Quorum

I like some of the comments.

So the Deseret News spoke with each of the members of the Quorum of Twelve, as well as the First Presidency, and just kind of asked them about what their impressions of President Oaks were.

And so we have a number of them here.

President Eyring, as well as D. Todd Christofferson, called him fearless and focused.

So Bishop W. Christopher Waddell, he spoke during a devotional address at BYU Hawaii this last week.

And what he talked about is he spent a lot of time talking about... what the presiding bishopric does.

And we know that the presiding bishopric is responsible for a lot of the temporal needs of the church and kind of taking care of the day-to-day business, temporal business of the church, while the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency worries about the spiritual business of the church.

So one of the things that the First Presidency does, or not First Presidency, that the presiding bishopric does is caring for those in need.

And then verse eight, "Be not afraid of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee," sayeth the Lord.

It was President Packer, and he was just speaking at a CES fireside to the, to religion teachers, right? And he just made the statement that we as, as members of Quorum of the 12 are not afraid in this way.

We're not afraid of the people.

[laughs] Like, we are speaking for the Lord.

It's really been a blessing for me in my life to, to have that opportunity to, uh, be a very small witness to his ministry as an apostle, and I'm grateful for that.

I w- I would say when I, I wasn't necessarily thinking of, uh, my parents specifically, but I could give you an example.

Long before they were ever, uh, long before my father was ever in the, um, Quorum of the Seventy, was ever a- an apostle, my parents were very focused on teaching us to know and follow the counsel of the living prophets.

And, uh, w- in one short example I give was we, they served as mission leaders in Bordeaux, France when I was a teenager in high school.

And I mean, it's teaching overall, and we can use these principles overall, but I don't think we maybe talk enough specifically about how do we teach general conference teaching.

and in general conference in Relief Society and Elders Quorum and in our homes as well.

And I think that's, I think we, in fact, we had someone not too, not too recently ago say, hey, you guys, you know, that's great.

But can you talk more about Relief Society and Elders Quorum? And how do we do that specifically? So that's what we're going to do today.

We just had general conference a week ago as of the post, the publication of this post.

and let's talk about what kind of things we learn from General Conference as far as teaching and how do we teach General Conference overall.

And so it's mostly primary teachers, but not all primary teachers.

And they take a talk a week, and one person takes a talk, and they'll lead a discussion group for that.

Third Sunday, 4.

Last Sunday Young Women, and 4.

Last Sunday Aaronic Priesthood Quorums.