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Well, here we are at the last session. I didn’t go into the conference with any particular question in mind, but wow, I have felt the Spirit through so many talks, and especially during the music in the session this morning. It is going to be tough to top Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing!

President Dieter F Uchtdorf conducted

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang On This Day of Joy and Gladness

Elder W Craig Zwick offered the invocation

The choir sang Come unto Jesus

Elder L Tom Perry (Note: Can you believe Elder Perry is 89 years old, turning 90 this year?!?! Wow! I hope I look that good at that age)

• the Book of Mormon is the most correct book
• it is important for the world to have both the Bible and the Book of Mormon
• we can be delivered from evil by turning to the teachings of the scriptures
• “It’s a great book”
• much of the greatness comes from its harmony with the Book of Mormon

Elder M Russell Ballard

• the Liahona was a ball of curious workmanship
• compared it to a GPS
• 100 years ago Joseph F Smith connected happiness and the family. There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home
• when people make the family and religious commitments to gospel principles they being to do better spiritually and often temporally as well
• commitments to family and values are the basic cause. Nearly everything else is effect
• society at large is strengthened as families grow stronger
• prioritize… put everything outside your own in subjection to what happens inside your home
• do things in the right order… marriage then family
• to the YM bachelorhood carries to the superficial mind the idea that it is desirable because it brings with it a minimum of responsibility.
• to the YW you must also not lose sight of this responsibility. No career can bring you as much fulfillment as raising a family
• husbands and wives are equal partners… no one owns their spouse or children
• use the family resources of the church… the church is the scaffolding with which we build eternal families

Elder O Vincent Haleck

• where there is no vision the people perish
• we must see ourselves as the Savior sees us
• focus on the things that matter most

The choir and congregation sang Hope of Israel

Elder Larry Y Wilson

• we must lead with principles of righteousness
• compulsion builds resentment
• women too may exercise unrighteous dominion
• if parents hold onto all decision-making power they severely limit the growth and development of their children
• prepare children to get along without you

Elder David F Evans

• what can I do to build up the Lord’s church?
• the most important work is within our own home and family
• we must be faithful ourselves so our children can see our joy in the gospel
• it is the worth of souls, no matter their condition, that is great in the sight of God and our Savior
• was it worth it? Was all the effort over all the years worth it to have just one baptism. The answer is yes!

Elder Paul B Pieper

• our experiences with the diving may not be like a prophet, but our strength to endure faithfully depends on holding sacred that which we receive from above
• finding things to be sacred takes an act of agency
• we can’t be affected by secular things
• the sacred cannot be selectively abandoned in life
• those who chose to abandon sacred things will have their minds darkened

Elder Neil L Andersen

• what think you of Christ? what thinks Christ of me?
• being a discipline in these days of destiny will be a badge of honor throughout the eternities
• we receive customized direction from the Holy Ghost
• discipleship is not a competition, but an invitation to all
• wherever you are on the road of discipleship, you are on the right road
• whether in this life or the next, all will be made right

President Thomas S Monson

• he thanked everyone who helped make the conference possible
• the gospel gives our lives meaning, purpose and hope
• settle contentions now

The choir sang I Need Thee Every Hour

Elder Jairo Mazzagardi offered the benediction

Read the recaps and other notes from the 182nd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

• 182nd Annual General Conference – Pre-conference notes
• 182nd Annual General Conference – Saturday Morning General Session
• 182nd Annual General Conference – Saturday Afternoon General Session
• 182nd Annual General Conference – Priesthood Session
• 182nd Annual General Conference – Sunday Morning General Session
• 182nd Annual General Conference – Sunday Afternoon General Session
• 182nd Annual General Conference – Post-conference notes