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Quentin L. Cook
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October 2023
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Sunday Morning Session
We read in the Pearl of Great Price that the Lord revealed to Abraham the eternal nature of spirits.
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Julie B. Beck
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April 2006
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Saturday Morning Session
In Kirtland, when the remaining priesthood keys were restored, the Lord said, “This is the beginning of the blessing which shall be poured out upon the heads of my people.” I am grateful for the outpouring of blessings that has come to each of us through the priesthood of God.
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James E. Faust
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October 2002
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Saturday Morning Session
Abraham, however, is remembered more as the grand patriarch of the Lord’s covenant people.
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 1989
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Saturday Afternoon Session
She need not have majored in physics to know divine truths, as “there is no such thing as immaterial matter.” (D&C 131:7.) She need not have graduated in astronomy to learn lessons taught by God to Abraham—the relation of the earth to the sun, the sun to the planets, the planets to the center of the universe, and more.
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Marion G. Romney
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April 1971
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Abraham’s account of the great pre-earth heavenly council identifies both God and Satan as participators in that council.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2025
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Sunday Morning Session
Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord revealed a few things about our pre-earth life.
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Neil L. Andersen
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April 2019
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Saturday Afternoon Session
We lived before our birth.
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Reyna I. Aburto
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April 2018
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Sunday Morning Session
One of the most remarkable creatures on earth is the monarch butterfly.
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L. Tom Perry
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October 2006
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Sunday Morning Session
We first heard about the plan of salvation before we were born, in what the scriptures call our first estate (see Abraham 3:26).
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Julie B. Beck
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April 2004
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Sunday Morning Session
In my experience I have seen that some of the truest mother hearts beat in the breasts of women who will not rear their own children in this life, but they know that “all things must come to pass in their time” and that they “are laying the foundation of a great work” (D&C 64:32–33).
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Sheri L. Dew
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October 2001
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Saturday Morning Session
Our Father’s patterns help us avoid deception.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
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April 1998
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Saturday Morning Session
be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 1993
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Speaking of mothers, the First Presidency said: “Motherhood thus becomes a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord’s plans, a consecration of devotion to the uprearing and fostering, the nurturing in body, mind, and spirit, of those who kept their first estate and who come to this earth for their second estate ‘to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.’ (Abr.
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Ezra Taft Benson
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October 1988
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Sunday Afternoon Session
I testify that all those who come into mortality accepted our Father’s plan.
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William Grant Bangerter
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April 1987
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Saturday Morning Session
This is far different from “confessing Christ” as the one single requirement for salvation.
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Neal A. Maxwell
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April 1986
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Priesthood Session
The trek will be proving and trying.
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LeGrand Richards
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October 1974
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Saturday Afternoon Session
We read in the Book of Mormon that we are not all born at the same time (and that doesn’t matter) and that we don’t all die at the same time.
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Marion G. Romney
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April 1974
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Priesthood Session
As spirit sons of God, we stood in the great council in the preexistent world and heard the Father present the gospel plan.
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Harold B. Lee
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October 1973
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Friday Morning Session
There we are told that the Lord promised that those who were faithful in that premortal world would be added upon, by having a physical body in this second estate of this earth’s existence and, furthermore, if they would keep the commandments as God taught by the revelations, they would have “glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.” (Abr.
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Marion G. Romney
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April 1973
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Sunday Morning Session
Knowing that he is a child of God, one does not doubt whether to “deem himself a God or Beast.” He is not of “chaos … thought,” driven by “passion” and “all confused.” He is not “fix’d like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.” He thinks of himself, as the scriptures teach, possessed of the innate ability, as are all other reproducing offspring, to reach in final maturity the status of his heavenly parents and have “glory added upon [his] head for ever and ever...
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 1971
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Priesthood Session
“… they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.” (Abr.
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Victor L. Brown
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April 1971
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Priesthood Session
be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate [those who followed Satan] shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second estate [this life] shall have glory added upon their heads for ever
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