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“Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it Quite That Way”

“Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it Quite That Way”

Last updated on: June 7, 2019 at 1:11 pm by Dan Peterson

“Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it Quite That Way” 2019-06-07T13:11:57-06:00 Dan Peterson

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“‘Yes, It’s True, But I Don’t Think They Like to Hear it Quite That Way’: What Spencer W. Kimball Told Elaine Cannon”

Abstract: Elaine Cannon, who was general president of the Young Women some four decades ago, had an interesting conversation with President Spencer W. Kimball in 1978. According to Sister Cannon’s firsthand account, President Kimball revealed important insight into how he thought about himself as the prophet as well as how he thought leaders should talk to the general membership about that topic. Sister Cannon’s report is thus a valuable part of the historical record regarding both Spencer W. Kimball and prophets generally.

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I like this, and perhaps you will, as well. It’s less than three minutes long:

“Watch: Elder Gerrit W. Gong talks about the ‘privilege’ of seeing President Nelson minister ‘to the one'”

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“West African Leaders Praise Church Focus on Family and Humanitarian Work: Senior leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints visited several countries in West Africa last week, where they met with government representatives, including the president of the Republic of Ghana.”

And there’s this, from New Zealand:

“Lending a Helping Hand to Families Impacted by March Attacks: ‘Boxes of Love’ filled with much needed food items distributed to families”

“A man filled with the love of God,” said the Prophet Joseph Smith, “is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”

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This year’s installment of the annual conference of FairMormon will be held 7-9 August 2019, at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah. You can register now and, if you intend to do so, should do it soon:

https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/august-2019

Here’s a glimpse of what’s in store:

Angela Hallstrom, “Women’s Voices in Saints, Volume 2″

Elizabeth Kuehn, “Apostles and Their Wives, 1839-41”

Richard Terry, “The Dirt on the Ancient Inhabitants of Mesoamerica”

Matt Roper and Kirk Magleby, “Time Vindicates the Prophet”

Jasmin Rappleye, “ScripturePlus: The Future of Scripture Study”

Matthew Bowen, “Laman and Nephi as Key-Words: An Etymological, Narratological, and Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Lamanites and Nephites as Religious, Political, and Cultural Descriptors”

Jack and Jeannie Welch, “Parables of Jesus Revealing the Plan of Salvation”

Matthew C. Godfrey, “Insights from the Joseph Smith Papers into John C. Bennett’s Dismissal from the Church”

Matthew McBride, “Answering Historical Questions with Church History Topics”

Larry Morris, “The Eight Witnesses”

Ben Spackman, “A Paradoxical Preservation of Faith: How LDS Creation Accounts Compel Us to Recognize the Nature of Revelation”

René Krywult, “Fear Leads to the Dark Side: How to Navigate the Shallows of Internet (Mis)Information”

Elder Bruce C. Hafen and Sister Marie K. Hafen, “Faith is Not Blind”

Brian Hales, “Supernatural or Supernormal? Scrutinizing Secular Sources for the Book of Mormon”

Scott Hales, “The Exodus and Beyond: A Preview of Saints, Volume 2: No Unhallowed Hand”

Scott Gordon, “CES Letter: Proof or Propaganda?”

Wendy Ulrich, “Women, Men, and Priesthood Power”

I’ll be speaking, too. The title of my remarks is “Pending.” This title may confuse some, though, because Don Bradley, Elder Craig C. Christensen, and Tad Callister will also be speaking at the conference, and they’re using precisely that same title.

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