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Conference Counsel: Being obedient even when we may not want to

Following commandments can be hard. Not just in a practical way because certain commandments are inherently difficult to follow, but also because, frankly, it can be hard to always want to follow the commandments. I can think of circumstances in my life when, at the time, certain ...

Conference Counsel: A reemphasis on commandment to avoid contention

I recently came across a YouTube channel that is dedicated to promoting conversations on contentious topics between those with opposing viewpoints. Many of the conversations that I saw were political in nature. One can imagine how these conversations so often went. There was yelling, ...

Conference Counsel: What having a hope of eternal life does to bless us

The word “hope” is defined as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” Depending on what we have hope in, our hope (the expectation for it) can either be strong or weak. If we see a lot of evidence that something will happen, we have a strong hope for it. ...

Conference Counsel: An important reminder of who Jesus Christ really was

There can never be too many reminders of who Jesus really was and what he really stood for. President Jeffrey R. Holland, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, centered his talk at the church’s general conference earlier ...

Conference Counsel: A lesson from the Book of Mormon on pride

President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, titled his talk at the October 2017 general conference of the church with a penetrating question: "The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?" “My dear brothers and sisters, I ...

Conference Counsel: The time to prepare for Christ’s return is now

One of the more interesting debate topics among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is that of the timing of the second coming of Jesus Christ. Some members believe that it’s still many years away — perhaps even decades — because of prophecies that, according to ...