"My Love for the Savior Is My 'Why'" - General Conference Applied

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General Conference Applied

S5 E30 – Sunday, July 20, 2025 | “My Love for the Savior Is My ‘Why’” by Elder Ricardo P. Giménez; April 2025 General Conference

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Introduction

As we begin this podcast episode, if you have not recently listened to or read Elder Giménez’s April 2025 General Conference address, please pause this podcast episode and go review his address.

Bio

“Elder Ricardo P. Giménez was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 2019. At the time of his call, he had been serving as a counselor in a stake presidency. Since being called as a General Authority, he has served as an assistant to the North America West Area presidency and as president of the California San Diego Mission. Elder Giménez currently serves at Church headquarters in the Priesthood and Family Department and as a Counselor in the North America Central Area presidency.

“Elder Giménez has served in several Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Chile Concepción Mission, high councilor, counselor in a ward Young Men presidency, counselor in a bishopric, bishop, stake president, mission president, and Area Seventy in the Chile and South America South Areas.

“Elder Giménez received an undergraduate degree in accounting and auditing from the University of Santiago, Chile in 1997. In 2003 he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chile. He began his career working in the mining industry in 1999. He then worked in the information technology industry as a finance director for Computer Sciences Corporation in Latin America. In 2012 he returned to the mining industry as part of the finance operations team for Sierra Gorda Mining. At the time of his call as a General Authority, he worked as administrative manager for Robinson Nevada Mining Company.

“Ricardo Patricio Giménez Salazar was born in Antofagasta, Chile, on November 28, 1971. He married Catherine Ivonne Carrazana Zúñiga in 1997. They are the parents of two children.”
This was Elder Giménez’s 2nd general conference address. His most recent address was “Finding Refuge from the Storms of Life” from the April 2020 General Conference.

Invitations

“[President Russell M. Nelson] has invited us to study and ponder the messages shared at the last two conferences. In April 2024, he said, ‘I hope you will repeatedly study the messages of this conference throughout the coming months.’ Then, in October 2024, he said: ‘I urge you to study [the speakers’] messages. Use them as a litmus test of what is true and what is not during the next six months.’ These invitations can be added to prophetic invitations we have received throughout our lifetimes, including and especially those we have received in recent years.”
- In our own words: Repeatedly study the messages of general conference and allow those messages to inform your understanding of truth.
- Clay Application: Begin reviewing the April 2025 General Conference messages we’ve already covered, revisiting the invitations we found. Maybe there’s something I forgot to do or a new invitation will stand out.
“As your brother, I hope you will consider my words as a sincere invitation to seek to understand the opportunity to link everything we do with our love for the Savior.”
- In our own words: “Seek to understand the opportunity to link everything we do with our love for the Savior.”
“In our world, we usually focus on what we do and on consistently accomplishing tasks and goals. In a spiritual sphere, we have the opportunity to go beyond just doing things or achieving goals by understanding why we are doing them. … we can understand and connect that the reason behind our actions relates to our love for the Savior and our Heavenly Father.”
- In our own words: “Connect … our actions … to our love for the Savior and our Heavenly Father.”
“Please don’t misunderstand my point about having activities and traditions or setting goals and working hard to achieve them; there is nothing wrong with this. However, I invite you to open your hearts and minds to the opportunity and blessing of understanding why we do these things and how we practice our religion.”
- In our own words: Better understand why we have activities and traditions as we practice our religion.
“President Nelson said, ‘Whatever questions or problems you have, the answer is always found in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.’ And then he extended this invitation: ‘Learn more about His Atonement, His love, His mercy, His doctrine, and His restored gospel of healing and progression. Turn to Him! Follow Him!’ Ponder this in your hearts and minds: Do you believe President Nelson’s invitation had the intention of helping us prepare a checklist where we will accumulate more knowledge and complete tasks so we can check off his invitation from our to-do lists? Or is he inviting us to consider the aspects of these eternal truths and principles as an opportunity to understand the ‘why’ and connect the Savior’s covenantal love for us with our lifelong discipleship journey?”
- In our own words: Ponder the ‘why’ for the many invitations that President Nelson extends in general conference and in other settings.
“The invitation is to study and ponder the messages from the general conference and use them to determine and understand what we each can do to improve.”
- In our own words: “Study and ponder the messages from … general conference and use them to determine and understand what we each can do to improve.”
“Understand that because I love the Savior, I want to learn more about Him by studying the words of the living prophets. And because I love my fellow man, I will share the teachings of prophets, seers, and revelators with others, starting with my loved ones.”
- In our own words: Learn about the Savior “by studying the words of living prophets,” and “share the teachings of prophets, seers, and revelators with others,” especially those we love.
- Mitch Application: I will conscientiously look for ways to incorporate General Conference messages in family home evenings, gospel teaching, conversations with family and friends, and even discussions with those not of our faith.
“I hope you can feel and see the importance of connecting our actions with our love for the Savior. In a globalized world, many voices will try to influence you and, if possible, lead you to believe that some fundamental truths of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ are unnecessary. These voices start with the essential truth of the need for a restoration in these the last days, including the necessity of having God’s kingdom on earth, represented by the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You may hear voices insisting that only a personal relationship or understanding with the Savior is sufficient and that religion or the restored Church is unnecessary or nonessential. I invite you to be slow to consider or even be immune to being influenced by these misleading ideas and to be quicker to remember what the Savior has been telling and teaching us since ancient times—beginning with the love of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ for us and connecting our love for Them as the reason to follow Them.”
- In our own words: Be slow to accept or even immune from uninspired opinions and be quick to remember the Savior’s teachings.

Discussion Questions

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What will you do?

How will you take action on the invitations extended in this General Conference address?

Conclusion

The focus of our next podcast episode will be the April 2025 General Conference Applications – Return and Report: Elder Ronald A. Rasband, Elder Stevenson, and Elder Renlund.

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