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177th Annual General Conference

The 177th General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is taking place. Please share the highlights of the talks you heard and the things you found interesting.

I was shocked to hear another person I know (besides Silvia H Allred) was called in the First Quorum of the Seventy. His name is Claudio Zivic and I also know his children. We shared more than one dance together.

Elder Holland gave a magnificent yet powerful talk on Psychological abuse and "labels" yesterday, from husbands to wives, wives to husband and parents to children. He said that what we say, when and how to our children will determine how they feel about themselves and the Faith not only they will have to the Lord but on us as parents. He mentioned we should never tell them they are "fat "dumb" "lazy" or "homely" even if we do not mean to, those words will stay in a child's mind always and it may take years for them to forgive.

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FORGIVENESS IS EXTOLLED

The healing power of forgiveness, caution on divorce and the continued opportunity for repentance were among the varied topics addressed during the final day of the 177th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Ref. deseretnews.com

177th Annual General Conference Studies Doctrine Mormon

"A general conference of the Church is a declaration to all the world that Jesus is the Christ, that He and His Father, the God and Father of us all, appeared to the boy prophet Joseph Smith in fulfillment of that ancient promise that the resurrected Jesus of Nazareth would again restore His Church on earth and again 'come in like manner as [those Judean Saints had] seen him [ascend] into heaven' (Acts 1:11). This conference and every other conference like it is a declaration that He condescended to come to earth in poverty and humility, to face sorrow and rejection, disappointment and death in order that we might be saved from those very fates as our eternity unfolds, that 'with his stripes we are healed' (Isaiah 53:5). This conference proclaims to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people the loving Messianic promise that 'his mercy endureth for ever' (see Psalm 136:1)."
(Jeffrey R. Holland, "Prophets in the Land Again," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 106)