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Clement M. Matswagothata
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April 2026
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Saturday Afternoon Session
When life feels unfair and confusing, in those dark moments when you are tempted to ask, “O God, where art thou?” please remember this powerful truth: He knows you.
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Tamara W. Runia
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April 2025
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Sunday Morning Session
If you saw someone drowning, wouldn’t you reach your hand out and rescue them?
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Gerrit W. Gong
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April 2025
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Sunday Morning Session
God’s plan of moral and mortal agency allows us to learn by our own experience.
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Kristin M. Yee
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October 2024
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Saturday Evening Session
You may feel at times that it’s not possible to be redeemed, that perhaps you are an exception to God’s love and the Savior’s atoning power because of what you are struggling with or because of what you’ve done.
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Patrick Kearon
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April 2022
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Please know that the Savior has descended below all things, even what has happened to you.
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D. Todd Christofferson
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April 2022
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Sunday Morning Session
God will indeed honor His covenants and promises to each of us.
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M. Russell Ballard
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April 2021
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Fifth, our confidence in these assurances is rooted in our faith in Jesus Christ, by whose grace all things pertaining to mortality are set right.
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Ulisses Soares
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April 2021
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Sunday Morning Session
With meekness and humility of heart, He descended below all things and accepted being despised, rejected, and humiliated by men, having been wounded for our transgressions and iniquities.
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D. Todd Christofferson
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April 2020
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Whatever it may be, we cannot escape the fact that we need to understand and live the principles of the restored gospel as best we can for our invitations to be inviting.
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Walter F. González
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October 2019
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Sunday Morning Session
Because He “descended below all things,” He makes it possible for all things that have been broken in our lives to be mended, and thus we can be reconciled with God.
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Tad R. Callister
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April 2019
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Sunday Morning Session
What then is the Atonement of Jesus Christ?
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David A. Bednar
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April 2018
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The Great Redeemer, who “descended below all things” and suffered, bled, and died “to cleanse us from all unrighteousness,” tenderly washed the dusty feet of His disciples.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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October 2017
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General Priesthood Session
It means that there is a power, a strong influence, that emanates from the Savior.
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Robert D. Hales
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April 2016
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Sunday Afternoon Session
I begin by acknowledging the Light of Christ, which is given to “every man [and woman] that cometh into the world.” All of us benefit from this holy light.
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Hugo Montoya
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October 2015
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The cornerstone of God’s plan is the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Dallin H. Oaks
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October 2015
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Saturday Afternoon Session
There are millions of God-fearing people who pray to God to be lifted out of their afflictions.
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Von G. Keetch
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October 2015
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Sunday Afternoon Session
But He who “comprehend[s] all things” knows exactly where those dangers lie.
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Allen D. Haynie
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October 2015
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Sunday Afternoon Session
What does matter is that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, suffered “pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind” so “that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people.” What does matter is that He was willing to condescend, to come to this earth and descend “below all things” and suffer “more powerful contradictions than any man” ever could.
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Quentin L. Cook
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April 2013
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Saturday Afternoon Session
How do we stay close to the Savior?
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Donald L. Hallstrom
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April 2012
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Saturday Morning Session
Born of a Heavenly Father, both spiritually and physically, He possessed the omnipotence to overcome the world.
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Gerrit W. Gong
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October 2010
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Scripture describes our Savior as “the Father and the Son.” Having dwelt in flesh and subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, our Savior knows how to succor us, His people, in our pains, afflictions, temptations, sicknesses, even death.
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Donald L. Hallstrom
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April 2010
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Sunday Morning Session
His most exemplary act, the Atonement, required Jesus to descend “below all things” (D&C 88:6) and suffer “the pains of all men” (2 Nephi 9:21).
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Bruce D. Porter
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October 2007
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Saturday Afternoon Session
There is yet another dimension of a broken heart—namely, our deep gratitude for Christ’s suffering on our behalf.
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Keith B. McMullin
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October 2005
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Saturday Morning Session
Let us turn our attention to the reasons or purposes for such calamities.
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Neal A. Maxwell
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October 2003
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Jesus, who performed the “infinite atonement,” thereby suffered infinitely and is a fully comprehending Savior, having “descended below all things” and “comprehended all things” (2 Nephi 9:7; D&C 88:6).
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Neal A. Maxwell
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April 2001
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Sunday Morning Session
Uniquely, atoning Jesus also “descended below all things, in that he comprehended all things” (D&C 88:6; see also D&C 122:8).
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Neal A. Maxwell
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October 1997
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Saturday Afternoon Session
President Brigham Young spoke of what evoked the “why” from Jesus, saying that during the axis of agony which was Gethsemane and Calvary, the Father at some point withdrew both His presence and His Spirit from Jesus (see Journal of Discourses, 3:205–6).
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High confidence
Bruce D. Porter
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October 1995
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Saturday Morning Session
I testify that the Eldest Son of our Father in Heaven did redeem us from the bondage of sin.
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Jeffrey R. Holland
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October 1995
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Sunday Morning Session
When those difficult times come to us, we can remember that Jesus had to descend below all things before He could ascend above them, and that He suffered pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind that He might be filled with mercy and know how to succor His people in their infirmities (see D&C 88:6; Alma 7:11–12).
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High confidence
Ted E. Brewerton
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October 1991
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Saturday Morning Session
“The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed” (D&C 88:6–7, 11–13).
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High confidence
Neal A. Maxwell
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April 1990
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Therefore, one of the most powerful and searching questions ever asked of all of us in our sufferings hangs in time and space before us: “The Son of Man hath descended below them all.
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High confidence
David B. Haight
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October 1989
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Sunday Morning Session
Crucifixion—the horrible and painful death which He suffered—was chosen from the beginning.
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High confidence
Dallin H. Oaks
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October 1987
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Sunday Morning Session
Jesus Christ is the light of the world because he is the source of the light which “proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space” (D&C 88:12).
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High confidence
Theodore M. Burton
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April 1981
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon which you stand.” (D&C 88:6–10.)
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High confidence
N. Eldon Tanner
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October 1977
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Sunday Morning Session
“The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.” (D&C 88:6–13.)
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