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June 1830 General Conference

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General Conference has been a major part of Mormonism since its official organization in 1830. It has also been a major part of my blog, and I wanted to give them their due. So, for the month of October, I will go over the most historically important general conferences in history. For the first entry, I will be including a description of the first ever general conference from the  History of the Church  by Joseph Smith, Located in Volume 1, Chapter 9, pg. 84-85. On the ninth day of June 1830, we held our first conference as an organized Church. Our numbers were about thirty, besides whom believers or anxious to learn. Having opened by singing and prayer, we partook together of the emblems of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. We then proceeded to confirm several who had lately been baptized, after which we called out and ordained several to the various offices of the Priesthood. Much exhortation and instruction was given, and the Holy Ghost was poured out upon us in...
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Russell M Nelson "Self Mastery"

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President Russel M Nelson died on Saturday night. He has done a lot for the church, from delivering inspiring sermons to changing church policies. He gave me hope during the COVID pandemic in 2020. TO honor the man, I will be sharing one talk of his from the October 1985 general conference. Quest for self-mastery If our faith be united in prayer that we may be edified together, I should like to speak about our quest for self-mastery. In so doing, I would converse as a loving father counseling one of my own children. Before you can master yourself, my precious one, you need to know who you are. You consist of two parts — your physical body, and your spirit which lives within your body. You may have heard the expression "mind over matter." That's what I would like to talk about — but phrase it a little differently: "spirit over body." That is self-mastery. When you arrived as a newborn baby, your little body was master. You had what I call the "I-want-what-I ...
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Melvin J Ballard "The Sacramental Covenant"

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  Melvin J. Ballard was the son of Bishop Henry Ballard and Margaret McNeil, pioneers of Utah, and was born in Logan, Utah, February 9, 1873. He was raised on a farm and spent the hours he could snatch from other duties in diligent study. He graduated from the Brigham Young College in 1894, and later taught music, in which he is gifted, in that institution. He had given fourteen years to outside missionary service besides work in the Church at home and presided over the Northwestern States Mission for ten years. After all that, he was ordained an apostle January 7, 1919 and opened the South American Mission in 1925 in Bueros Aires, Argentina. Before leaving the following July, he prophesied, " The work of the Lord will grow slowly for a time just as an oak grows slowly from an acorn... The work here is the smallest it will ever be. The South American Mission will become a power in the Church." He served in the quorum for twenty years, before passing away from cancer on July...
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Jedediah Morgan Grant "Those Who Are in Darkness Cannot Discern the Light"

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Jedediah Morgan Grant was one of the great pioneers of the early church. I plan on going more detail into his life, but for now, here is a sermon delivered by him located in the Journal of Discourses, as the twenty seventh sermon in the fourth volume.    While the sacrament is passing, I will occupy a short time, for I wish to bear my testimony to the truth of what we heard in the forepart of the day. It is not for want of truths or testimonies that the people are careless, but it is for the lack, on their part, of living up to the truths and testimonies they hear. We have, in the revelations of God and in the teachings of the servants of God, a great variety of truths, but those truths are not specially in force and brought to bear upon our minds, and to be carried out in our practice, until we are fully impressed by that gift of the Lord God, which we call the Holy Ghost. When the Spirit of the Lord rests upon a community, they naturally are inclined to feel after the L...
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The "Spirit Prevails" by Joseph Morris Pt. 2

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Previously, I went over the history of Joseph Morris and his sect of Mormonism, while sharing a few passages from a collection of revelations given to him, compiled in a book known as the spirit Prevails. I shared only a fraction of what was contained in that book, and while I definitely cannot share every single entry, I will share a little more. Instruction for the Prophet No. 87.                                                             Weber, Utah, August 14th, 1861. 1 . Behold, I am he who moves forth in the midst of darkness and the darkness comprehendeth him not, even Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father; and I am come to speak unto you concerning those things which you desire to know of me. You must be very careful who you read this revelation to. You must read it to your two counsellors, and ...
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