Monday, 4/22/24 hello Brandon! 12:12pm Barbara Wilburn is my Italian indexing companion that I believe HF blessed me with in 2022. But she is gung ho over the top! @ I was planning on fasting Saturday night to honor Gideon Maxwell’s baby blessing and because I had missed our ward fast day the 14. But I felt so grumpy Saturday night that I prayed about it and told HF I was going to eat afterall. Why so grumpy? Because I didn’t like her telling me to watch a JaredH podcast/video and listen to an Enzio GC talk. I like to study the things I choose, not the stuff she keeps pushing me to do! @Nevertheless, I did her assignments/requests and felt like a martyr. @ As I did those two I thought: I’ll show her. I will paste tons of visuals from JaredH and I will highlight comments from Enzio and I will post all the GC addresses he ever gave! @ guess what she did? You won’t believe this. She listened to every Enzio talk and commented! She did JaredH again and added a visual I hadn’t posted/pasted! So just for fun here is the exchange minus the visual aides:
V, you owe it to yourself to go back now and listen (again, I would think for you since you’ve listened to so many Conference talks) to his talk “University for Eternal Life” GC Apr 1989. It was the talk that eventually led to me finding out about his book. It has had a positive impact on my life. (Here I am putting pressure on you, again. <smile>) I will.-v _DONE____
He wants us to know the consequences of the fact that this life is a probationary time,
We are here to be tested. -v
We may observe that for some time we are not really happy, that we must constantly force ourselves to smile, or perhaps that we are in a state close to depression.
He accepts depression as real.
After Alma had spoken about repentance and desires of righteousness until the end of life, he said, “They … are redeemed of the Lord; … for behold, they are their own judges.” (Alma 41:7.)
We judge ourselves by what we choose to believe and do.
Nobody will ever be able to understand or even to accept principles of truth unless he or she, to some degree, has developed a painful awareness of the dimensions of self-honesty.
Absolute.
WHAT PORTIONS OF HIS TALK SPOKE TO YOUR SOUL? ____________
I will listen to it again and respond (see below). So glad you took the time to listen! And also thanks for the list of all his talks. I will listen to them.
Listened to these Sat pm as I indexed Nascitas in La Spezia. Different form, not too difficult though. Parents names are written given name first then surname.
Here are all his GC addresses:
2000
October 2000
Freedom “from” or Freedom “to” About the Plan, the Restoration, being bound by the sacred covenant of baptism and thereby finding true freedom. Very sweet testimony.
1993
October 1993
Truth Is the Issue Let us heed the voice of warning and embrace truth so we can stand blameless at the last day. Quietly powerful!
1989
April 1989
University for Eternal Life Ah, THE BEST!
1984
October 1984
The Joy of the Penetrating Light Speaks of himself just after his baptism, in the 3rd person. Touching!
1982
April 1982
Love Is the Power That Will Cure the Family He repeats, he who deserves love the least needs it the most. Very humble talking about an experience with his son.
1980
April 1980
Do We All Believe in the Same God? Another simple but strong testimony of the Gospel. Warns of the adversary and of his deceptions among men. He is more at home speaking this time.
1977
October 1977
They Didn’t Give Up This is his simple testimony just after being called as a Seventy, thankful that the missionaries didn’t give up on him. Very humble.
FEBusche-After I listened to his talk again:
Understanding this, it seems to be imperative to ask ourselves these questions: How are we really doing?
We need to know! How are we really, truly doing?
…perhaps we have even lost to some degree an understanding of the importance of keeping a covenant with exactness. If so, we are in a dangerous state. We must become aware of it.
Again, we need to know, we must become aware. And why? Because…
Although we might deceive others, we cannot deceive ourselves, and we cannot deceive the Lord.
It’s like Huck Finn saying, “You can’t pray a lie.” We might fool other people, but we can’t fool ourselves and we can’t fool the Lord.
“For our words will condemn us, yea, all our works will condemn us; we shall not be found spotless; and our thoughts will also condemn us;
Even our thoughts will condemn us! Not just what we do, but what we think!
My dear brothers and sisters, the Lord does not want us to become aware of our state of nothingness and misery only at the Day of Judgment. Now and every day in our mortal lives, He wants to sharpen our awareness, that we may become our own judges, as He calls us to a continuous process of repentance.
The Lord wants to help us become our own judges so we can make the necessary changes. This reminds me of Elder Kearon, He is not putting up roadblocks! He wants to help us.
We ourselves and the Lord are the only ones who really know us. We do not even know ourselves unless we have learned to walk the lonely and most challenging road toward self-honesty, as constantly prompted by the Spirit.
“The lonely and most challenging road toward self-honesty” Really, just this whole talk...
This is the sacrifice we have to learn to offer. Nobody will ever be able to understand or even to accept principles of truth unless he or she, to some degree, has developed a painful awareness of the dimensions of self-honesty. Without the capability to recognize truth, we will not be really free: we will be slaves to habits or prejudices heavily covered with excuses. But learning to become aware of the depth of the dimensions of truth will make us free. We cannot remove a stumbling block unless we see it first. We cannot grow unless we know what is holding us back.
He states it so plainly, “a painful awareness of the dimensions of self-honesty.” How can we change unless we learn how to recognize what needs to change? By facing the truth about ourselves, and making the necessary changes, we can be truly free!
My dear brothers and sisters, I know of no better place where we can grow in the understanding of the principles of honesty than in the house of the Lord. I know of no better place to learn to grow in the dimensions of becoming our own judge than in the house of the Lord. We have reason to rejoice because the understanding that this life is a time for men to prepare to meet God has come to us while we still have time to consider the consequences of this message. We are still alive, and our probationary state is not yet over.
We are still alive! We still have time! So, I love going to the temple. I try to listen to the Spirit and learn what I need to do. Who I need to help. How to help. What I need to stop or start doing. Try to be honest with myself and not rationalize or justify my actions, but really dig deep to know if I’m on the right track. And this talk reminds me that this is one important reason I need to go as often as I can. And I am very grateful to have a temple so close and for the opportunity to attend often!
Elder Busche just has a way of touching my heart. Such a sweet soul. Perhaps it is his accent! ha
Sat. 5pm B, I love his visuals in this talk. He knows how to contrast better than anyone I know.
JHalverson-He has been at this for quite a while! I love that his study of Proving Contraries originated with a simple quote by the Prophet Joseph. I also love that this talk began with a nod to Pres. Benson! Subsequent leaders state it this way: Disagree without being disagreeable. Teach law in love. (I’m sure there are more.)
Thanks for the photos! I captured some of the same ones. (I copied your photos to another file so you can delete them anytime.) He is deeper than might first appear. It is apparent he has worked long and hard to come to the knowledge and conclusions he has now. I will listen to this talk again. I heard another one from several years back along the same lines. I appreciate his candor and his striving to seriously figure all of this out. Most of us just choose one side or another and at times feel trapped by that choice. I think what I take from this is that it is fluid. Let’s keep the door open and keep working at it. Maybe we’ll be inspired to do something that will help. But if we slam the door shut, what good can we do?
This visual got my attention!! YIKES!! Be careful little sheep!!!
If you have paved the way with disharmony…
Yes this got my attention as well. Not a pretty sight!
The hardest place: Proving
Contraries Yes, finding what he calls the Celestial Center!
This is profound.
b-Usually harmony. To keep the door open. Except in the case of suicide. Heavy!
V, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! IT HELPS TO SHARE. GOD IS GOOD. WE ARE BLESSED! -B
4/22 My my my. . . you really go to town! Thank you. Well it can be carried to extremes. My bad. (You’re easy to talk to!)
I had 13 little cousins in my son’s baby blessing sacrament meeting yesterday. Even my oldest, inactive son supported the family! Lincoln, his son did not tell the truth about his reading Saturday. Still dealing with that. I went to his house to figure/work the reading time out last night. Glad I did. -v
The blessing sounds so nice, happy when family comes who don’t normally come. Hard when our grandkids mess up. We just want to love them, not correct them. At least I do.
How fun that you tried LaSpezia.
Monday noon. Hey V, please delete all this, I got carried away a bit. Again. Sorry!
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