Elder Hales

ELDER HALES

“General Conference: Strengthening Faith and Testimony” October 2013

This Talk focused on the importance of general conference and how it can help us and how we can prepare for it.

““You must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right.” Conference messages come to us after prayerful preparation, through the Holy Ghost.”
Elder Hales, General Conference: Strengthening Faith and Testimony, October 2013 General Conference

 “What is said is not as important as what we hear and what we feel. That is why we make an effort to experience conference in a setting where the still, small voice of the Spirit can be clearly heard, felt, and understood.”
Elder Hales, General Conference: Strengthening Faith and Testimony, October 2013 General Conference

 “The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we gather to hear the words of the Lord, and we return to our homes to live them.”
Elder Hales, General Conference: Strengthening Faith and Testimony, October 2013 General Conference

I feel as a whole, we take general conference for granted. We get to hear answers to our prayers, personal guidance from our Heavenly Father through the voices of His loving servants. I am hugely at fault for not preparing as much as I should for conference. I have not received as much personal guidance as I could have every year but I will truly strive to do better and do as the Lord would have me do.

“Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ” October 2009

This Talk was about Heavenly Father and His nature. It quotes scriptures that explains His nature and how we can gain a testimony of Him and that He exists.

“The light of belief is within you, waiting to be awakened and intensified by the Spirit of God and the Light of Christ, which you are born with.”
Elder Hales, Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ” October 2009 General Conference

“I testify that the way to know the truth about God is through the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost, the third member of the Godhead, is a personage of spirit. His work is to “testify of [God]” and to “teach [us] all things.””
Elder Hales, Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ” October 2009 General Conference

“When we do not do what is right or when our outlook is dominated by skepticism, cynicism, criticism, and irreverence toward others and their beliefs, the Spirit cannot be with us. We then act in a way that the prophets describe as the natural man.”
Elder Hales, Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ” October 2009 General Conference

 “Cultivate a diligent desire to know that God lives. This desire leads us to ponder on the things of heaven—to let the evidence of God all around us touch our hearts.”
Elder Hales, Seeking to Know God, Our Heavenly Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ” October 2009 General Conference

I loved the references Elder Hales used to prove what he says about the nature of God. I really like that we have those scriptures so that we can really know our Father in Heaven. We are made in his likeness, that fact seriously just makes me feel more loved by Him.