An absolutely amazing conference. I have been uplifted and inspired.
Really love the talk by the apostle Dale G. Renlund.
He talk about Micah 6:6-8, where Micah the prophet talks about thousands of rams sacrificed, or ten thousands of rivers of oil, or giving his first born to satisfy for his sins. But the Lord wants none of those things. The Lord wants us to "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God". Of ourselves we are not enough to answer for our sins, but when we "do justly" we keep the first two great commandments to love God and our fellow man (see Mark 12:30), we come unto Christ and With Christ we are enough.
Elder Renlund talk about Christ teaching the Nephies about coming to Him with a broken heart and a contrite spirit (see 3 Nephi 12:19).
Brother Renlund talk about "joyfully repenting" and about how God loves mercy. I felt impressed that God extends that mercy to me and I need to "joyfully repent".
Elder Renlund told the story of Hillel the elder who was challenged by a student to explain the scriptures and torah while standing on one foot. Hillel answered the students chanllenge and while standing on one foot Hillel quoted from Deuteronomy 6:5, that we should "love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might". Then Hillel talk about not mistreating others and quoted from Leviticus 19:18 that we should "love thy neighbour as thyself" . I was impressed that we are to deal lovingly with one another. I believe this especially applies within our family. I believe we have an obligation as children to understand the gospel so we can share that with our parents and be more effective in communicating with them by the power of the Spirit.
Brother Renlund told about a doctor who gave an assignment to a young doctor to take care of a man who had made himself sick through alcoholism. When the young doctor complained that this was a difficult task for someone who had made themselves sick. The senior doctor said that the young doctor was there to heal and not to judge and that if she couldn't understand that she need to go somewhere else.
Elder Renlund talked about how Jesus cared for the people who others didn't want to care for, like sinners and publicans. People that offended the Pharisees and Sadducees of His day. He said that Christ was offended by their judging of others and that we should not judge anyone because of their race, sexual orientation, etc.
We should ask "I'm I doing enough?" and should act and not be paralyzed by fear. We are able to assess our own progress.
He then talk about the great blessings and ended by saying, "Don't you love it?".
I do love it and am very grateful for Elder Renlund's words.
Below is the video I created for the talk.
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