They had to rely on the kindness of acquaintances until they eventually bought another home somehow. told of a family who sold their home so they could afford to travel 1000 miles to the temple to be sealed. I appreciated how this story lacked a Correlated ending, with a miraculous healing and doctors and nurses converted to boot. Nielson told the story of how his family rallied around his father when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but in the end, he died in just a few months. Instead, they chose to make their discipleship of Jesus Christ their primary consideration.” He concluded, “The Finns were no less Finnish the Russians were no less Russian neither group abandoned their culture, history, or experiences to banish enmity. Renlund told of how when a temple was built in Finland, the temple committee, made up entirely of Finns, decided to allow visiting Russians to perform the first ordinances in the temple, in spite of the fact that the Russians and Finns have historically been enemies. I love this story because the women helped the refugees, and in particular because they helped them in a way that showed them taking the recipients’ religion seriously. The LDS women then sewed head coverings for the Afghan women. Sharon Eubank told about some German LDS women who discovered that women among Afghan refugees who had arrived near them had lost their head coverings.Johnson called Jesus “the Master Author.” Uchtdorf referred to “the gentle Christ,” “our bountiful and forgiving God,” and the “God of new beginnings.” Camille N. Should love you.”īest labels for deity: Dieter F. Wilcox told of a time when voice to text converted his intended message to his daughter and son-in-law “Hey, you two. My faith would be most strengthened if the next member were Elder James R. Latest member of the BYU athlete-to-GA pipeline: Vaiangina Sikahema (following Gifford Nielsen and Devin Durrant). Craven” when she was going to give a prayer in the Saturday afternoon session. Your name will be assimilated into standard Conference format: Becky Craven, who’s listed under that name on the Church website, was introduced as “Rebecca L. A sermon in a sentence.īest visual aid: Clark G. Wilcox, “Worthiness Is Not Flawlessness”. No other talk was shorter than 1000 words.īest title: Bradley R. Nelson gave talks to open and close Conference that were about 550 words. Stevenson, “Simply Beautiful-Beautifully Simple”, 1821 words Wright, Saturday morning benediction, 54 seconds The previous shortest longest was 94 seconds in April, 2019.) Lund, Saturday evening invocation, 83 seconds (This is the shortest longest prayer for a Conference I’ve found in the prayer length data I could find. (I’m just going to assume that their organist, whose face was hidden behind a mask, was also sporting a goatee.) Please, could we not embrace making ourselves feel more guilty?īiggest music-related surprise: Not one but two men in the BYU choir that sang Saturday evening had mustaches. Worst line in a musical number: “How many drops of blood were spilled for me?” from “This is the Christ”, Saturday afternoon. Most up-tempo musical numbers: “Come, Rejoice” and “Sing Praise to Him”, both Sunday morning I appreciate when choirs sing new arrangements so we can hear new takes on old hymns, but I didn’t like this particular one. Worst musical number: “Hark, All Ye Nations”, Saturday afternoon. Best musical numbers: “Come, Ye Children of the Lord”, Saturday morning “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”, Saturday evening
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