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Becky Craven
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April 2019
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Saturday Morning Session
The vision of the tree of life shows us how the effects of casualness can lead us away from the covenant path.
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Larry Y. Wilson
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April 2018
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Sunday Morning Session
Ensign Blair’s ability to receive revelation saved him and his shipmates from a raging storm.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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October 2017
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General Women’s Session
There was a narrow path that led to the tree, and alongside was an iron rod that helped them stay on the path.
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Gregory A. Schwitzer
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October 2015
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Sunday Morning Session
Over the many years that I have studied the story of Lehi’s dream in the Book of Mormon, I have always thought of the great and spacious building as a place where only the most rebellious reside.
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Quentin L. Cook
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April 2012
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The great introductory vision in the Book of Mormon is Lehi’s prophetic dream of the tree of life.
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Thomas S. Monson
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October 2011
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Priesthood Session
In Lehi’s vision of the tree of life, found in 1 Nephi 8, Lehi sees, among others, those who hold to the iron rod until they come forth and partake of the fruit of the tree of life, which we know is a representation of the love of God.
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Merrill J. Bateman
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October 1992
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Lehi’s great visionary dream came soon after he had searched the brass plates (see 1 Ne.
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Steven C. Barlow
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October 2025
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Saturday Evening Session
God’s love is perfect, infinite, enduring, and “most sweet.” It fills the soul with “exceedingly great joy.” Nevertheless, at times we may find it difficult to recognize God’s love in our lives.
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Ozani Farias
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October 2025
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Just as Lehi desired to share the fruit of the tree of life with his family (see 1 Nephi 8:12), when we gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon, we develop a desire to share the joy that comes from knowing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Benjamin M. Z. Tai
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April 2025
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Sunday Afternoon Session
When we experience the love of God, we can bear up our burdens with ease and submit patiently and cheerfully to His will.
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David A. Bednar
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April 2023
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Sunday Afternoon Session
What was the symbolism of the tree in Lehi’s vision?
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D. Todd Christofferson
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October 2019
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Saturday Morning Session
Keeping the Lord’s commandments enables us more fully and more easily to feel His love.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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October 2018
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The healing hands of Jesus Christ reach out to all who seek Him.
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Ronald A. Rasband
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April 2016
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Saturday Afternoon Session
As we press forward, choosing to follow the counsel and the warnings of our leaders, we choose to follow the Lord while the world is going in another direction.
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David A. Bednar
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October 2014
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Sunday Afternoon Session
This same pattern is especially evident in matters of great spiritual importance and consequence.
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Quentin L. Cook
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April 2012
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Finally, there are those who are in tune with the music of faith.
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Neil L. Andersen
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October 2010
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Nephi described the tree as “the love of God,” bearing fruit that “filled [the] soul with exceedingly great joy.”
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L. Tom Perry
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April 2008
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Saturday Afternoon Session
I love the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it defines the way we can partake of the fruits of the gospel, experience the “exceedingly great joy” (1 Nephi 8:12) that only it can bring, and endure to the end through all of the challenges of mortal life.
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 2005
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Saturday Morning Session
For example, I read that the prophet Lehi partook of the fruit of the tree of life and said, “Wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit” (1 Nephi 8:12).
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Mary Ellen Smoot
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October 1999
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General Relief Society Meeting
“And as I partook of the fruit it filled my soul with joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other
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Ezra Taft Benson
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October 1985
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Priesthood Session
Lehi, Nephi’s father, lived an exemplary life.
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L. Tom Perry
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April 1985
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Nephi was taught in the ways of the gospel by his father, Lehi.
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