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Patrick Kearon
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April 2024
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Sunday Morning Session
What do God’s messengers, His prophets, call this plan in Restoration scripture?
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Ahmad S. Corbitt
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April 2023
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Sunday Afternoon Session
I informed her that this was an effect of the law of justice.
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Quentin L. Cook
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October 2022
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Alma also gave wonderful counsel to Corianton for all of us who have gone through or will go through the repentance process, regardless of whether the sins are small or as severe as those committed by Corianton.
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James R. Rasband
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April 2020
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Saturday Morning Session
A vital and peace-giving contribution of the Book of Mormon to our understanding of the Savior’s Atonement is its teaching that Christ’s merciful sacrifice fulfills all the demands of justice.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2020
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Sunday Afternoon Session
All of this is part of a divine plan whose purpose is to enable the children of God to be exalted and become like Him.
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M. Russell Ballard
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October 2019
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Sunday Afternoon Session
During this past year, I have pondered more intently than ever before about our Heavenly Father’s plan.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2019
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General Priesthood Session
My brethren, and my sisters who may view or read what I say here, I hope you know why your leaders give the teachings and counsel we give.
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Brian K. Ashton
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October 2018
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The scriptures call this the plan of salvation.
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 2017
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Saturday Afternoon Session
This last comment made me reflect on my life decades ago as a young surgical resident.
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Weatherford T. Clayton
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April 2017
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Saturday Morning Session
Because Heavenly Father loves us, He wants us to have the greatest gift He can give, the gift of eternal life.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2017
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Sunday Morning Session
Questions like “Where did we come from?” “Why are we here?” and “Where are we going?” are answered in what the scriptures call the “plan of salvation,” the “great plan of happiness,” or the “plan of redemption” (Alma 42:5, 8, 11).
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Joaquin E. Costa
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April 2017
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The final experience I’d like to share is about repentance.
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Carole M. Stephens
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October 2016
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General Women’s Session
As we increase our understanding of the doctrine of Christ, we soon discover that we are developing a deeper understanding of “the great plan of happiness.” We also recognize that our Savior, Jesus Christ, is at the very heart of the plan.
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Quentin L. Cook
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October 2016
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Alma 42 contains some of the most magnificent doctrine on the Atonement in all scripture.
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Quentin L. Cook
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October 2016
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Alma 42 contains some of the most magnificent doctrine on the Atonement in all scripture.
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D. Todd Christofferson
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April 2015
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Prophets have revealed that we first existed as intelligences and that we were given form, or spirit bodies, by God, thus becoming His spirit children—sons and daughters of heavenly parents.
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Allan F. Packer
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October 2014
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The family is the center of the plan of salvation and perhaps why it is also called the “great plan of happiness.” President Boyd K.
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Richard G. Scott
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April 2014
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Saturday Afternoon Session
There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 2013
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Sunday Morning Session
For Latter-day Saints, God’s commandments are based on and inseparable from God’s plan for His children—the great plan of salvation.
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 2013
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The aging process is also a gift from God, as is death.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2013
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Saturday Afternoon Session
In addition, the Restoration added knowledge that Saints had anciently.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2012
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Sunday Morning Session
“it was not expedient that man should be reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the great plan of happiness.”
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 2011
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Saturday Morning Session
The gospel plan is “the great plan of happiness.” The family is the center of that plan.
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 2011
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“The great plan of happiness” centers on family life.
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Richard J. Maynes
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April 2011
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The ancient prophet Alma calls God’s plan for His children “the great plan of happiness.” The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, whom we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators, have offered us this inspired counsel with regard to happiness and family life: “The family is ordained of God.
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 2010
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Sunday Morning Session
In our day the dreadful influence of pornography is like unto a plague sweeping across the world, infecting one here and one there, relentlessly trying to invade every home, most frequently through the husband and father.
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D. Todd Christofferson
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April 2010
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Saturday Afternoon Session
In a complete reversal from a century ago, many today would dispute with Alma about the seriousness of immorality.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 2009
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Saturday Afternoon Session
This great principle helps us understand the why of many things, like justice and mercy balanced by the Atonement.
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 2009
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Saturday Afternoon Session
As children of God, we learn we are part of His “great plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8).
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 2009
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Priesthood Session
At noon today four young men, all grandsons, came to visit us.
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 2008
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Sunday Afternoon Session
My beloved brethren and sisters, I am deeply grateful for each of you.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2008
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Saturday Morning Session
Thanks to God’s great plan of happiness, families can be together forever—as exalted beings.
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Kenneth Johnson
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April 2008
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Saturday Morning Session
With knowledge of the “great plan of happiness,” we have the opportunity and also the responsibility to help restore faith in the family.
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Dean R. Burgess
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April 2008
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Priesthood Session
Alma called it “the great plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8), a plan that God prepared for you and for each of us.
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Craig C. Christensen
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April 2008
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Additionally, we explained that the Book of Mormon is a book that teaches “the great plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8; see also vv.
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Marcus B. Nash
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October 2006
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Priesthood Session
Note that to be without God in the world—in other words, to refuse to live His gospel and therefore lack the companionship of the Spirit—is to be in a state contrary to the nature of happiness.
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Earl C. Tingey
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April 2006
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Sunday Morning Session
Alma refers to the Atonement as “the great plan of happiness.” I shall use that phrase to describe the beautiful doctrine we know as the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 2005
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Saturday Morning Session
The plan of salvation, or “the great plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8; see also Alma 42:5, 12, 30).
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2005
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Saturday Morning Session
Death is a necessary component of our eternal existence.
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 2004
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Sunday Morning Session
Alma called the plan of salvation “the great plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8; see also 2 Nephi 11:5; Alma 12:25; 17:16; 34:9; 41:2; 42:5, 11–13, 15, 31; Moses 6:62).
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Bruce C. Hafen
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April 2004
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Sunday Afternoon Session
What possible pearl could be worth such a price—for Him and for us?
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 2003
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Saturday Afternoon Session
We learned about the plan of redemption—“the great plan of happiness.” We came to earth to be tested and to gain experience, with a promise that “through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.”
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Elaine S. Dalton
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April 2003
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General Young Women Meeting
In the margin she had written, “I want to marry a man like Moroni.” Seven years later, she did!
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Richard C. Edgley
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April 2002
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Sunday Morning Session
However, an understanding of Christ’s plan of redemption helps put it all into perspective.
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Christoffel Golden Jr.
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October 2001
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Likewise, latter-day revelation reveals that our Heavenly Father ordained a great plan of happiness for all of His spirit children who had kept their first estate.
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 2001
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The gospel plan is the “great plan of happiness.” It is contrary to the nature of God and contrary to the very nature of man to find happiness in sin.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2001
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Saturday Afternoon Session
I have learned that temple blessings are most meaningful when death takes a loved one away from the family circle.
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Neal A. Maxwell
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April 2001
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Sunday Morning Session
Therefore, desperately needed is longitudinal perspective, the hope of the gospel.
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Jay E. Jensen
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April 2000
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The sequence in the teaching process from this verse is that our Heavenly Father first taught Adam and Eve the plan of redemption; then He gave them commandments.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2000
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The entire Creation was planned by God.
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 1998
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“it was not expedient that man should be reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the great plan of happiness.”
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 1996
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Adam and Eve, as mortal beings, were instructed to “worship the Lord their God, and … offer the firstlings of their flocks, for an offering unto the Lord.” They were further instructed that “the life of the flesh is in the blood: … for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” Probation, procreation, and aging were all components of—and physical death was essential to—God’s “great plan of happiness.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
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October 1996
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Our faith in the Lord moves us to the second principle of the gospel: repentance.
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Richard G. Scott
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October 1996
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The scriptures record, “And I, God, created man … ; male and female created I them.” This was done spiritually in your premortal existence when you lived in the presence of your Father in Heaven.
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 1995
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Saturday Morning Session
The great plan of happiness (see Alma 42:8, 16) revealed to prophets is the plan for a happy family.
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Robert D. Hales
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April 1995
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Saturday Morning Session
The desire of the prophets is to assist our Father in Heaven and his Son Jesus Christ in bringing about the great objectives of the plan of salvation, or, as one ancient prophet called it, “the great plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8).
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M. Russell Ballard
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April 1995
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The prophet Alma called the plan “the great plan of happiness” (Alma 42:8).
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Joe J. Christensen
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April 1995
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Sunday Morning Session
Remember the central importance of your marriage.
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 1993
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Saturday Afternoon Session
In the great council in heaven, God’s plan was presented: the plan of salvation, the plan of redemption, the great plan of happiness.
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 1993
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Saturday Afternoon Session
I speak now of category two—unchanging plans.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 1993
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Questions like, Where did we come from?
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 1992
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Sunday Afternoon Session
happiness: “Now behold, it was not expedient that man should be reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the great plan of
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 1991
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Our Creator wants us to be happy in this life.
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 1989
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Sunday Morning Session
A great contribution to Christian doctrine is the explanation in the Book of Mormon of how justice and mercy and repentance and forgiveness work together to erase transgressions.
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 1988
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“Now behold, it was not expedient that man should be reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the great plan of happiness.”
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Marion D. Hanks
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October 1986
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Saturday Morning Session
He had time now—and the disposition to listen and to think.
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Neal A. Maxwell
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April 1984
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Saturday Afternoon Session
One of the great blessings flowing from amplifying, latter-day revelations is the crucial, doctrinal framework known as the marvelous plan of salvation, the plan of happiness, or the plan of mercy.
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Neal A. Maxwell
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October 1980
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Saturday Morning Session
If there are disappointments, let us not turn away but turn to, remembering Peter’s immortal interrogative of the Savior, “Lord, to whom shall we go?” (John 6:68).
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