General Conference Applied "My Love for the Savior Is My 'Why'"
7/20/2025: S5 E30, Episode 139, Elder Ricardo P. Giménez, April 2025 General Conference, "My Love for the Savior Is My 'Why'".
Clay and Mitch identified the following invitations and shared how they will take action:
1. "[President Russell M. Nelson] has invited us to study and ponder the messages shared at the last two conferences. In April 2024, he said, 'I hope you will repeatedly study the messages of this conference throughout the coming months.' Then, in October 2024, he said: 'I urge you to study [the speakers'] messages. Use them as a litmus test of what is true and what is not during the next six months.' These invitations can be added to prophetic invitations we have received throughout our lifetimes, including and especially those we have received in recent years."
2. "As your brother, I hope you will consider my words as a sincere invitation to seek to understand the opportunity to link everything we do with our love for the Savior."
3. "In our world, we usually focus on what we do and on consistently accomplishing tasks and goals. In a spiritual sphere, we have the opportunity to go beyond just doing things or achieving goals by understanding why we are doing them. ... we can understand and connect that the reason behind our actions relates to our love for the Savior and our Heavenly Father."
4. "Please don't misunderstand my point about having activities and traditions or setting goals and working hard to achieve them; there is nothing wrong with this. However, I invite you to open your hearts and minds to the opportunity and blessing of understanding why we do these things and how we practice our religion."
5. "President Nelson said, 'Whatever questions or problems you have, the answer is always found in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.' And then he extended this invitation: 'Learn more about His Atonement, His love, His mercy, His doctrine, and His restored gospel of healing and progression. Turn to Him! Follow Him!' Ponder this in your hearts and minds: Do you believe President Nelson's invitation had the intention of helping us prepare a checklist where we will accumulate more knowledge and complete tasks so we can check off his invitation from our to-do lists? Or is he inviting us to consider the aspects of these eternal truths and principles as an opportunity to understand the 'why' and connect the Savior’s covenantal love for us with our lifelong discipleship journey?"
6. "The invitation is to study and ponder the messages from the general conference and use them to determine and understand what we each can do to improve."
7. "Understand that because I love the Savior, I want to learn more about Him by studying the words of the living prophets. And because I love my fellow man, I will share the teachings of prophets, seers, and revelators with others, starting with my loved ones."
8. Be slow to accept or even immune from uninspired opinions and be quick to remember the Savior's teachings.
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