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Steven C. Barlow
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October 2025
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Saturday Evening Session
“Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?
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Jonathan S. Schmitt
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October 2022
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Sunday Afternoon Session
First, Jesus is the Good Shepherd.
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M. Russell Ballard
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October 2021
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Saturday Evening Session
As they dragged the net to shore, full of fish, Jesus said, “Come and dine.” John reports that “when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?”
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Sharon Eubank
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October 2021
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Saturday Evening Session
Let me conclude by repeating the question Jesus asked His Apostle Simon Peter: “Do you love me?” The essence of the gospel is contained in how we answer that question for ourselves and “feed [His] sheep.” With great reverence and love for Jesus Christ, our Master, I invite each of us to be a part of His magnificent ministry, and I pray He’ll use us.
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Gerrit W. Gong
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April 2019
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Third, as the “Shepherd of Israel,” Jesus Christ exemplifies how shepherds in Israel minister in love.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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October 2018
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Saturday Afternoon Session
One of the names considered was shepherding, a fitting reference to Christ’s invitation: “Feed my sheep.” However, it had at least one complication: using that term would make me a German shepherd.
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Bonnie H. Cordon
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October 2018
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Sunday Morning Session
When asked this question both a second and a third time, “Lovest thou me?” Peter was grieved yet confirmed his love: “Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee.
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Jeffrey R. Holland
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October 2012
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Sunday Morning Session
After a joyful reunion with the resurrected Jesus, Peter had an exchange with the Savior that I consider the crucial turning point of the apostolic ministry generally and certainly for Peter personally, moving this great rock of a man to a majestic life of devoted service and leadership.
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Robert D. Hales
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October 2012
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Sunday Afternoon Session
As the brethren returned to the shore, they discovered a feast of fish and bread.
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Walter F. González
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April 2011
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Saturday Morning Session
Truly loving Christ provides the required strength to follow Him.
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Margaret S. Lifferth
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April 2009
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Saturday Morning Session
The last chapter of John tells of an especially tender exchange between Peter and the resurrected Christ.
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Silvia H. Allred
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October 2007
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General Relief Society Meeting
Consider the principle taught in John 21:15–17.
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Robert J. Whetten
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April 2005
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Conversion means consecrating your life to caring for and serving others who need your help and sharing your gifts and blessings.
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M. Russell Ballard
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April 2003
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Saturday Afternoon Session
A more intimate version of the same message is recorded in the Gospel of John.
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David B. Haight
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April 2000
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Then He said, “Feed my lambs.” Then He asked Peter the second time and the third time, then directed, “Feed my sheep.
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Ben B. Banks
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October 1999
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Saturday Morning Session
The Good Shepherd willingly gave His life for His sheep, for you and me—yes, for all of us, that we might live eternally with our Father in Heaven.
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James E. Faust
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April 1999
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Saturday Morning Session
As we approach the beginning of the third thousand years since the Savior’s birth, how should the 10 million of us who have been baptized in His name carry on His work?
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David B. Haight
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April 1999
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Sunday Morning Session
The Savior was there.
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Jeffrey R. Holland
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April 1998
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Among the last words the Savior said to His disciples and among the first words He says to us today are: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.
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Henry B. Eyring
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October 1997
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs”
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Robert D. Hales
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April 1997
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Sunday Afternoon Session
After the Crucifixion, Peter went fishing with the disciples.
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Helvécio Martins
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April 1995
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Priesthood Session
to heaven, Jesus asked Simon Peter: “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my
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James E. Faust
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April 1995
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Priesthood Session
“He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
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Richard P. Lindsay
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April 1994
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Priesthood Session
His life literally fulfilled the instruction of the Savior to Peter on the shores of the Sea of Tiberias in his final admonition to the Apostles: “Feed my lambs.
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David B. Haight
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April 1994
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Sunday Afternoon Session
And the Savior replied yet again, “Feed my sheep” (see John 21:15–17).
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 1989
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Saturday Afternoon Session
The Good Shepherd said, “Feed my lambs.” (John 21:15.) So a woman feeds her loved ones, providing succor and sustenance just as the Savior would do.
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Jayne B. Malan
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October 1989
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Sunday Afternoon Session
After a long moment he said, “Jayne, once a long, long time ago, someone else said almost those same words.
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Joanne B. Doxey
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October 1987
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General Women’s Meeting
Simon Peter: “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs”
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Boyd K. Packer
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April 1984
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Priesthood Session
Young brethren, I can hear the voice of the Lord saying to each of us just as He said to Peter, “Feed my lambs.
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Dwan J. Young
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October 1983
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General Women’s Meeting
We learn and grow ourselves; we teach and prepare our children; but an additional responsibility given to all of us is that of feeding the sheep.
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Ezra Taft Benson
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April 1983
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Priesthood Session
Later, after His resurrection, Jesus directed Peter to “feed my lambs.
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David B. Haight
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April 1982
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Sunday Afternoon Session
And the Savior replied yet again, “Feed my sheep.” (See John 21:15–17.)
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Spencer W. Kimball
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April 1981
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Priesthood Session
Please take a particular interest in strengthening and improving the quality of teaching in the Church.
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Spencer W. Kimball
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October 1980
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Priesthood Session
Stake presidents, bishops, and branch presidents, please take a particular interest in improving the quality of teaching in the Church.
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Thomas S. Monson
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April 1980
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Saturday Morning Session
Can you think of a more firm foundation, a more basic philosophy to guide a boy, than the Articles of Faith?
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David B. Haight
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April 1979
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Sunday Morning Session
Jesus said unto him, “Feed my sheep.” (See John 21:15–17.)
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Spencer W. Kimball
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April 1979
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
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L. Tom Perry
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October 1974
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Friday Morning Session
“Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.”
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David B. Haight
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April 1971
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Priesthood Session
It has been said that teaching is one of the noblest professions.
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