My Weekly General Conference….

Some of you know, and some of you may not, that my Church holds a World Wide Conference twice a year.  It’s broadcast live and lasts a total of 8 hours over 2 days.  I SO look forward to Conference every year.  It just fills me up Spiritually.  Every year I make a goal to focus more on the teachings that I spent so many hours listening to.  I get a few chances to sit and read through the text versions but find that often they’re long forgotten by the time the next one rolls around.  I can’t possibly soak up Everything they said in the exact moment I hear it and then apply it all for the next 6 months!  I don’t think anyone can….  Anyway, I checked it out and this time around the number of talks almost perfectly corresponds to the number of weeks before the next Conference.  So, I plan on focusing on one talk a week.  To make sure I do it, I’m posting a link to the Audio & text versions of the talk on my blog…and maybe, if the girls are napping, I’ll even post an interesting fact or two about the speaker…..if I can find anything.  Well, I’m already 2 weeks behind but decided that I would go ahead and start at the beginning….

Here’s the first talk from Saturday morning session.

To Acquire Spiritual Guidance by Elder Richard G. Scott

Click here for TEXT and here for Video.

 

Quote:

• "[God] is your Father; pray to Him. If your life is in disarray and you feel uncomfortable and unworthy to pray because you are not clean, don’t worry. He already knows about all of that. He is waiting for you to kneel in humility and take the first few steps. Pray for strength. Pray for others to be led to support you and guide you and lift you. Pray that the love of the Savior will pour into your heart. Pray that the miracle of the Atonement will bring forgiveness because you are willing to change. I know that those prayers will be answered, for God loves you. His Son gave His life for you. I know they will help you."

“True Friends That Lift,” Ensign, Nov. 1988

Facts:

1.  Richard Gordon Scott is a current member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

2.  Richard G. Scott was born on November 7, 1928, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Kenneth Leroy Scott and Mary Eliza Whittle. At age five, the family moved to Washington DC, where his father worked in the Department of Agriculture.^[1] His father was not a member of the LDS Church at the time, and his mother was marginally active until the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture of the time, church apostle Ezra Taft Benson, named Kenneth Scott as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in the administration of Dwight D Eisenhower. Benson's influence led to his father's conversion and the reactivation of his mother. In 1988, as church president, Benson would later call Richard Scott to become an apostle of the church. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G._Scott)

3.  During the summers he worked various jobs to earn money for college. Working on an oyster boat off the coast of Long Island New York during one summer he found that, at times, the hardened fishermen mocked him for not drinking alcohol until a man went overboard and 17-year-old "“Scotty," as the only sober man on board, was told to put on his fins and mask and sent over to look for him. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G._Scott)

4.  From 1953 to 1965 Elder Scott served on the immediate staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover, directing the development of nuclear fuel for a wide variety of naval and land-based power plants. (http://www.mormonwiki.com/Richard_G._Scott)

5. The Scotts had seven children with five reaching adulthood. Their first son died after an operation to correct a congenital heart condition. Their second daughter lived only minutes and died just 6 weeks before the death of their first son.^[4] Jeanene Watkins Scott died on May 15, 1995 after a short battle with cancer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G._Scott)

6. Elder Scott is known for delivering compassionate talks at General Conference, looking directly into the camera, and pleading for repentance and improvements in the lives of members. He emphasizes the Savior's compassion and willingness to forgive past transgressions, and pleads for members to repent and move on with their lives.

Wow! I just learned a lot!