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Welcome to Closer to Christ through General Conference, where two friends share our own

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approach to studying General Conference.

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Today is the last and final talk, entitled, Rejoicing the Gift of Priesthood Keys, done

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by our beloved prophet, President Russell M. Nelson, President of the Church of Jesus

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Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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And so we get to talk.

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We get to hear from the man who is authorized, while he holds and is authorized to use all

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of the keys that have been given to us on earth, restored in this dispensation.

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And so, seems like he's the perfect guy to talk about this.

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He does spend a majority of it on what a blessing it is to have the Kirtland Temple back, but

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he kind of preludes it to saying when he was born, now 100 years ago, that there were

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six functioning temples in the church, and two temples that had functioned briefly being

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the Kirtland, Ohio, and the Nauvoo, Illinois, temple.

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And as the saints were forced to move west, those two temples were left behind.

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Nauvoo was destroyed by fire.

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Kirtland was desecrated by enemies.

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And later, the Kirtland Temple was acquired by Community to Christ, who has owned it for

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many years, up until the announcement, March 2024.

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Yeah, it was like right before the conference.

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That the church would be purchasing the Kirtland Temple because it's historic.

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Properties are great, but when they have real priesthood significance, they matter so much

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to us.

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And so we're able to preserve it in that way, not just as a beautiful building.

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And we mentioned that in another talk.

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We touched a bit on this in Elder Anderson's talk, actually, in Dotting the Temples.

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Totally.

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He said so much the same.

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Yeah.

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So, President Nelson shared the importance of the long prophesied events that happened

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in the Kirtland Temple, April 3rd, 1863.

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Do you want to summarize those for everybody?

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Sure.

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So the first one, and the most important being that the Lord Jesus Christ appeared and accepted

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his temple.

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The significance of this really can't be overstated.

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Like that is huge.

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And it happened on April 3rd, 1836.

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And then following that visitation, Moses appeared and he conferred upon Joseph Smith

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the keys of gathering of Israel and also the return of the Ten Tribes.

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So that's something we definitely talk about in a huge part of what we do right now.

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Then Elias appeared and committed the dispensation of the Gospel of Abraham to Joseph.

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And then Elijah, the prophet, appeared to confer the keys of the sealing power upon

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Joseph Smith.

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And then I love how President Nelson teaches this to us too.

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This didn't happen on April 3rd, 1836, but it's important to note that prior to the

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organization of the church, Peter, James, and John had confirmed the Aaronic and Melchizedek

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priesthoods upon the prophet Joseph Smith and had given him keys of both the priesthood.

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And then he just says, these keys gave Joseph Smith the authority to organize the church

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in 1830.

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So even in the first place, he needed the keys to even organize it in the beginning.

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And this is just what is an ongoing restoration, right?

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This is a good example of that.

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I also appreciate the clear way that President Nelson teaches this.

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He reminds us that the priesthood keys need to be conferred to organize the church.

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It speaks of the order of God that he uses in his organization.

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All things are built upon each other.

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A mighty work was to be done, and it's all done in proper order and a little bit at a

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time.

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If you were writing this stuff, making this stuff up, to think of the beauty of mentioning

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what angelic messenger comes to restore those keys at any given period of time as we're

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restoring the gospel, that this farm boy would have known to say in that order.

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I'm like, man, they give him a lot of credit for being a genius.

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He is, but just for other reasons.

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He's a genius because he knew how to ask right questions and plead to the Lord and listen

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and mess up and make up for those mess ups like everybody else.

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It's funny that, or not funny, but I love that you bring that up, Abby.

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As far as the prophet goes, I was listening today to President Nelson in 2019.

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He had a talk that he gave to the brethren.

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I'm not remembering what it is right now, but in that talk, I think it was something

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like we can do better and be better.

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That's what it was.

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In that talk, he said, I love the piece of the Lord's revelation given through.

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I think he said the Prophet Joseph Smith.

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I just like how he says that.

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I feel like the way that he says things instructs and teaches me in so many ways because it

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is the Lord's teachings.

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The Prophet Joseph Smith was probably asking questions saying, this came to mind or I read

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this in the Book of Mormon or whatever, like let's talk about his brother, Alvin.

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A question came and then revelation came because of that.

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I just like that he really has laid out that even for the Prophet, there is a revelatory

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experience, a process.

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Oftentimes starts with questions, inspired questions.

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Anyway.

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That's good stuff, Amy.

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We expect all that, it's because God knows everything and we are such mortal beings that

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we just want all the answers and one fails to open.

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It's like it's too much for us to accept.

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It's so much more beautiful to think, like you said, these other keys that were restored

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outside of this Kirtland Temple experience were because they needed those pieces and

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parts of God's power.

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Then they would demonstrate the proper use.

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They would start exercising those keys and do things that were pertinent to those keys

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and then they were given and blessed with more.

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I can't remember what we're studying, but it's like he told the people that they needed

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to prepare for God's power.

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They needed to prepare to build this temple, but it's like if that was the first thing

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that he threw at them, it would be very unachievable.

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It wouldn't be very fair.

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They have to be people that are prepared for it and then the temple comes.

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Absolutely.

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We're studying Doctrine and Covenants.

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I don't even remember where we were in this, but I thought that's so nice.

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He gives us an opportunity to prepare for something before the expectation to have the

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temple came about.

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It's usually a good amount of time.

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It's enough time to get it done, right?

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Yeah, but all of us were procrastinate.

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Anyway, these guys did a good job though.

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I'm proud of them.

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I am too.

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Let's ask a question.

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St. Nelson asks us each to consider this.

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How would your life be different if priesthood keys had not been restored to the earth?

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Such a good question.

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It reminds me of the questions like that we haven't come follow me, like the really good

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questions in there too, meaning like just to ponder on the things that we've been given.

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He said a few things.

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One of them is you could not be endowed with the power of God.

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So think of our endowment session that we have clearly, you know, going to the temple

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and that translates into having God's power.

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And he says the church could not serve.

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Oh, I love this.

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The church could serve only as a significant teaching and humanitarian organization.

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And then he adds, but not much more.

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But that truly is all it would be.

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You know, I just like that he really stripped it down to what it would look like.

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I've used that reasoning too though, before I've been like, if I'm being hoodwinked

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and this is not the Church of Jesus Christ, if this isn't his truth first on the earth,

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I would still be proud to be a member of this organization of the Relief Society for our

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impact and the power that we have in doing good around the world and the cumulative effect

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that we have.

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Like when disaster strikes, like I've seen our forces rally, they do amazing things.

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Our people do amazing things.

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Other people in the world also do amazing things.

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I'm not diminishing the great things people do, but I would be proud to be a member of

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this church for the way that we're able to rally the troops and get things done.

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That's a really good point.

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But it's way cooler that we are that with also the proper keys and proper authorization

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to use those keys.

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When I was trying to think of the words of how to say like what the prophet has, he holds

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the keys, he's authorized to use.

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He said a temper recommend question that you say, do I as a member support that the prophet

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uses those keys?

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I love that.

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I'm saying those keys exist and I'm saying you get to, I totally, I'm 100% in on you

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using those keys.

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I didn't even think of it that way either.

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But isn't that what after he was telling us like totally not lecturing us, but like

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probably reminding us, he's asked that temper recommend question way more than me.

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He's been asked, he's asked people as a bishop.

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So like the words come to his mind.

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I'm like, I know that I see, I know, I know the question, the gist of it is you sustain

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the prophet, but it was way more powerful when he was like saying, I sustain him to

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use those keys.

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I love that.

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It also goes without speaking.

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If I understand that and use that, then it also means that I don't believe that I am

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receiving revelation for anyone else other than my family.

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I use my agency to delegate that he gets to receive it for the brother church.

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Did we talk about, so yeah, the last one would be that the priesthood keys give us the authority

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to extend all of the blessings promised to Abraham to every covenant keeping man and

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woman.

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He's been so good at always saying man and woman.

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And I do love the talk that he speaks about where he says that every woman who is endowed

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has just as much access to priesthood power as a man who is also a covenant keeper.

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It's not a separate and unique power.

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It is not a different endowment by gender.

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I felt that same thing.

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I listened to this talk multiple times and wanted to squeeze out every piece of goodness

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that I could from it.

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And I'm not here to stir controversy, but my opinion is that we do have to testify that

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when they talk about rejoicing in the gift of the priesthood keys, there's so much to

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rejoice in because all of his children everywhere have male and female, color, country, it's

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equal power, equal buy-in, equal access to that power.

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Sentence has stayed in my mind where President Nelson said, if someone says to you, who is

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a woman and a covenant keeper, who's made covenants in the temple, that they're so

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sorry that you don't have a husband who does the same thing.

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I'm so sorry that the quote priesthood isn't in your house.

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They are wrong.

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I love that.

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He's like, you have as much claim to priesthood power as a man or a woman.

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That's the same.

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And so I love that part.

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Just thinking that she can do all of the same things and she can request help when needed

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if she feels like that's what she needs.

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Put it to the test if you don't really know if it's true for you.

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So the second part he did was he talked about the Kirkland Temple, yes, dedicatory prayer.

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And this is where it overlaps much with Elder Anderson's book.

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Yes.

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So, but this is the difference in it.

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He says, Joseph's this dedicatory prayer of the Kirkland Temple, Kirtland Temple is a

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tutorial about how the temple spiritually empowers you and me to meet the challenges

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of life in these last days.

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And then he asks us, he says, I encourage you to study that prayer record in DNC 109.

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How is it a tutorial about how it empowers me in these last days?

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That's like, I've noticed with President Nelson that he's never said anything that is not

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like very well thought out and very much like he's almost looking at us and kind of winking

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saying these are the answers you're looking for.

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Like I feel like he's done that.

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And in his sweet, sweet way, that is true.

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But if we don't turn to the Doctrine and Covenants 109 and we don't look at the Kirkland Temple

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prayer, then we're saying like, I'm not ready to see what that has to offer.

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But if we buy in and we follow his prompting to do that, then we can consider line by line.

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And the piece or part that we need the most will stand out to us.

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He's so good about that.

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He is so good about that.

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Also, I love when he says angels having charge of you is one of the things.

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And he said, how does it feel that you don't have to go through life alone?

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You actually have the help of your angel ancestors.

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That's a big deal.

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Okay, here's the synopsis, okay?

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Yes.

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Okay, the Kirkland Temple was built as a place for the Son of Man to visit.

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This is true about the Kirkland Temple.

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This is true about any temple that dots the land.

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I drove to Afton last night and the lights of the temple were shining on and I thought,

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what a beacon of light.

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And Afton is like a spiritual place.

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It's not like it's this inner city, like gang violence and drugs and stuff.

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But even in this beautiful, peaceful, quiet valley, the temple is still a contrast and

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even more peaceful than that.

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For sure.

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Then take that emotion and feeling that I have and do put it into a more gloomy, dark,

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more lorn, just a harder places in the world and that you know that those temples are sprouting

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up by the dozens, by the hundreds.

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Could they be built with mediocre materials?

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Could they be a little bit less extravagant?

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They could, but at the same time, isn't it so cool that in a place where like mud and

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cinder blocks is like a high standard of living, that still the best materials that the earth

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can provide are what's used there because we're going and we're being endowed as priests

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and priestesses, kings and queens, and it's a castle.

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It is.

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It's a lord.

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It's his home.

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It's his home.

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And I also thought at the same time, they do put a lot of money into these buildings.

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They're still also like, did you make any point to say all the amazing things that this

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great humanitarian group is doing?

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I don't know however the prophet worded it, you know, remove the keys from it is still

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an amazing humanitarian.

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We're feeding people.

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We're clothing people.

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We are housing people.

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We are loving people.

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We are showing them a greater and more glorious way at the same time that he's also bringing

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not just this fancy house, but keys that have been restored that change your eternities.

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Sorry, what did you think you were going to say?

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We see the fancy part inside, you know, I think it's also just indicative of how good

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the workmanship and the engineering is.

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Remember that our belief is that we want these, we're building these for now and for the

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future.

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We want them to withstand anything that the earth has to throw at us.

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And we want it to function through the millennium, which is after the Lord comes again.

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It's about connecting ourselves with the ancestors because we have a thousand years and we'll

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have 350 temples currently.

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So 350.

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Love that.

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So that's fact check.

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He was fact checking me.

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If it was like, oh, we have to get all these names done or else it's just going to be

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the end of this opportunity for this person.

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Then you're totally forgetting that we have a millennium and we'll millennia, a millennia

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of time and you know, every name that we have done proxy work for that's accepted the

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gospel of Jesus Christ, I think maybe they get to participate in the work in the millennium.

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All I know is that I am totally confident.

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Yes.

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Covenants, of course they would.

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Covenants have to be made because they can be teaching their ancestors.

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I mean, it's all, there are a bunch of different things that need to happen.

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This is like a compounding interest.

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It's like the effect of, of taking one, one name, one of these ancestors through and then

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the work that they're doing on the other side.

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Yes.

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I think it's actually the most genius plan in the world.

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It's a master plan.

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It's not, it's not this finite and it's not like we're going to run out of time to do

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it.

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He's going to make it totally possible to do it in every land by every people.

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What I want to demonstrate to Jesus Christ, what, what a place for him to touch down on

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earth should be and the feeling that I feel in there because I'm there recommended unto

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the Lord.

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I'm peaceful.

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I'm happy.

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I get clarity.

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I absolutely feel connection to my ancestors.

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I've had some of those same questions and I feel like we've learned with Adam and Eve.

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We've learned all through the scriptures.

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Questions are wonderful.

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They're a way to help us to connect to God.

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It depends on who we ask.

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If we are asking God for these questions, why do we have these buildings?

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I am a hundred percent confident that we're going to have answers distilled on our heart

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through the spirit and we will understand a little more, maybe not have a perfect understanding,

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but understand, have a little more clarity on why these things are.

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If we go to other places, for example, those who don't have a testimony of Jesus Christ

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and a heavenly father, then that's probably, you're going to probably be getting opposite

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information.

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That's totally true.

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Know who to go to for the right.

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Questions are great.

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Always go to God.

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That's how I, not trying to like stir a pot, but that's, I do appreciate that people are

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like pushing the envelopes and like trying to figure out, are we exercising the priesthood

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in like the best fashion?

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Are we taking full advantage of the power that God has bestowed on us in this earth

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life?

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And I think everybody should do that.

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I've asked that question for myself.

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I am a woman.

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I do not hold the priesthood.

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I have asked if there's something more for me and I have been confirmed time and time

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again that I have full access to the priesthood power.

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I've seen that in decisions that I've made in my family.

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I definitely work as a co-companion with my husband.

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I probably put more burden on him for certain things just because I can and he takes that.

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So why would I not do that?

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That would be dumb.

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But the gratitude that I feel, maybe there's things he puts on me that he knows that he

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can count on me for because maybe they're like divine gifts that I possess that he's

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able to access into.

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For sure.

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That's a good, that's the mark of a good partnership, right?

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Sure.

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When you fill in whatever.

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Yeah.

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It doesn't have to be a specific list of what we each have, but like as long as we as partners

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recognize when it's time to delegate to them for the things that you don't want to do,

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then they have to take them.

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That's great.

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Oh, did I go through?

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I opened up.

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Okay.

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The Kirtland temple was built as a place for the son of man.

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It is it.

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And then I went off on that tangent for the last 20 minutes.

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Okay.

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It's to be a house of prayer, fasting, faith, learning, glory and order in a house of God.

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Yes.

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The temple is that for us.

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May the unrepentant who oppose the Lord's people be confounded.

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May the saints go forth in power to gather the righteous to Zion.

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May the saints be delivered from the terrible things to be poured out upon the wicked in

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the last days.

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I just feel like the temples, especially as they're dotting the earth and just being way

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more accessible to way more of the saints, they are such a place of refuge from the turmoil

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that we're facing in this world.

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What a gift.

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And when we go there to have refuge and we come home, we carry that spirit with us.

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Absolutely.

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What talk was that?

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Bednar, be still.

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There you go.

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Yeah.

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That's done.

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That's definitely the message from that talk.

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Did I say may the saints go forth in power to gather the righteous to Zion?

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May the saints be delivered from terrible things?

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I did say that.

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May the nations and peoples and churches be prepared for the gospel.

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Nothing prepares people more than having a temple groundbreaking happen.

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There's so much opposition to get to that point, but it changes the dynamic of the place

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that it goes into.

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And Satan knows that, which is why there's the opposition.

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He works so hard to stall and prevent.

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But he doesn't get away.

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Usually they end up exactly where they're supposed to be and that all works out for

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the benefit of the world.

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May the nations and peoples and churches be prepared for the gospel.

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May the Jews, the Lamanites, and Israel be redeemed.

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May the saints be crowned with glory and honor and gain eternal salvation.

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So you're not wrong when he said go to that section in Doctrine and Covenants and let

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it be a tutorial.

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Yeah.

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I like that.

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The last part I like about what he says is he says, no weapon that is formed against

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thee will prosper.

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That makes me way happy.

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And it does put into my heart.

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I have questions that I want to formulate to ask Heavenly Father, what does that look

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like in my life?

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What does that look like in my family's life?

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Like what are the weapons that you need to prepare that are going to come at you?

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Not so much that.

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How do I prepare myself and my family so that no weapon, because I don't want to be thinking

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of all the weapons that can come toward me.

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I just want to know how I can strengthen myself.

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And so I'm just going to have my...

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Did the answer already come to you in saying that question?

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Is it already circled back?

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You know, it hasn't, but I would imagine right now that it is fortify my home and do all

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the things that like he has asked me to do already as a woman to help there to be a...

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Make your home like a temple.

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Yes.

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You're saying, and I'm thinking also hand in hand with that equally important, stay

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recommended to the Lord, enter his house and find the protection, peace and safety.

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If I can wordily attend the temple, then like it's not a checklist, but like I'm saying

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I'm prepared...

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That for me is validation that I'm prepared for whatever weapons are going to be formed.

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Absolutely.

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They said that so many times.

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They are...

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I'm sure they do in every general conference, but they want the most awesome gift, most

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ultimate power that they can possibly give to every child on this earth and that is with

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covenants in the temple.

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So let's close it up.

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So this talk has so much in it.

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It really does go through a bunch.

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Abby has covered some of it.

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I've covered some of it.

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We couldn't possibly go through it in a whole podcast.

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I will reemphasize that it will speak differently to every listener.

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There will be something that will jump out to you as you listen and you will have your

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questions answered.

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President Nelson is a master teacher and with his hundredth birthday this week, his teachings

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over the past six and a half years have been on my mind and my heart.

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His teachings have shaped the way I approach prayer in a more personal way and have helped

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me formulate questions for Heavenly Father.

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His words have taught that personal revelation is for me.

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And I love it.

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He said in one of his talks, not the person sitting next to you when he was speaking to

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the youth.

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He shared his process and taught me to seek and be confident in receiving personal revelation

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in my life, to grow into personal revelation.

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He's taught me how to look forward to Christ coming with a greater hope and a reality amid

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the chaos of our current life.

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This is the greatest gift he could give anyone in my mind.

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I love him and I'm so grateful for his service as prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of

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Latter-day Saints.

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Do you have anything to add to that, Abby?

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I'll just add because we just recently talked about the Book of Mormon in the last episode,

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seeing a sure way to prevent personal apostasy in our own lives and listening to the words

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of the prophet.

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It's just a pair of ancient scripture that holds truth today, that holds like the restored

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gospel of Jesus Christ is so important, but we do have a true and living church and that

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part is where the prophet comes into play.

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I absolutely believe that he receives revelation from Heavenly Father and that he directs this

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church with that power, with that authority.

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I do believe that he sees around corners and I do believe that whatever comes out of his

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mouth is my job to recognize his truth just through the Holy Ghost, but then to act upon

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it, not just listen to like, oh, it's a nice thing to say.

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It should propel me to action.

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And in listening to what he asked to say and propelling myself to action, it's like a demonstration

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of my love to my Savior Jesus Christ and it leads me back to him and Father.

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What a blessing it's been to study these conference talks with you, Amy.

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It's been so great, Abby.

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We'll catch you on the next session, I guess, guys.

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We sure will.

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I think it's going to be a week or so of a break by the time this one airs.

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It'll be like a good solid week before the next one.

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I don't know what that week looks like.

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It's probably just going to be a radio silence or we can do like a reminder of what we would

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do to prep for conference.

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But we'll chew on that for a minute and you'll see if it airs, then it does.

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And if it doesn't, it's just time to study.

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Right.

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We'll see you next time.

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Catch you later, guys.