October 2009 General Conference

20 thoughts on “October 2009 General Conference”

1. President Monson announced 5 temples:

   Brigham City, UT
   Fort Lauderdale, FL
   Concepcion, Chile
   Sapporo, Japan
   Brazil

   I didn’t hear the city in Brazil.

2. Here’s a link to the official announcement of the new temples:

   http://bit.ly/1hiwrU

3. My 11-year-old just said she likes Sister Matsumori’s voice.

4. I think it fitting Elder Clayton talked about burdens given the trials the Samoan and Tongan saints are experiencing.

5. I really loved Elder Osguthorpe’s quoting this from President Monson:

   “The goal of gospel teaching today … is not to ‘pour information’ into the minds of class members. It is not to show how much the teacher knows, nor is it merely to increase knowledge about the Church. The basic goal of teaching in the Church is to help bring about worthwhile changes in the lives of boys and girls, men and women. The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.”
   President Thomas S. Monson, First Counselor in the First Presidency, in Conference Report, Oct. 1970, 107.

6. Elder Bednar: Public declarations of love when private displays are absent is hipochracy.

7. After hearing President Uchtdorf, I realize how little I listen in my everyday life.

8. I predict Elder Oaks will be the next president of the church.

9. I wish conference was moved to Thanksgiving weekend.

10. Elder Holland rocked it with his sermon on the Book of Mormon. I wonder if it will be the first Mormon Message.

11. Elder Holland also taught me that maybe volume really can compensate for deficiencies in scholarship, logic and reason.

12. LOL

13. Some thoughts on two of the seventy who were released yesterday.

    Charles Didier was the seventy who created the Mesquite Nevada Stake while I was serving there on my mission.

    Lynn Mickelsen attended stake conference here a few years ago. He was a pretty good speaker.

14. Also, traditionally, any seventy who are called during a conference speak at the following conference. Since no new seventy were called this weekend, it will be interesting to see who speaks with the apostles and First Presidency in April.

15. Why do you wish conference was thanksgiving weekend? I guess that’s in October for you.

16. Then we can make a nice big weekend of it.

17. Only studied the opening remarks and Elder Scott’s remarks so far; and so far it is pretty good :-) Sister Matsumori is up for today.

    I found it interesting in the opening remarks that President Monson inferred the church has a goal to get most members, if not all, within 200 miles of a temple. That sort of dashed my hopes that I would get one closer but I guess my 90 mile drive is pretty good. I just miss my days living in Wymount when the temple was two blocks away.

18. I know the feeling. I often catch myself complaining about the 45-minute drive to the temple here. Then I have to remind myself of the 2.5-hour drive when I was in Vancouver or the 8-hour drive when I was in Regina.

19. Prior to the St. Paul temple we had to go to Chicago – and 8 hour drive.

    Now we also have Nauvoo temple at about 300 miles.

20. Love this quote “The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.”

    How true!

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