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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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David A. Bednar
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April 2022
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Saturday Morning Session
As I sing “Let Us All Press On,” I often think of the people in Lehi’s vision pressing forward on the path that led to the tree of life who were not merely “clinging to” but were “continually holding fast to the rod of iron, until they came forth and fell down and partook of the fruit of the tree.” Lehi described multitudes in the great and spacious building that were pointing “the finger of scorn at [him] and those … partaking of the fruit.” His response to the jeers and insults is magnifice...
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Neil L. Andersen
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October 2019
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Sunday Afternoon Session
President Nelson explained, “The adversary is quadrupling his efforts to disrupt testimonies and impede the work of the Lord.” Let us remember Lehi’s words: “We heeded them not.”
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Gary B. Sabin
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April 2017
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Saturday Afternoon Session
It is hard to measure the impact for good each individual can have by standing up inside.
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W. Christopher Waddell
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April 2016
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Sunday Morning Session
In verse 33 we read of others who had a different response to the scoffing and mocking coming from the building.
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Marcus B. Nash
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October 2012
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The Lord commands us to take “the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” Satan will use such things as doubt, fear, or sin to tempt us to let go of faith and lose the protection it offers.
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Neil L. Andersen
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October 2010
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Nephi declared plainly, “We heeded them not.”
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W. Craig Zwick
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April 2008
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Sunday Afternoon Session
great was the multitude that did enter into that strange building. They did point the finger of scorn at me and those that were partaking of the fruit also; but we heeded them not.”
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Dennis B. Neuenschwander
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April 2008
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Sunday Afternoon Session
One of the most well-known crowds in the Book of Mormon is the one that occupies the great and spacious building in Lehi’s vision of the tree of life.
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Neal A. Maxwell
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April 2001
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Sunday Morning Session
What are a few fingers of scorn now anyway, when the faithful can eventually know what it is like to be “clasped in the arms of Jesus”?
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Neal A. Maxwell
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October 1993
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Saturday Morning Session
He whose name this church bears has promised that He will be in our midst (see D&C 6:32), lead us along (see D&C 78:18), go before us (see D&C 49:27; 84:88), and even fight our battles (see D&C 98:37).
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Ezra Taft Benson
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April 1989
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Saturday Morning Session
Pride affects all of us at various times and in various degrees.
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Ezra Taft Benson
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April 1986
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Saturday Morning Session
The great and spacious building which Lehi saw was the pride of the world where the multitude of the earth was gathered.
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