“April 2015 Conference Notebook,” Ensign, August 2015, 8–9

April 2015 Conference Notebook

“What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken; … whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same” (D&C 1:38).

As you review the April 2015 general conference, you can use these pages (and Conference Notebooks in future issues) to help you study and apply the recent teachings of the living prophets and apostles and other Church leaders.

The Plan of Salvation

Leaving the Garden of Eden, by Joseph Brickey

“At least four things are needed for the success of this divine plan,” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson. Find the answers in his talk, “Why Marriage, Why Family,” 50.

“The Creation of the ___________ as our dwelling place.”
“With the Fall [of Adam and Eve] came an awareness of ___________ and __________ and the God-given power to __________. Finally, the Fall brought about physical __________ needed to make our time in mortality temporary so that we would not live forever in our sins.”
“We see the role of death in our Heavenly Father’s plan, but that plan would become void without some way to overcome death in the end, both ___________ and __________. Thus, a Redeemer, the Only Begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, suffered and died to atone for Adam and Eve’s transgression, thereby providing __________ and immortality for all.”
“God ordained that men and women should marry and give birth to children, thereby creating, in partnership with God, the physical bodies that are key to the ________ of mortality and ___________ to eternal glory with Him.”

Answers: 1. earth; 2. good, evil, choose, death; 3. physical, spiritual, resurrection; 4. test, essential

Leaving the Garden of Eden, by Joseph Brickey; detail from O My Father, by Simon Dewey