but know these things since we have the scriptual references of what happened.
It helps us not forget what earlier generations and us have learned.
Scriptures are standards for truth and knowledge

Saturday Session 2, Talk 1, L. Tom Perry, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Reflecting on the training of his / our mothers.
Parents are entrusted with the education of their children.
Parents must ensure that their children are being taught what their heavenly father would have them learn.
A parent’s teachings must never be devalued.
Parents should teach their children in the home, it is increasingly important in today’s world.

Sunday Session 5, Talk 7 – D. Todd Christofferson, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

My Notes:

Moral Agency, the right to make choices and account for those choices.
WW II – James E. Faust was in enlisted in the US Army.
- Asked the question “In times of war, should not the morale code be relaxed? Does not the stress of battle justify men in doing things they would not do while at home under normal situations?”
- Answered “I do not believe there is a double standard of morality.”
Moral Discipline is the practice of exercising agency to choose the right, just be cause it is right.
Discipline’s root word is Disciple.
The more of God’s laws we obey, the fewer laws we need on earth.
Morale Discipline is learned at home.
Teach your children while you have them and convert them while they are with you.
Book of Mormon quote: “Wickedness never was happiness”
His mother’s quick correction put an abrupt end to his life of crime! 🙂
Discipline needs to be founded on faith in Heavenly Father and the son and what we can achieve with atonement of Jesus Christ.
God is our Father, his son Jesus is our redeemer. Their law is immutable, truth everlasting and love is infinite.

Sunday Session 5, Talk 1 – Jeffery R. Holland, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

My Notes:

There is one kind of latter day destruction that has sounded more personal … spiritual destruction
Held in his hand the very Book of Mormon that Hyrum had read.
Direct Testimony and Quote:
“One cannot come into full faith in this latter day work and thereby find the fullness measure of peace of comfort of these are times until he or she embraces the divinity of the book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ of whom it testifies. If anyone is foolish enough or misled enough to reject 531 pages of a here before unknown text, teaming with literary and symbolic complexity without honestly attempting to account for the origin of those pages somehow. Especially, without accounting for their powerful witness of Jesus Christ and their profound spiritual impact, that witness has had on what is now tens of millions of readers…if that’s the case, then such persons, elect or otherwise have been deceived. And if they leave this church, they must do so by crawling over or under or around the book of Mormon to make their exit. In that sense, the book is what Christ himself was said to be a stone of stumbling and a rock of offensive, a barrier in a path of one who wishes not to believe in this work. Witnesses, even witnesses who for a time hostile to Joseph, testified to their death that they had seen an angel and had handled the plates…”