General Conference Applied "Our Heavenly Guidance System"
8/14/2025: S5 E38, Episode 147, Elder Sergio R. Vargas, April 2025 General Conference, "Our Heavenly Guidance System".
Clay and Mitch identified the following invitations and shared how they will take action and how you could take action:
1. "As we focus our lives on Jesus Christ, we will find our way home, enduring to the end and rejoicing to the end. ... I invite all of us today to center our lives on Jesus Christ and His teachings. Doing so will help us avoid biting the hooks of temptation, offense, and self-pity. We will stand as temples—holy, firm, and constant. We will weather the storms, and we will make it home, enduring to the end and rejoicing to the end."
2. Focus on Jesus Christ and not on the situation. [Remember] "President Russell M. Nelson taught that 'the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.'"
3. "At that very moment, a concerned priesthood holder stood in front of me. He lovingly invited me to focus on Christ and not on the situation we had experienced in class. As I looked back on the experience with him, he shared with me that he heard a voice tell him, 'Go after him; he is important to me.'"
4. "Just as salmon need to be nourished in the ocean to grow, we also need to nourish ourselves spiritually to avoid dying of spiritual malnutrition. Prayer, the scriptures, the temple, and our regular attendance at Sunday meetings are vital in our spiritual menu."
5. "The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'a man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.'"
6. "Ask for help. Jesus Christ understands and is always eager to share our burdens. Remember that He is known as 'a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.' The Savior taught, 'In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.'"
7. "We may not totally forget our sins as part of our mortal learning so we will remember not to repeat them. Instead, we will remember Him as we take the sacrament at church every Sunday. This ordinance is an essential part of worship and spiritual development. Joy comes when we understand that this is not just another day. 'The sabbath was made for man' with the intention of giving us rest from the world and renewing our body and spirit."
8. "Go to the temple - the house of the Lord. Temples give us a deeper knowledge of Jesus Christ as the center of the covenant that leads us to eternal life."
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