October 2019 General Conference

Thoughts while listening to the General Conference Talks:

Elder Holland:

1. I am the "blind" man in the story. The "spiritually sensitive" people in the crowd are the prophet and apostles pointing the way to and witnessing of Christ. 

2. I gather with others to General Conference to beg for mercy that I might have my own sight restored. "Jesus, thou Son of David, Have mercy on me!"

3. Between now and the 200th anniversary of the Sacred Grove experience, strive to create a similar environment of "religious ferver" in preparation for the Father and the Son to reveal themselves to ME!

4. Don't get distracted by all the "clamor" that surrounds our church activity and schedules and traditions. Keep my focus on Jesus, the meaning and purpose of it all. Even God the Father turned Joseph's attention and focus to Jesus. "This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him."

5. Remind others that "self reliance supplies" are a continuing part of our religious practice.

6. Have a YW lesson where you put Jesus in the center and all the doctrines in a circle around Him. Put a string from each doctrine to Christ. Have a discussion where we tie each doctrine back to Christ.

7. Retreat to the "solitude" of the temple. Let it be my "sacred grove" to cut through the "darkness and confusion" around me. There I may receive a "gift of sight unimagined and unanticipated".  I can come to "see" and "hear" God and His Son. 

8. He bore apostolic witness of Joseph's experience. The most thrilling sight and sound in life is that of Jesus coming to us, stopping beside us and making His abode with us.

9. See Christ at the center of my life, my faith, and my service. THAT is where true meaning lies.

10. "I promise with apostolic ferver and prophetic conviction that He will hear you and will say, soon or late, "Receive thy sight. Thy faith hath saved thee."