General Conference: “The Guide to [Our] Walk and Talk”
I love General Conference. I’m always a bit saddened when the spiritual feast comes to an end and the “conference is adjourned for six months.”
However, hasn’t the feast just begun?
Conference talks are now available for review on lds.org. We will all be receiving our Conference issue of the Ensign in a few short weeks. Will we continue to study and ponder the words of our prophets and other inspired leaders?
President Ezra Taft Benson (13th President of the Church) once said:
For the next six months, your conference edition of the Ensign should stand next to your standard works and be referred to frequently. As my dear friend and brother Harold B. Lee said, we should let these conference addresses ‘be the guide to [our] walk and talk during the next six months. These are the important matters the Lord sees fit to reveal to this people in this day.’
Following the example of a former bishop of ours, we plan on buying each member of our family a copy of the Conference Ensign, so we can study the addresses together as a family. My husband likes to listen to recordings in the car. I love to listen on my computer while I do housework or exercise, and am anxiously awaiting the Conference Ensign.
Whatever medium we choose, I hope we can all continue to feast on the counsel we received in General Conference this past weekend, making the words of our leaders our “walk and talk.”
October 13th, 2007 06:12
I turned on my computer this morinng to watch Sister Beck’s talk, but decidedd to check Outlook really quickly.
Thanks, Michelle, for reminding us that the feast is still here for us.
October 13th, 2007 06:18
I, too, am looking forward to reading, listening, and pondering the inspiring talks given in this October General Conference. I always find gems of wisdom that I didn’t fully appreciate when I heard them the first time.
Thanks for these great quotes from Presidents Benson and Lee. What a blessing to have timely advice and counsel given to us twice a year!
I’m trying to make some changes in my priorites, based on things I heard in Conference, and I’m sure that revisiting the addresses will help me to refine and improve my “walk and talk” further–and encourage me when I stumble along the way!
October 18th, 2007 19:57
I spend the interim six months listening over and over to each session while I run. That puts it into my head every morning for an hour. I’ve made it through the Spring Conference dozens of times, and was enriched every time. The mp3’s were just released a day or two ago, and I’m so excited to swap them out.
My life is so much calmer when I hear the council I need to hear each day. Great idea about the conference issues. I think I’ll borrow the idea for my family — thanks!
October 20th, 2007 11:57
This is only the second General Conference I’ve watched. I’m new to LDS, but I really like the Conferences and I like to get the November “Ensign” magazine to have all the talks in written form.
Thanks for your blog! Ive marked it in my favorites.
Please visit my LDS blog, if you get a chance and leave a comment.
Thank you!
October 22nd, 2007 19:41
It’s amazing to me how quickly I went from a high school student that sort of paid attention to Conference to a college-student (and now mother) who just devours Conference. I also place my Conference Ensign next to my scriptures and refer to it often for the 6 months until the next Conference.
Thanks for the reminder, though. It’s good to think about these Conference talks as we would scripture, because it truly is!
October 24th, 2007 22:20
Justine, Bethie, Cheryl, thanks for your comments. (Sorry it’s taken so long to respond…my email was inaccessible and that lets me know when people have commented.)
Justine, that’s an awesome way to review Conference. You have made it your run and your talk.
Bethie, it warms my heart to hear your feelings about Conference as it is all so new to you. I will take a hop over to your blog.
Cheryl, Conference is never long enough for me. I am so grateful it comes every six months! I, too, remember what it was like as a teenager. Just not quite the same. I got tired of repetition, and could easily zone out. Now I love the repetition, because it helps me know what to focus on, and I also find that the Spirit can teach me at different levels and in different ways as we review what seems to be so ‘basic.’