August 2025 General Conference+

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General Conference Applied

S5 E48 – Thursday, September 18, 2025 | August 2025 General Conference+

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External Resources Referenced In This Episode

  1. July 2025 GC+
  2. President Packer 3-act play
  3. Elder Bednar April 2025
  4. Ultralearning book
  5. Elder David P. Homer
  6. Hymn #1037
  7. Clay’s YouTube video for President Nelson’s 101st birthday
  8. Elder Rasband April 2025 address
  9. Elder Stevenson October 2024 address
  10. Elder Renlund October 2024 address
  11. Elder Renlund firecracker story
  12. Elder Soares April 2025
  13. Wall-E
  14. Dr. Benjamin Hardy “Be Your Future Self Now”
  15. Clayton M. Christensen The Power of Everyday Missionaries
  16. June 2025 GC+ part two
  17. Jace Boyle episode
  18. Dan Sullivan
  19. The Gap and the Gain

Return and Report

Clay

  • Act on Elder Rasband’s and Elder Renlund’s messages about using our talents. Consider my talents and those I aspire to obtain. Prayerfully think about how I might use them to accomplish God’s work. Sincerely promise God that I’ll do so, make goals and plans for how I’ll do so, and then observe whether He helps me improve my abilities faster than on my own.

Mitch

  • I will follow President Eyring’s pattern. I will identify a question for which I need divine guidance. I will kneel down and ask my Heavenly Father in prayer, wait until an answer comes, and write down what He tells me to do. Throughout the process, I will make sure to focus on Jesus Christ.

What is the speaker inviting me to do, and how might I consider taking action?

President Russell M. Nelson

Social Media

  • August 10, 2025
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    • Be confident that you can approach God right now
    • Be confident Heavenly Father hears you
    • Be confident that He understands your needs better than you do
    • Be confident that He loves you more than you can comprehend
    • Be confident that He sends angels to be with you and with those you love
    • Be confident that He yearns to help you reach your highest potential
      • “When I speak of having confidence before God, I am referring to having confidence in approaching God right now! I am referring to praying with confidence that Heavenly Father hears us, that He understands our needs better than we do. I am referring to having confidence that He loves us more than we can comprehend, that He sends angels to be with us and with those we love. I am referring to having confidence that He yearns to help each of us reach our highest potential.” From “Confidence in the Presence of God, April 2025”
  • August 24, 2025
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    • We should lead the way as peacemakers and pray to be filled with charity, especially for those who are difficult to love.
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube – First, a comment on YouTube. All 15 apostles/1st Presidency now have YouTube channels. The initial videos are mostly repackaged excerpts from past talks, but are done very well with good editing, music, and additional photos and videos that complement the words in meaningful ways.
    • Excerpts from “Peacemakers Needed,” 2023. Definitely worth reviewing in this societal moment.
    • “In situations that are highly charged and filled with contention, I invite you to remember Jesus Christ. Pray to have the courage and wisdom to say or do what He would. As we follow the Prince of Peace, we will become His peacemakers. At this point you may be thinking that this message would really help someone you know. Perhaps you are hoping that it will help him or her to be nicer to you. I hope it will! But I also hope that you will look deeply into your heart to see if there are shards of pride or jealousy that prevent you from becoming a peacemaker. If you are serious about helping to gather Israel and about building relationships that will last throughout the eternities, now is the time to lay aside bitterness. Now is the time to cease insisting that it is your way or no way. Now is the time to stop doing things that make others walk on eggshells for fear of upsetting you. Now is the time to bury your weapons of war. If your verbal arsenal is filled with insults and accusations, now is the time to put them away. You will arise as a spiritually strong man or woman of Christ. The temple can help us in our quest. There we are endowed with God’s power, giving us the ability to overcome Satan, the instigator of all contention. Cast him out of your relationships!”

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President Dallin H. Oaks

Social Media

  • August 17, 2025
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    • “The Lord has promised that in the eternities no blessing will be denied His sons and daughters who keep the commandments, are true to their covenants, and desire what is right.”
      • Journal for 10 minutes on the following topic: ‘What are my desires?’
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • “Stand out. Be different from the world.”
      • Study Alma chapter 20 and make a list of things that Ammon did to “stand out” and “be different from the world.” (Verses 26 and 27 explain how Ammon’s example impacted Lamoni’s father).
    • “There are many ways to seek perfection in our mortal lives. One way is to be witnesses of Jesus Christ. President [Harold B.] Lee said this: ‘Our greatest responsibility and anxiety is to defend the divine mission of our Master, Jesus Christ.'”
      • Study Elder Neil L. Andersen’s October 2020 General Conference address “We Talk of Christ“. (“You and I speak of Jesus Christ, but maybe we can do a little better. If the world is going to speak less of Him, who is going to speak more of Him? We are! Along with other devoted Christians!”)
    • “In order to stand blameless before God at the last day, we must also serve Him with all our heart and mind.”
      • Ponder this statement from Elder Russell M. Nelson’s November 22, 1988, BYU Devotional that was entitled “Thanks for the Covenant” and then journal about how you are serving God with your mind: “Learn wisdom so that you can render significant service of worth to your fellowmen. How frustrating it would be to have desire only and little or no ability to help people. Prepare your minds and your hands so that you can qualify to serve people and bless their lives. Gain competence that others do not have. That takes work—it takes effort—but it is worth the price.”

President Henry B. Eyring

Social Media

  • August 27, 2025
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    • Begin to practice in your family what you hope to spread throughout the church and world. This will be preparation for living as faithful, eternal, covenant families forever.
      • “The family unit is not only fundamental to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life. We begin to practice in the family, the smaller unit, what will spread to the Church and to the society in which we live in this world, and what then will be what we practice in families bound together forever by covenants and faithfulness.”
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • Have faith in your temple covenants with the Lord. Through them, He can take away our fear. “Because of the temple, all will be well.”

Church Magazines

For the Strength of Youth
  • “Answers from an Apostle: What Does It Mean to Teach by the Spirit?” (Adapted from a 1996 Seminar to New Mission Leaders)
    • Do the things that will let you have experiences with the Holy Ghost throughout your entire life.
    • When you teach others the gospel, your goal should be to help them feel the spirit and want it so much that they go back again and again to be taught by the Spirit over their lifetimes.
    • “As you teach and testify, keep it simple. The Holy Ghost doesn’t need a lot of help—flowery language and even touching stories….The Holy Ghost is a testifier of truth. So if you speak the truth clearly and simply, then it is most likely that the Holy Ghost can testify to the heart of the person you are speaking to.”
    • Offer this to the children of our Heavenly Father: If they can just know the truth and obey, they may have ‘peace in this [life] and eternal life in the world to come.”
      • “When I teach, I don’t think of what I can do to feel the Spirit, nor even what others can do to feel the Spirit. My goal is for people to feel it and to want it so much that they go back again and again and are taught by the Spirit over their lifetimes. It is not just me teaching you or even just giving you a feeling that you may have the Holy Spirit for this moment, nor is it just an emotion. It is an experience with the Holy Ghost. Then I want you to do the things that would let you have that experience over a lifetime.”
      • “My goal is that you might be impelled to want to do something to be obedient, because I know that as you do, the Atonement of Jesus Christ will work in your life and you will find the mighty change occurring and you will become the person you want to be.”

President Jeffrey R. Holland

Social Media

  • August 28, 2025
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    • “I’m marking a new set of scriptures, which I do about annually.”
      • Purchase a new set of scriptures at the beginning of each year, determine a focus for your study, and then commit to that focus for the whole year.
    • “I invite you to note [Doctrine and Covenants 101:16 and 101:18] this morning as I read [these verses].”
      • Read Doctrine and Covenants 101:16 and 101:18 and journal about how the promises in those verses bring you peace.
    • “Stay on the watchtower. Be pure in heart. And be peaceful.”
  • August 31, 2025
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    • “I hope you, as young adults, will set the kind of example that if my grandchildren saw you, they would say, ‘I want to be like that.'”
      • Ask someone younger than you (for me, I would ask my children or my nieces / nephews) if they want to be like you. Then ask follow-up questions depending on their response.
    • “If you are trying to draw close to Christ and you have a relationship with your Father in Heaven and you are striving to improve every year, you can, at some point, count on revelation to guide you. Be strong. Stay with the task. Keep your head up! … [B]e better this year than last year, and next year … be better than this.”
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • “When Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery come to the Kirtland Temple, they are seeking direction from the Lord.”
      • The next time you attend the temple, have a specific question in mind for which you can seek for direction from the Lord.

Other

Press Releases
  • “President Holland Invites Young Adults to Continue Following Jesus Christ”
    • “I hope no sister or elder ever comes home from a mission and says, ‘Well, what does the Church have for me now? I’ve served a mission.’ Well, I hope I will hear you ask instead, ‘What more can I do for this Church after it has given me the greatest spiritual experience I could ever have, customized training, a powerful launch into maturity more powerful than anyone has seen since one of those incredible detonations from Cape Kennedy?'”
      • Ask Heavenly Father in prayer what more you can do for His Church. Write down the inspiration you receive, and then follow through.
    • “We have to learn everything we can for the benefit of our spouse, our children, our communities and the Church. We owe it to the great causes of life still before us that we get as much learning as we can get for as long as we can get it.”
      • Ponder this statement from Elder Russell M. Nelson’s November 22, 1988, BYU Devotional that was entitled “Thanks for the Covenant” and then journal about how you are “[getting] as much learning as [you] can get”: “Learn wisdom so that you can render significant service of worth to your fellowmen. How frustrating it would be to have desire only and little or no ability to help people. Prepare your minds and your hands so that you can qualify to serve people and bless their lives. Gain competence that others do not have. That takes work—it takes effort—but it is worth the price.”
    • Make the life and teachings of Jesus Christ your foundation to withstand the storms that will come.
      • Complete the “Jesus Christ Topical Guide” challenge that President Russell M. Nelson extended in his April 2017 General Conference address “Drawing the Power of Jesus Christ into Our Lives“: “Earlier this year, I asked the young adults of the Church to consecrate a portion of their time each week to study everything Jesus said and did as recorded in the standard works. I invited them to let the scriptural citations about Jesus Christ in the Topical Guide become their personal core curriculum.

        “I gave that challenge because I had already accepted it myself. I read and underlined every verse cited about Jesus Christ, as listed under the main heading and the 57 subtitles in the Topical Guide. When I finished that exciting exercise, my wife asked me what impact it had on me. I told her, ‘I am a different man!'”

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Social Media

  • August 24, 2025
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    • “Now, perhaps some may feel that their relationship with their child is less than ideal. That’s where the Savior’s power comes in. You and I can trust Him and rely on Him as a Healer in every regard possible. He heals the sick, and He heals relationships. He multiplies bread and fish, and He can multiply the love and the joy in our homes.”
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube (from a worldwide devotional for young adults, “The Dots Will Connect,” February 2, 2025
    • “Until the full picture is revealed, don’t get overwhelmed by the large, difficult task of life. Remember that big things are made up of small things. If you commit to doing the small and simple things God asks you to do, and you do them as diligently as you can, big things will follow, I guarantee.”
    • “God has prepared eternal blessings beyond your imagination. To help you receive them, He gave you commandments, sacred covenants, inspired prophetic counsel, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and moral agency. This is more than enough to lead you to mortal happiness and eternal joy. Beyond that, don’t despair if you make some decisions that are less than perfect. That’s how we learn. That’s part of the adventure.”
    • “Your life will have ups and downs. But if you are faithful to Jesus Christ, see His atoning sacrifice as a gift, a gift of love and repentance as the right way to accept it, you can be assured of happy endings. You may not see it until much later, but you will look back and know that the Lord never abandoned you, even when He let you make a lot of decisions for yourself.”
    • “The dots that make up our experiences in life can appear unconnected and chaotic at times. We cannot see any order to them. We can’t imagine that they have a purpose at all. However, when you look at your life from the eternal perspective of the gospel of Jesus Christ, you begin to see how the dots connect to the grand design. And as you strive to trust God and follow His Son, even Jesus Christ, one day you will see the finished product and you will know that the Master Artist had a plan for those random dots all along. You will see that He was preparing you for opportunities and possibilities far more glorious than you ever could have imagined or accomplished on your own.” 

Elder David A. Bednar

Social Media

  • August 31, 2025

Elder Quentin L. Cook

Social Media

  • August 3, 2025
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    • “When we inevitably face challenges and setbacks, we can find comfort in knowing we do not need to face life’s adversities alone. Our Heavenly Father, ‘the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,’ will bless us, lift us, and strengthen us ‘in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God” (2 Corinthians 1:3–4).'”
  • August 17, 2025
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    • “We are seeing amazing things happen across the world. The number of missions and missionaries is increasing. The number of convert baptisms is increasing. The number of temples is increasing. While the growth of the Church is both impressive and important, we must not forget how essential ‘the still small voice’ is in guiding us to the elect and to the decisions we make in our lives; it’s the Lord’s hand that does this. We have to be willing to open our mouths. We have to be making every effort we can. But it is the Lord’s work. It is the Lord who hastens His work. He guides His Church.”
  • August 20, 2025
  • August 22, 2025
  • August 25, 2025
  • August 29, 2025
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • “Our goals in this life need to be directed toward living righteous and gospel lives and striving to have families.” With sensitivity to those who haven’t yet had an opportunity to create their own families, the rest of us must stop making other things more important than family. Quit postponing marriage and having children until you reach some arbitrary financial or worldly status.
    • Mosiah 2:41 teaches us that by living the commandments, no blessings will be withheld in the eternities. In the gospel, it doesn’t matter where we’re born, or who our parents are, or what educational opportunities we have – we want to have as many as we can – but the gospel of Jesus Christ is for everybody.
    • Have a sense of the atonement. Live on the covenant path. Strive to achieve the Lord’s purposes here on Earth. Have goals for yourself and goals to help your families and others for whom you’re responsible to achieve all that they can. Lift them. Bless them. Help them. By doing these things, you’ll have inner peace.

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For the Strength of Youth
  • “Your Search for Truth”
    • “The internet and handheld devices provide access to almost endless information that you can find almost immediately. The Lord is pleased when you make wise use of these resources, but in your search for truth remember to look to God, who knows all things (see Doctrine and Covenants 88:41). From Him, you can find eternal truth, which is knowledge of “things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come” (Doctrine and Covenants 93:24).
    • Understand and embrace the eternal truth that God is your Heavenly Father and that He knows and loves you perfectly.
      • “Among the truths God has given you, one of the most important is that He is your Heavenly Father. He knows and loves you perfectly. Understanding and embracing this eternal truth gave you direction and blessings in your pre-earth life and will continue to do so now and forever.”
    • Follow the Savior’s example and obey His commandments. He will lead and guide you to the glorious presence of our Father in Heaven.
Insights from the Apostles
  • “Thus Saith the Still Small Voice”
    • With the increase in missionaries and baptisms, we need to have an attitude of gratefulness and do our very best to be a person in the Lord’s hands and accomplish what He wants.
Liahona

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Press Releases

Elder D. Todd Christofferson

Social Media

  • August 12, 2025
    • Facebook
    • “We simply need to be diligent with the gifts, abilities, and opportunities we have. … If we just do what we can, the Lord will magnify and reward our efforts and in due course we will receive the fulness of His blessings.”
      • Study Elder Dale G. Renlund’s April 2025 General Conference address “Personal Preparation to Meet the Savior“. In particular, focus on paragraphs 17-21 where Elder Renlund focused on the Savior’s parable of the talents.
  • August 12, 2025
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • “Remember what the Lord said in the Sermon on the Mount: ‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.’ … So for me, it’s a matter of keeping the first priority first. Keeping that most important in your life and doing whatever it takes to put that as the first priority. And that would include certainly prayer, consistent and frequent prayer. And studying the scriptures. Serving in the kingdom of God on the earth.”
      • Organize your priorities. If, for example, you look at social media first thing in the morning, set a goal not to look at social media until you’ve prayed and read your scriptures. You might also consider setting an accountability contract (as discussed in James Clear’s book “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones“) to be held accountable for developing these “first priority” habits.
    • “I find in my own life that it’s important to pray about your day. I begin my day praying about what I know is coming. I pray about what I am anticipating. And I pray for each event, each meeting, each thing that I know is coming, and ask for the Lord’s help, guidance, and that I can represent Him honorably and in the best way.”
      • Test this process. One day this week, don’t have a plan for the day. Then, the next day, follow Elder Christofferson’s process. At the end of this two day test, journal about your experience.

Elder Neil L. Andersen

Social Media

  • August 17, 2025
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    • Prepare for the second coming of the Lord by being in His temple. Have faith in Him and do your very best. “He will lift you from your burdens, your difficulties, and your weaknesses and prepare you for His return and the eternal life that awaits you.”
      • “In the house of the Lord, we prepare ourselves for the coming of our Savior Jesus Christ. Today, the Farmington New Mexico Temple was dedicated for this purpose. The sacred house of the Lord testifies more than any other place of the immortality of the soul and that life continues beyond the veil. The Lord continually reminds us that this earth is not our permanent home. As the world slides down a slippery slope, the Lord’s kingdom strengthens on every continent, in every nation, in every family and individual who is willing to believe in Jesus Christ and take upon himself or herself the covenants of His holy ordinances. This is my promise to you: As you have faith in Him and do your very best, He will lift you from your burdens, your difficulties, and your weaknesses and prepare you for His return and the eternal life that awaits you. Jesus Christ is preparing to come and we are preparing to receive Him. In His holy house, we will make ourselves ready.”
  • August 23, 2025
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • We talk about the benefits of learning how to live the gospel by reading church leader biographies. This short video is a great sample from the childhoods of Presidents Nelson, Oaks, and Eyring.
    • “If you’ll strengthen your faith and trust in the Savior and Father in Heaven, it will be your greatest blessing in overcoming the challenges you face, just like it has been for the 1st Presidency. Develop your faith; pursue it. Doubt not, fear not. Look unto Him in every thought and you’ll have happiness in your life, no matter the difficulties, the challenges, the obstacles, and the distractions.”

Other

Press Releases
  • “Elder Neil L. Andersen Dedicates the Farmington New Mexico Temple”
    • Consecrate your life to Jesus Christ by attending His house.
      • “We all know that evil is increasing in the world around us. Spiritual dangers can pull us from our spiritual moorings. Yet, “amid this world in commotion, the Lord has said that He will prepare a righteous people.” Those who consecrate their lives to Him by attending His house “will receive the blessings and the power to become the person you desire to become.”
Temple Dedicatory Prayers
  • Farmington New Mexico Temple
    • Recognize the incomparable value of each individual, seeing through things like cultural identity, personal prosperity, or worldly notoriety.
      • “Let this, Thy house, be a sanctuary of peace, a refuge from the distractions of the world. We pray that here in this holy temple the incomparable value of each individual, each son or daughter of God, will be counted greater than all the treasures of the world, allowing the goodness of each disciple to shine in splendor beyond any consideration of cultural identity, personal prosperity, or worldly notoriety. Bless especially the youth who come to worship here that they may grow the spiritual gifts within them. Let this temple be a place of revelation that all might more fully “know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Let this holy house be a place of preparation for the marvelous hour when Thy Son returns in majesty and power.”
    • Be true and faithful throughout our mortal lives that, through the grace of Jesus Christ, we might return home to God, clean and pure.
      • “We plead that Thou wilt bless us to be true and faithful throughout our mortal lives that, through the grace of Thy Son, we might return home to Thee, clean and pure.”

Elder Ronald A. Rasband

Social Media

  • August 3, 2025
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • “We are hastening our holiness as we live temple-worthy.”
    • “Jesus Christ is the answer. Start with Him. Whatever is on your to-do list, give equal time, not spare time, to the Lord in personal scripture study, family study of ‘Come, Follow Me’, prayer, church callings, ministering, partaking of the sacrament, worshipping in the temple, and pondering the things of God.”
    • “I pray that we will not miss the majesty of this moment. The Lord is hastening His work. May we, as His disciples of our day, prepare for the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”

Elder Gary E. Stevenson

Social Media

  • August 6, 2025
  • August 6, 2025
  • August 31, 2025
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    • The next decade holds many exciting events like bicentennial celebrations of the church’s founding and the Winter Olympics returning to Utah. Whether in Utah or elsewhere, we have opportunities and obligations to be disciples of Christ in an unprecedented way. The Lord will bless us with experiences “never to be forgotten.”
  • August 31, 2025

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Elder Dale G. Renlund

Social Media

  • August 31, 2025
    • Facebook | Instagram | X
    • “I invite you to commit yourself more fully to the Savior, His gospel, and His Church. As you do so, you’ll find that the combination of the Savior’s gospel and His Church brings power into your life.”
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • Same as the invitation in the social media post above.

Elder Gerrit W. Gong

Social Media

  • August 3, 2025
    • Facebook | Instagram | X
    • “Our Articles of Faith remind us, ‘We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may’ (Articles of Faith 1:11). The fatherhood of God makes us brothers and sisters. We are each better when we love, mutually respect, and learn from each other.”
  • August 10, 2025
    • Facebook | Instagram | X
    • “This world tells us we are too tall, too short, too wide, too narrow—not smart, pretty, or spiritual enough. Through spiritual transformation in Jesus Christ, we can escape debilitating perfectionism.”
  • August 20, 2025
    • Facebook | Instagram | X
    • “No matter what else you hear today, I hope you will hear that, in His time and way, every glorious blessing in the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is meant personally for you.”
    • Understand that AI is a tool. We shouldn’t be fearful of it. We can use it assist us to grow, but don’t become lazy. We only grow when we do the work.
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • Powerful interview with a man dying of ALS, using AI to allow him to still speak in his own voice though his body no longer can. The man, Brad, shares a moving testimony worth watching.

Church School Devotionals

BYU – Provo

Other

Press Releases
  • “Elder Gong Puts AI in a Gospel Context”
    • “Artificial intelligence is not God and cannot be God. We can consciously choose and intentionally use AI as a tool for good [and] … we can invite leaders and citizens across industry, research, civic and government bodies, and faith leaders to align rapid AI developments and enduring faith-based principles and moral values.”
    • “Artificial intelligence cannot replace revelation or generate truth from God. We have responsibility to ensure the Holy Ghost can attest to the truth and authenticity of all we say and share, in our form and in our content.”
    • “As Church members we will not grow spiritually if we let artificial intelligence write our sacrament [meeting] talks or do our seminary homework. AI cannot replace our individual effort and spiritual preparation as we prepare lessons, prayers or blessings.”
    • “There may be a spiritual distinction between our lived past and our living past. Our lived past encompasses the lived facts of our intents, decisions and actions. Our living past reflects the possibility of redemptive changes to our past. Please remember, Jesus Christ and His Atonement can cleanse, sanctify and transform the effects of our intents, decisions and actions. Through our faith unto repentance and our Savior’s Atonement, God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ can bless us and those we love with all the divine goodness, change and forgiveness we are willing to receive.”

Elder Ulisses Soares

Social Media

  • August 4, 2025
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    • “Remembering sacred moments and recognizing the sacrifices so many made to preserve the restored gospel of Jesus Christ makes our hearts soar.”
  • August 17, 2025
    • Facebook | Instagram | X
    • Psalm 55:22 – “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • “[J]ust as the [lighthouse] is illuminating the way for the boats, [Elder Soares’ missionaries] could illuminate the way of people to Jesus Christ—as they would extend the invitation to them to come unto Him, to change their lives, and receive all the blessings and promises that God and Jesus Christ have for them.”

Elder Patrick Kearon

Social Media

  • August 3, 2025
    • Facebook
    • “To become as a little child is to let the complexity go and see the world perhaps as our Savior sees it—full of beauty and hope. In times when life feels overwhelming or clouded by doubt, the Savior calls us back to childlike faith and a hopefulness for the future.”
  • August 31, 2025
    • YouTube
    • Compared an empty basketball arena to the world before the restoration of the gospel, an awkward, empty, feeling as though it’s waiting for something. We all have interference and noise we need to “cancel out,” such as believing you don’t belong.
    • “The light of Christ is in all of us…. For those of you who may have lost some of this light, I pray that you’ll find it again. I pray that you’ll come to a better understanding of repentance – turning around, trying again, finding a new beginning.”
    • “You and I are here to guide our friends toward the light.”
    • “I pray that you will find this light, this joy, this peace, perhaps for the first time. If the light has slipped away from you a little (or more than that), I pray that you’ll rediscover it. I pray that you’ll live in a way that will help you feel it and be blessed by it. I pray that if you have it brightly with you now that you find wonderful, comfortable ways to share it.”

Church School Devotionals

BYU – Pathway Worldwide

Applications

Clay

Mitch

  • Test Elder Christofferson’s process. One day this week, don’t have a plan for the day. Then, the next day, follow Elder Christofferson’s process. At the end of this two day test, I will journal about my experience.

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