Highlights from General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
LDS conference highlights: President Russell Nelson touts ‘priesthood keys,’ Dallin Oaks says wear garments ‘continuously’
General authority Seventy Edward Dube, a native of Zimbabwe, has become the first Black Latter-day Saint to be named to the Presidency of the Seventy. Without them, Nelson continued, the church would represent a “significant teaching and humanitarian organization, but not much more.” Covenants are essential to many organizations such as the military, firefighters and religious traditions, and clothing symbolizing those commitments is not “magic,” Oaks said, “just a needed reminder of the special responsibilities the wearers have assumed.”It “reminds endowed members of the sacred covenants they have made and the blessings they have been promised in the holy temple,” Oaks said.
Underclothing, known as garments, worn by faithful men and women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are shown in these authorized photos. The purpose of mortality, the British church leader said, is to “have the stretching and refining experiences of mortality, the chance to use our God-given moral agency to choose him, to learn and grow, to make mistakes, to repent, to love God and our neighbor, and to one day return home to him.”
Apostle Patrick Kearon and his wife, Jennifer, look over the audience at General Conference on Sunday, April 7, 2024. Believers become “vulnerable when we slow down” in following spiritual principles, apostle Dale G. Renlund said, “and especially when we stop.” In addition, comparing “ourselves to others can lead us to make pernicious errors, especially if we conclude that we are more righteous than those who are struggling,” the church leader said. “After all, we are all struggling in our own way. None of us earns salvation. We never can. … We do need all our compassion, empathy and love as we interact with those around us.” Apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf speaks at General Conference on Saturday, April 6, 2024.
Uchtdorf said he did not want to “diminish or trivialize mental health issues. If you face such challenges, I mourn with and stand beside you. For some people, finding joy may include seeking help from trained mental health professionals. … We should be thankful for such help.” Uchtdorf promised members that they would “feel a greater measure of God’s unsurpassable love swelling within your heart … and that will begin to taste the unspeakable glories and wonders of the unseen, perfect, heavenly sphere.”You will feel “your spirit lifting away from the gravity of this world,” he told them. “And like good Milton Wright, perhaps you will raise your voice in rejoicing and shout, ‘Higher, Father, higher.’” In a tender moment, apostle Dieter F.
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