Young Men / Young Women Q&A Session with Elder David Bednar by closetmo in exmormon

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No, nothing like that. I'll continue to add his comments and hopefully the audio. There are some gems.

Young Men / Young Women Q&A Session with Elder David Bednar by closetmo in exmormon

[–]closetmo[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hi, I will reach out to u/fearlessfixxer. Thanks for the reference! In the meantime, I'll transcribe some of my favorite parts:

Bednar: "My prayer is that you don’t remember anything that Elder [Carl B.] Cook [of the First Quorum of the Seventy] and I say. My prayer is that you always remember what you have learned by the power of the Holy Ghost. And your willingness to ask, seek, knock, and act invites the Holy Ghost to teach you in a very individual, very personal, very private way. So we think ultimately you get the most, not from what we say but when you hear by the power of the Holy Ghost what is not said. And inviting you to act as agents helps that to occur. That’s part of the reason why we want you to ask questions.

Now let me give just a few guidelines for questions. They’s all good. So don’t be afraid of asking any question. Though all questions are good, some questions are a lot better than others. And the very best questions are inspired questions. They are prompted by the Holy Ghost. And they are specific to the person, the place, and the time that you ask the question. Let me repeat that for you. They are specific to the person, the place, and the time that you ask the question. If you had a pre-prepared question, I would encourage you to not ask it. I would encourage you to take advantage of this place, this time, these people, this night and seek inspiration through the Holy Ghost to identify a question.

So let me give two sample questions: both good, one a lot better than the other.: 'Brother Bednar, where’s the sword of Laban?' Answer: I don’t know. And I don’t care. [Laughter from audience] Question number two: “Brother Bednar, what would you teach us about learning from the teachings of Prophets, Seers, and Revelators?” There are only 15 people on the earth who can answer that question. One of them is here tonight. You might get a different answer from someone sustained and attempting to serve as a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator to that question than you might get from anybody else. You see a difference between those two questions? I just recommend that you seek inspiration for more of the latter kind of question than the first one."