Confidence filter
  1. The Man Who Communed with Jehovah

    Kyle S. McKay October 2024 Saturday Evening Session

    Open paragraph (Almost 13)

    Almost 13 years after that, Joseph and Oliver Cowdery knelt in solemn, silent prayer in the newly dedicated Kirtland Temple.

    Alludes to High confidence
  2. Why Are We Members of the Only True Church?

    Enrique R. Falabella October 2007 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (all 13)

    Why are we members of the only true Church?

    Alludes to High confidence
  3. The Temple Is about Families

    Richard H. Winkel October 2006 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (all 13)

    When my wife and I were young parents with little children at home, we challenged our children to memorize the Articles of Faith.

    Alludes to High confidence
  4. And That’s the Way It Is

    H. David Burton April 2003 Priesthood Session

    Open paragraph (along 13)

    As a youth I would tune out my mother’s repetitive reminder: “David, remember who you are.” The reminder always brought some interesting comments from my friends.

    Alludes to High confidence
  5. At All Times, in All Things, and in All Places

    Elaine S. Dalton April 2008 General Young Women Meeting

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    You are a part of that wondrous plan that was presented in the premortal realms.

    Alludes to High confidence
  6. A Pattern for All

    Merrill J. Bateman October 2005 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    The Father’s plan of life, with its central focus on Christ’s Atonement, was prepared before the foundation of the world (see Abraham 3:22–28; Alma 13:3).

    Alludes to High confidence
  7. Create or Continue Priesthood Links

    Keith K. Hilbig October 2001 Priesthood Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    Our privilege to bear the priesthood of God tonight has its beginnings in our premortal existence.

    Alludes to High confidence
  8. Sustaining a New Prophet

    David B. Haight April 1995 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    “And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of their exceeding faith and good works; … therefore they having chosen good, and exercising exceedingly great faith, are called with a holy calling” (Alma 13:3).

    Alludes to High confidence
  9. Decisions

    Gerald E. Melchin April 1994 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    We approached a grove of uncertainty as we awaited our call to this earth.

    Alludes to High confidence
  10. Addiction or Freedom

    Russell M. Nelson October 1988 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was.

    Alludes to High confidence
  11. “Called and Prepared from the Foundation of the World”

    Neal A. Maxwell April 1986 Priesthood Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    What if in tomorrow’s newspapers and on television scholars excitedly announced that dozens of pages of startling and significant writings, including those of Enoch, Abraham, and Moses, had been found?

    Alludes to High confidence
  12. Premortality, a Glorious Reality

    Neal A. Maxwell October 1985 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    So far as we know, brothers and sisters, the restoration of this responsive doctrine began with the translation by Joseph Smith of a few verses in the Book of Alma, late 1829 or early 1830.

    Alludes to High confidence
  13. Motherhood and the Family

    Mary F. Foulger October 1980 General Relief Society Meeting

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    My dear sisters, I believe that you, like our priesthood brethren, have been “called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of … exceeding faith and good works, … having chosen good.” Therefore you are “called with a holy calling.” (Alma 13:3.)

    Alludes to High confidence
  14. Covenants and Blessings

    William H. Bennett October 1975 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    “And thus they have been called to this holy calling on account of their faith.” (Alma 13:3–4.)

    Alludes to High confidence
  15. “Blessed Are the Peacemakers”

    Theodore M. Burton October 1974 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    This tells me that approximately 2,500 years before there were any children of Israel, God had divided Adam’s sons into families to reflect the coming destiny of those same children of Israel.

    Alludes to High confidence
  16. God Foreordains His Prophets and His People

    Bruce R. McConkie April 1974 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (Alma 13:3)

    All those who receive the Melchizedek Priesthood in this life were, as Alma teaches, “called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God,” because they were among the noble and great in that premortal sphere.

    Alludes to High confidence