Rain Posted July 21, 2016 Posted July 21, 2016 I started thinking about this and now I'm really curious. It may seem to belong in the Social Hall, but if you give me a little time I can show why it belongs here. Which specific conference talk (or couple of talks) has changed you the most because of your APPLICATION of the talk in your life?
rongo Posted July 22, 2016 Posted July 22, 2016 We choose as a family conference talks from the previous conference to re-listen to and discuss every Sunday afternoon. This works out to about 36 talks from each conference, so we cover most of them. I asked my wife, and it was hard to come up with concrete examples. Two, though, are fasting (a talk in 2002-2003 defined fasting as 24 hours. Prior to that, "two meals" for us meant right before midnight and when we got home from church), presiding in the home (I used to try to have prayers distributed equally by turn, but after the talk, I started to try to have it be more by the Spirit. It also wasn't me "presiding," as such, but more of "Whose turn is it?"). I know those seem like small things, but I think mainly we gain as we try to live the principles we are taught and reminded of, and we don't always see them or think of them. "By small and simple means are great things brought to pass," etc. 1
Rain Posted July 22, 2016 Author Posted July 22, 2016 1 hour ago, rongo said: We choose as a family conference talks from the previous conference to re-listen to and discuss every Sunday afternoon. This works out to about 36 talks from each conference, so we cover most of them. I asked my wife, and it was hard to come up with concrete examples. Two, though, are fasting (a talk in 2002-2003 defined fasting as 24 hours. Prior to that, "two meals" for us meant right before midnight and when we got home from church), presiding in the home (I used to try to have prayers distributed equally by turn, but after the talk, I started to try to have it be more by the Spirit. It also wasn't me "presiding," as such, but more of "Whose turn is it?"). I know those seem like small things, but I think mainly we gain as we try to live the principles we are taught and reminded of, and we don't always see them or think of them. "By small and simple means are great things brought to pass," etc. Thank you! They don't seem like small things to me. I definitely agree with the small/great things counsel. The fasting talk - do you think it is The Blessings of a Proper Fast (2004) or maybe The Law of the Fast (2004)? Do you remember anything more about the presiding in the home one? Who gave it or about when? Or any specific lines from it?
rongo Posted July 22, 2016 Posted July 22, 2016 It was the Elder Pratt talk! Good find! The other one was Charles Dahlquist (from when he was general young men's president. He was also my first mission president). A more recent one that occurs to me was Elder Ballard from last conference: family councils. This made my family want to hold more formal family councils. 1
Jeanne Posted July 22, 2016 Posted July 22, 2016 Just curious. Do most of you take conference talks from the Ensign? Or do you tape conferences?
Rain Posted July 22, 2016 Author Posted July 22, 2016 1 hour ago, rongo said: It was the Elder Pratt talk! Good find! The other one was Charles Dahlquist (from when he was general young men's president. He was also my first mission president). A more recent one that occurs to me was Elder Ballard from last conference: family councils. This made my family want to hold more formal family councils. Is this the Dahlquist one? Who’s on the Lord’s Side? I can only find one by him so either I am misunderstanding what you got from it or you got something totally different than I did which I think is great.
rongo Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 It may have been an Aaronic priesthood training instead of a conference talk.
rongo Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 2 hours ago, Jeanne said: Just curious. Do most of you take conference talks from the Ensign? Or do you tape conferences? We listen to conference live, take notes, re-listen as a family during the next six months (as said, a different talk every Sunday), and read them in the Ensign. 1
bluebell Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 2 hours ago, Jeanne said: Just curious. Do most of you take conference talks from the Ensign? Or do you tape conferences? I get mine from the conference edition of the Ensign or the gospel library app on my phone. You can also watch them on lds.org but i don't usually go that route. 1
rongo Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 Actually, Rain, come to think of it, our practice of re-listening to and discussing them was started at my wife's behest after President Monson recommended re-listening to them and/or reading them in the intervening six months. So, the biggest application of all was right in front of our nose . . . I have no idea which President Monson talk that was . . . 1
Jeanne Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 Thanks Rongo and Bluebell for your input. I remember using the Ensign a lot. Was wondering if the talks were complete and the same without editing. Thanks!
Judd Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 5 hours ago, rongo said: The other one was Charles Dahlquist (from when he was general young men's president. He was also my first mission president). He was our stake president when he was called as a mission president. I still remember that though I was quite young.
Rain Posted July 23, 2016 Author Posted July 23, 2016 4 hours ago, Jeanne said: Just curious. Do most of you take conference talks from the Ensign? Or do you tape conferences? I get them at lds.org. If you read online then you you can listen as you read if you want. Most of the time though I read them through the Gospel Library app. 1
Rain Posted July 23, 2016 Author Posted July 23, 2016 1 hour ago, rongo said: It may have been an Aaronic priesthood training instead of a conference talk. OK. Thanks
Jane_Doe Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 19 hours ago, Jeanne said: Just curious. Do most of you take conference talks from the Ensign? Or do you tape conferences? Just pull them up on line, in whichever format I'm in the mood for.
Rain Posted July 27, 2016 Author Posted July 27, 2016 I'm bumping this one more time. I appreciate the answers so far, but would really appreciate as many more as I can get before I look at them. I know they may be hard to think of specifically, but hopefully reading the other talk titles on this thread will remind you of talks you have applied to your life.
BlueDreams Posted July 27, 2016 Posted July 27, 2016 I've been thinking about this for a bit, but don't know if I've had one significant one. I've felt closest to the talks by uchtdorf on patience and hope. this last conference, according to the amount of Personal notes I took, it was Renlund's talk. But my eyes caught onto the notes under Eyring's talk and I feel like that would probably help me more right now. Sis Mariott's talk about everything will be okay has also been important and I hav it echo in my heart a little here and there too. But I'm too tired for more introspection with luv, BD 1
Calm Posted July 27, 2016 Posted July 27, 2016 This didn'treally change anything I was doing, but it helped framed how I view and talk about what we are here for: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/10/the-challenge-to-become?lang=eng&_r=1 1
theplains Posted July 29, 2016 Posted July 29, 2016 On 22/07/2016 at 8:44 PM, rongo said: We listen to conference live, take notes, re-listen as a family during the next six months (as said, a different talk every Sunday), and read them in the Ensign. Do you believe the Conference talk given back in 1928 on the Hill Cumorah? Thanks Jim
Rain Posted July 29, 2016 Author Posted July 29, 2016 On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Calm said: This didn'treally change anything I was doing, but it helped framed how I view and talk about what we are here for: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/10/the-challenge-to-become?lang=eng&_r=1 That works. I don't think "applying" needs to be something physical. I didn't want to define it because I know we often apply things in different ways. I just didn't want it to be a talk that even though you thought it was good it didn't change anything in you.
Rain Posted January 3, 2017 Author Posted January 3, 2017 Bumping this once more. I let life get in the way, but the children are headed back to school tomorrow and next week and I'm caught up on most things so I would like to work on this some more. I would really like some more information (more people responding) before I do so though. So please consider answering my question about this. I won't ask again so that I don't bug everyone. Which specific conference talk (or couple of talks) has changed you the most because of your APPLICATION of the talk in your life?
Recommended Posts