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nibbler wrote:
Roy,During the Sunday afternoon session, Soares gave a talk where he shared a story about how he lost his second child that was born prematurely (towards the end of his talk). I just wanted to give you a heads up/warning about that talk.
Thank you, Nibbler. I appreciate the heads up.
I forgot to mention… Disclaimer: I listened to all of conference, conference was on in the background while I focused on other things and my focus waxed and waned.
This conference it seemed like there were lots of talks aimed at solving the problem of toxic perfectionism. There were a few talks that took on the subject directly and a few talks that took on the subject indirectly. I think there were even a few talks on mercy.
I’d have to re-review the talks but that’s a big change from my experiences with past conferences.
I remember while I was in the MTC two apostles came to give a talk. Here’s how much you can bank on my memory, I don’t even remember who one of the two apostles was. What I do remember is that they appeared to play good apostle/cop bad apostle/cop. One apostle made me feel like exaltation was completely impossible, something I’d never achieve. The other apostle gave me a glimmer of hope that it was and to quit being so hard on myself.
These days I’m well out of reach of the culturally induced scrupulosity but this general conference felt like it was mostly in good apostle/cop territory.
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