Wonderful talk! No matter where we come from, what color of skin we have, what language we speak, etc, we are all spiritual brothers and sisters, and are children of a loving God! "...and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile." -Book of Mormon 2Nephi 26:33
Bonjour, Elder Giraud-Carrier. I was assigned to be the concluding speaker in the sacrament meeting tomorrow with this talk of yours as my topic. I watched and listened to it a few times. I pray the Spirit will touch everyone's hearts. Merci beaucoup.
All talks are good but this one phenomenal. 💕 They saved the most important talk (overall) for last in conference. I've listened to it 3 times already. This is calling people to a higher and holier way.. In other words Charity and the Golden Rule which is a higher and holier way and Christ's example. I think they saved this talk for the end of the conference (last before President Nelson) To be of more impact. We need to separate ourselves from the world, everyone. This talk is what we need to do now. Have more contact with people you're having a problem with (as a general authority said not to long ago in a conference talk) not less contact... If you have bad feelings toward them, you reach out in love to that person. Fastest way to get over hard feelings toward them. Harder times are coming.. We all need each other. The righteous will continue to become more righteous. This is the way.
I believed heavenly father directed him to give this wonderful talk. In my branch, I am one of the less financially secured, and I made the choice not to remarry after my divorce. I've been looking down victim to bad rumors, making fun of not having a husband. I hope my branch changes and they can see me as a daughter of God and not as the single mom who has no money, no brand new car, no money for vacations and who has to work 14+ hours and can't afford to stay home.
I am sorry that you are going through that . but as it had been said in the talk you are a child of God and our savior look at your heart and not your social or marital status. Stay strong in his convenance and he will keep his promises to you and yours. I love you in Jesus chrit!
Hi Carmen, Thank you for sharing your story. God will bless you for trying to follow him despite opposition, and afflictions you are going through! Keep on the covenant path, and you will be greatly blessed! God loves you very much, and you are his beautiful child! Love, -Nate
This conference was particularly painful for a recently deconstructed member whose family is still all in. Several talks were divisive and hurtful. But not this one. This talk brought me to tears. Why can we not get more and more and more of this message of love and acceptance instead of fear and control. Please, more talks like this one. It makes me sad that this was only one of a couple of moving talks from this weekend.
What amounts to fear and control for one person amount to repentance and the opportunity for growth in another. I myself am gay, and the talks by President Oaks and President Nelson were both moving for me, in ways that were inspiring and motivating, rather than debilitating and intimidating. The spirit I got from their talks was not the spirit of fear, but the spirit of Christ as he taught plainly his doctrine. That said, this is indeed a powerful talk, and perhaps you've experienced too many speeches calling for repentance, when what you needed was the reminder of the Lord's infinite love, and his care for you personally. I hope you can continue to feel that love, and I hope you can also find that message more often, and that you'll be able to see it even in places you wouldn't expect. That isn't a command or an obligation: that's just my attempt at good intentions, nothing forced or coerced, and expressing well wishes.
Hi, Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I just want to tell you that God loves you with his whole soul personally, and that you are important, you are worth Jesus Christ dying for you! He is there for you not to condemn you, but to help you to have joy! Please stay with us in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We could really use your uniqueness to help us to help others! I used to not go to church, but I am all in now! God bless you!
I was going to respond to some one else in the comments about this but, in case this is not what they are asking about I felt I should just make my own comment Why are there different races? I will preface this with hating people based on race is wrong and I do not condone racism, but I think the clear and obvious differences of race are to separate us. An obvious divisor. I think it is clearly stated in the scriptures some where that god "cursed" certain races with darker skin so that they would be known as children of such and such or whoever. Not to be hated but as a mark of their lineage. I think this is one of the few problems I have with the church. To continue the conversation... < list of Incidents and wars etc etc that led to cultural diversity and their outcome> I think ignoring the differences that the human races have is a foolish thing and historically the integration of one race into another has lead to full genocide of one of the races not some beautiful peaceful world with a "new" race. For example the northern half of Africa was white up until they were genocided by blacks but that is just such buried history I bet no one reading this has ever even heard of that. For example Greece used to be Greek as we knew them historically blonde hair blue eyes, but now Most of the inhabitants are middle eastern. South Africa used to be almost entirely white until the 70s(I think) when they let in a mass wave of black refugees, and now white people are being killed on a daily basis there just for the color of their skin. We could also talk about how China became so ethnocentric as well. Oh do you even know what the Middle eastern/Islamic Ottoman empire did to turkey when they first invaded. It was literal genocide of the native white Christians. We could talk about the Islamic/Italian caliphate.. which ended poorly for native Italians, same thing for the Islamic conquest of Spain which ended poorly for the Spanish. We could talk about the Black Jihad across as much of the pacific as they could reach in which entire tribes of people were genocided and our only records of these people are the meticulous records of the Islamic religion that enabled and supported the genocides. Or about how many people did Mongolia murder when they invaded new places... The Jewish genocide of Russians and anyone they could find during the time of the USSR. Historically speaking diversity has never helped "every one" but ended in genocide. I have not found a single instance historically of it ending any other way than genocide other than when Persia entered ancient Israel and most of the Jews were scattered. Heck I probably can not even mention the other VERY obvious person that should be on this list. I am not against peace. I do believe we are are all children of god, and I do not hate any race and think we can all get along. I will always have a VERY hard time whenever anybody pushes diversity of population WITHIN nations though as not even one example of historical evidence has ever seen it improve the society but contrarily it has been repeatedly noted as one of the conditions of the downfall of a society. Personally I think Most people miss the mark on this. Blind love is nice, but a bleeding heart leads to death by blood loss(For non native speakers Bleeding-heart is a colloquialism). Also we can look at Old Testament God's Decree of the Canaanites. In my opinion it is very clearly not god's will that "All" races should live in the same exact location just from that one example. Otherwise why do we not just spontaneously gain different colors and attributes upon birth if there was no point to different races? And then there is the medical side of it, Genetic diseases are notably higher for mixed race people, Still birth rates as well are astoundingly skewed in a terrible direction for mixed race children. I just think there would be better results if it was gods desire and personally I have actually never found god saying that it was.
If we're supposed to essentially ignore our racial identities, then why did God make us into so many different races and types of people? What was His purpose in doing so?
The existence of differences does not give us a pass to ignore the commandments of God: rather, they underscore the diversity and beauty of His creation. I think this elder's intention is not to define us most by our differences, but rather by what makes us similar, the deepest of which is the characteristic that we are all children of God. The worth of souls is great in the eyes of God.
A test to see how we will treat those different from ourselves. Just like how men and women on some levels are the most different pieces of humanity, yet they are complimentary. The differences help foster patience, understanding, and smooth our rough edges if we will let them.
The purpose of diversity in all his creation is BEAUTY! And a lesson: no matter how different or alike we are physically or otherwise we are all His children and she should love one another as He has loved us... He loves us without limitations or bounds, not based on nothing else but that we are just like a parent loves his or her child.❤
Wonderful talk! No matter where we come from, what color of skin we have, what language we speak, etc, we are all spiritual brothers and sisters, and are children of a loving God!
"...and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile."
-Book of Mormon 2Nephi 26:33
Bonjour, Elder Giraud-Carrier. I was assigned to be the concluding speaker in the sacrament meeting tomorrow with this talk of yours as my topic. I watched and listened to it a few times. I pray the Spirit will touch everyone's hearts. Merci beaucoup.
My favorite talk of all of General Conference.
4:33 to 5:57. Perfect
Thanks for sharing this testimony, Elder Giraud-Carrier we love you so much
All talks are good but this one phenomenal. 💕 They saved the most important talk (overall) for last in conference.
I've listened to it 3 times already.
This is calling people to a higher and holier way.. In other words Charity and the Golden Rule which is a higher and holier way and Christ's example.
I think they saved this talk for the end of the conference (last before President Nelson)
To be of more impact.
We need to separate ourselves from the world, everyone. This talk is what we need to do now.
Have more contact with people you're having a problem with (as a general authority said not to long ago in a conference talk) not less contact... If you have bad feelings toward them, you reach out in love to that person. Fastest way to get over hard feelings toward them.
Harder times are coming.. We all need each other.
The righteous will continue to become more righteous. This is the way.
Beautiful message!
Fabulous talk!
Absolutely!!!!
One of my favourites this Conference! Super good.
One of my most favorite talks ever, LOVE EVERYONE and be and example!
I believed heavenly father directed him to give this wonderful talk.
In my branch, I am one of the less financially secured, and I made the choice not to remarry after my divorce.
I've been looking down victim to bad rumors, making fun of not having a husband.
I hope my branch changes and they can see me as a daughter of God and not as the single mom who has no money, no brand new car, no money for vacations and who has to work 14+ hours and can't afford to stay home.
I am sorry that you are going through that . but as it had been said in the talk you are a child of God and our savior look at your heart and not your social or marital status. Stay strong in his convenance and he will keep his promises to you and yours. I love you in Jesus chrit!
Hi Carmen,
Thank you for sharing your story. God will bless you for trying to follow him despite opposition, and afflictions you are going through! Keep on the covenant path, and you will be greatly blessed! God loves you very much, and you are his beautiful child!
Love,
-Nate
Grand discourse.
Such an important message!! Absolutely wonderful talk🩵
Very very impactful talk 👏🏿
❤❤❤❤
Love this recipe for ŵorld peace.
This conference was particularly painful for a recently deconstructed member whose family is still all in. Several talks were divisive and hurtful. But not this one. This talk brought me to tears. Why can we not get more and more and more of this message of love and acceptance instead of fear and control. Please, more talks like this one. It makes me sad that this was only one of a couple of moving talks from this weekend.
What amounts to fear and control for one person amount to repentance and the opportunity for growth in another. I myself am gay, and the talks by President Oaks and President Nelson were both moving for me, in ways that were inspiring and motivating, rather than debilitating and intimidating. The spirit I got from their talks was not the spirit of fear, but the spirit of Christ as he taught plainly his doctrine. That said, this is indeed a powerful talk, and perhaps you've experienced too many speeches calling for repentance, when what you needed was the reminder of the Lord's infinite love, and his care for you personally. I hope you can continue to feel that love, and I hope you can also find that message more often, and that you'll be able to see it even in places you wouldn't expect. That isn't a command or an obligation: that's just my attempt at good intentions, nothing forced or coerced, and expressing well wishes.
Hi,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I just want to tell you that God loves you with his whole soul personally, and that you are important, you are worth Jesus Christ dying for you! He is there for you not to condemn you, but to help you to have joy! Please stay with us in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We could really use your uniqueness to help us to help others! I used to not go to church, but I am all in now!
God bless you!
💯👊🏼
Mormons don't believe that the Book of Mormon challenges or contradicts the Gospel. Rather it confirms and supplements it!
I was going to respond to some one else in the comments about this but, in case this is not what they are asking about I felt I should just make my own comment
Why are there different races? I will preface this with hating people based on race is wrong and I do not condone racism, but I think the clear and obvious differences of race are to separate us. An obvious divisor. I think it is clearly stated in the scriptures some where that god "cursed" certain races with darker skin so that they would be known as children of such and such or whoever. Not to be hated but as a mark of their lineage. I think this is one of the few problems I have with the church. To continue the conversation...
< list of Incidents and wars etc etc that led to cultural diversity and their outcome>
I think ignoring the differences that the human races have is a foolish thing and historically the integration of one race into another has lead to full genocide of one of the races not some beautiful peaceful world with a "new" race. For example the northern half of Africa was white up until they were genocided by blacks but that is just such buried history I bet no one reading this has ever even heard of that. For example Greece used to be Greek as we knew them historically blonde hair blue eyes, but now Most of the inhabitants are middle eastern. South Africa used to be almost entirely white until the 70s(I think) when they let in a mass wave of black refugees, and now white people are being killed on a daily basis there just for the color of their skin. We could also talk about how China became so ethnocentric as well. Oh do you even know what the Middle eastern/Islamic Ottoman empire did to turkey when they first invaded. It was literal genocide of the native white Christians. We could talk about the Islamic/Italian caliphate.. which ended poorly for native Italians, same thing for the Islamic conquest of Spain which ended poorly for the Spanish. We could talk about the Black Jihad across as much of the pacific as they could reach in which entire tribes of people were genocided and our only records of these people are the meticulous records of the Islamic religion that enabled and supported the genocides. Or about how many people did Mongolia murder when they invaded new places... The Jewish genocide of Russians and anyone they could find during the time of the USSR. Historically speaking diversity has never helped "every one" but ended in genocide. I have not found a single instance historically of it ending any other way than genocide other than when Persia entered ancient Israel and most of the Jews were scattered. Heck I probably can not even mention the other VERY obvious person that should be on this list.
I am not against peace. I do believe we are are all children of god, and I do not hate any race and think we can all get along. I will always have a VERY hard time whenever anybody pushes diversity of population WITHIN nations though as not even one example of historical evidence has ever seen it improve the society but contrarily it has been repeatedly noted as one of the conditions of the downfall of a society.
Personally I think Most people miss the mark on this. Blind love is nice, but a bleeding heart leads to death by blood loss(For non native speakers Bleeding-heart is a colloquialism). Also we can look at Old Testament God's Decree of the Canaanites. In my opinion it is very clearly not god's will that "All" races should live in the same exact location just from that one example.
Otherwise why do we not just spontaneously gain different colors and attributes upon birth if there was no point to different races?
And then there is the medical side of it, Genetic diseases are notably higher for mixed race people, Still birth rates as well are astoundingly skewed in a terrible direction for mixed race children. I just think there would be better results if it was gods desire and personally I have actually never found god saying that it was.
If we're supposed to essentially ignore our racial identities, then why did God make us into so many different races and types of people? What was His purpose in doing so?
The existence of differences does not give us a pass to ignore the commandments of God: rather, they underscore the diversity and beauty of His creation. I think this elder's intention is not to define us most by our differences, but rather by what makes us similar, the deepest of which is the characteristic that we are all children of God. The worth of souls is great in the eyes of God.
People created racial identies, not God
A test to see how we will treat those different from ourselves. Just like how men and women on some levels are the most different pieces of humanity, yet they are complimentary. The differences help foster patience, understanding, and smooth our rough edges if we will let them.
@@batprime1177God is the one who made us look so different from each other. The Book of Mormon even mentions a specific case of this.
The purpose of diversity in all his creation is BEAUTY! And a lesson: no matter how different or alike we are physically or otherwise we are all His children and she should love one another as He has loved us... He loves us without limitations or bounds, not based on nothing else but that we are just like a parent loves his or her child.❤