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Category: General Conference Odyssey

Spirituality: Turning Ourselves Over to Jesus

By Jan Tolman
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October 14, 2019
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| General Conference Odyssey

During our recent conference, a lot of the talks focused on our spirituality. More specifically, our commitments to the covenants we make and how focused we are in staying on the path. In the Sunday morning session of the October 1985 General Conference, Dallin H. Oaks spoke on the topic of Spirituality. This is an […]

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Posted in General Conference Odyssey Tagged eternal truths, mortal experience 2 Comments

We Have Prophets, Seers, and Revelators

By Jan Tolman
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October 7, 2019
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Our General Conferences are getting more and more amazing, don’t you think? We’ve already been given a preview of what to look forward to next year and it looks like the amazing-ness will continue. There’s no need for me to go through all the changes we’re experiencing because as it is, they’re all being talked […]

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Doctrine of the Priesthood: Oath and Covenant

By Jan Tolman
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September 30, 2019
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Sisters, do we know and understand the doctrine of the Priesthood as well as we should? Would you be able to answer questions about it? Would you be able to testify of your faith and knowledge? The Priesthood is given to us as a covenant and a blessing in our lives.   In the October 1985 […]

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Ten Ways to Pray for the Atonement to Help Us

By Jan Tolman
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September 23, 2019
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In the October 1985 General Conference, Elder Robert D. Hales gave a talk on Lessons from the Atonement that Help Us to Endure to the End. I discovered ten ways to pray for the Atonement to help us. Pray to Know How to Act Elder Hales says, “Many times when we pray, we merely restate […]

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Love–Three Talks With Wise Counsel

By Jan Tolman
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September 16, 2019
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This week, I am covering the October 1985 Saturday morning session. Three talks on love stood out to me. Elder Loren C. Dunn reminds us what the first great commandment is: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the […]

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Willing to Give Up All

By Jan Tolman
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September 9, 2019
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During this last session of the April 1985 General Conference, Elders Oaks and Maxwell spoke of the idea of willing to give up all. How willing are each of us to give up all and come unto the Lord? I believe this is the most important question to ask ourselves as inhabitants of the earth. […]

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Heart Petals: The Language of the Spirit

By Jan Tolman
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September 2, 2019
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President Thomas S. Monson will forever be known as a master of listening to the Spirit and acting on His promptings. President Nelson has asked us to create our own experiences by learning how to use personal revelation in our own lives. We live in a day where true safety, love, and worthiness will come […]

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Posted in General Conference Odyssey Tagged Holy Ghost, Revelation 2 Comments

Pleasing Heavenly Father by Being More Good

By Jan Tolman
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August 26, 2019
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The other day, I happened to be looking online for a painting by Minerva Teichert. I really love her style and would like to have something of hers hanging on my wall. But, instead, I ran into something I had never seen before. It was a certificate of the Relief Society declaring its purpose. Remember […]

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Guidance For Those Who Seek

By Jan Tolman
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August 19, 2019
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I graduated from college two years ago. Yes, I know, I’m old and I thought it was too late. But, I did it! Anyway, one of my classes was on rhetorical writing. It had prerequisites that I hadn’t taken, and I was completely stumped on how to fulfill the required paper I had to write. […]

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To Boldly Stand For Truth and Righteousness

By Jan Tolman
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August 12, 2019
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The first session of the April 1985 General Conference has some of the most powerful talks ever given in a conference. The message I got from them was that we must boldly stand for truth and righteousness no matter what.   President Ezra Taft Benson (serving as the president of the Quorum of the Twelve […]

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