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David A. Bednar
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October 2025
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The earth was created as a place whereon Heavenly Father’s children could be proved to see if they would “do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.” A primary purpose of the Creation and of our mortal existence is to provide us the opportunity to act and become what the Lord invites us to become.
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Aroldo B. Cavalcante
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October 2024
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Whether we are well-known or forgotten, trials will inevitably come to each one of us.
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Takashi Wada
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October 2024
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Sunday Afternoon Session
We lived with Him as spirits before we came to this earth.
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Brian K. Taylor
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April 2024
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Sunday Morning Session
Life’s trials prove us.
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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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Michelle D. Craig
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October 2022
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Saturday Evening Session
When your faith, your family, or your future are challenged—when you wonder why life is so hard when you are doing your best to live the gospel—remember that the Lord told us to expect troubles.
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Adeyinka A. Ojediran
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April 2022
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Dear brothers and sisters, each of us is a prince or princess.
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David A. Bednar
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October 2020
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Saturday Morning Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Henry B. Eyring
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October 2020
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“And they who keep their first estate shall 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 and ever.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2019
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Sunday Afternoon Session
One purpose of God’s plan for this mortal experience is to “prove” us “to see if [we] will do all things whatsoever the Lord [our] God shall command [us]” (Abraham 3:25).
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Neil L. Andersen
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October 2018
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Sunday Morning Session
We each understand that difficulties are part of life, but when they come to us personally, they can take our breath away.
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Henry B. Eyring
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October 2018
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Stanley G. Ellis
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October 2017
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Hard is part of the gospel plan.
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Ulisses Soares
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April 2017
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Saturday Morning Session
Mortal life is a period of testing where we will be proven to see if we will do all things that the Lord our God shall command us.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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April 2016
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Sunday Afternoon Session
The purpose of mortal life for the children of God is to provide the experiences needed “to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life.” As President Thomas S.
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Koichi Aoyagi
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October 2015
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Sunday Afternoon Session
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Thomas S. Monson
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October 2014
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Sunday Morning Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Richard G. Scott
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October 2014
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Sunday Afternoon Session
We were taught in the premortal world that our purpose in coming here is to be tested, tried, and stretched.
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Thomas S. Monson
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April 2013
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Sunday Morning Session
“We will prove them herewith,” said the Lord, “to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Daniel L. Johnson
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October 2012
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 2011
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Through the ages, God has made covenants with His children.
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Russell M. Nelson
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April 2011
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Teach of faith in God’s plan of salvation.
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Paul V. Johnson
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April 2011
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Sunday Morning Session
Earth life includes tests, trials, and tribulations, and some of the trials we face in life can be excruciating.
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 2010
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Sunday Morning Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Ann M. Dibb
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October 2009
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Sunday Morning Session
We may feel as though we are holding on to what may seem to be a one-inch lip of steel girder.
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Steven E. Snow
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April 2009
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Sunday Morning Session
time “to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them”
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Quentin L. Cook
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October 2008
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Elaine S. Dalton
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April 2008
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General Young Women Meeting
Being steadfast and immovable means being obedient.
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Henry B. Eyring
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April 2007
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Elaine S. Dalton
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October 2006
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Saturday Afternoon Session
To become worthy, we make choices that will enable us to return to our Heavenly Father’s presence.
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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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Wolfgang H. Paul
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April 2006
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Adhemar Damiani
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April 2005
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“We will prove them herewith,” He said, “to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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James E. Faust
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October 2004
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Saturday Morning Session
“We will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Henry B. Eyring
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April 2004
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Saturday Morning Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Julie B. Beck
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April 2004
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Sunday Morning Session
Oh, that every girl and woman would have a testimony of her potential for eternal motherhood as she keeps her earthly covenants.
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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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Sharon G. Larsen
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October 1999
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Saturday Morning Session
The Lord told Abraham that He sent us to earth to see if we would do what He asked us to do (see Abr.
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Adhemar Damiani
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October 1999
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Each moment we must choose whom we will serve, for we have been placed upon this earth to be proven and tested.
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 1998
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Sunday Afternoon Session
A perfect body is not required to achieve a divine destiny.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
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April 1998
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Saturday Morning Session
“We will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Richard G. Scott
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April 1996
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Saturday Afternoon Session
You are here on earth for a divine purpose.
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M. Russell Ballard
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April 1995
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Saturday Afternoon Session
We must understand the basic doctrines and receive the saving ordinances that are essential for our eternal exaltation and happiness.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
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October 1994
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Sunday Afternoon Session
He also offered his mortal life, was crucified, and became the first to be resurrected, making possible the literal resurrection of all of our Father’s children.
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Boyd K. Packer
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October 1993
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Saturday Afternoon Session
estate ‘to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.’
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Neal A. Maxwell
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April 1990
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Saturday Afternoon Session
First, because God has repeatedly said He would structure mortality to be a proving and testing experience (see Abr.
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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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Joanne B. Doxey
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October 1989
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General Women’s Meeting
In our premortal existence we were taught the plan of salvation.
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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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Ezra Taft Benson
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April 1988
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Saturday Morning Session
“We will prove them herewith,” said the Lord, “to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Barbara W. Winder
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October 1987
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General Women’s Meeting
“prove [us] herewith, to see if [we] will do all things whatsoever the Lord [our] God shall command
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William Grant Bangerter
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April 1987
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Saturday Morning Session
“And we will prove them herewith,” said the Lord, “to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Barbara W. Winder
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October 1986
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General Women’s Meeting
“We will prove them herewith, to see if they [you and I] will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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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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Neal A. Maxwell
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April 1983
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Saturday Morning Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Elaine Cannon
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April 1982
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General Women’s Meeting
It is our understanding that in the world before this one we all heard the plan of life presented by the gods.
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Franklin D. Richards
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April 1981
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Sunday Morning Session
The restored gospel explains that we existed as spirit entities before being born into this sphere of activity—yes, spirit children of our Father in Heaven.
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Robert E. Wells
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October 1978
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command
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Delbert L. Stapley
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October 1977
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“And they who keep their first estate shall 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 and ever.” (Abr.
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Ezra Taft Benson
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October 1977
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Your Father in heaven is mindful of you.
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Joseph Anderson
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October 1976
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Sunday Morning Session
“And they who keep their first estate shall 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 [this estate] shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.” (Abr.
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Hartman Rector, Jr.
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October 1975
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Friday Morning Session
Certainly we are witnessing this kind of folly today.
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Spencer W. Kimball
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April 1975
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Friday Morning Session
world, “to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
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April 1974
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Friday Morning Session
estate ‘to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.’
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N. Eldon Tanner
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October 1971
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Sunday Morning Session
“And they who keep their first estate shall 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 and ever.” (Abr.
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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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