Decide where we're going

Both of the quotes for tonight's reading are repeats. One is from Elder Donald L. Staheli and the other is from Elder Paul V. Johnson.

Elder Johnson exhorts us to make General Conference a priority in our life. Read & listen to the talks, in other words, study them. I need to do a better job of this. I tried reading one of the conference issues of the Ensign last year & didn't make it. You can't just sit down & read one of those issues, one talk right after the other.

Elder Staheli advises "daily obedience to gospel principles is the only sure way to eternal happiness." It makes me wonder how someone can be happy if they willfully choose to disobey God's commandments.

Decide now

to follow the Savior's teachings.

"We can lay down our lives for those we love not by physically dying for them but rather by living for them — giving of our time; always being present in their lives; serving them; being courteous, affectionate, and showing true love for those of our family and to all men — as the Savior taught."

--Elder Claudio R. M. Costa, "Don't Leave for Tomorrow What You Can Do Today", October 2007 General Conference

and ...

"Decide now to make general conference a priority in your life. Decide to listen carefully and follow the teachings that are given. Listen to or read the talks more than once to better understand and follow the counsel. By doing these things, the gates of hell will not prevail against you, the powers of darkness will be dispersed from before you, and the heavens will shake for your good."

--Elder Paul V. Johnson, "The Blessings of General Conference", Ensign, Nov. 2005, 50