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Decipher the Conference Quote

Below is a quote from general conference by Elder Gary B. Sabin of the Seventy. But it’s been encrypted—each letter of the alphabet has been replaced with another. With the following hint, see if you can figure out what each letter stands for so you can see what Elder Sabin taught.

Hint: G = E (When you see a G, write an E over it.)

ZPGW ZG EIG JEIOUEYYA UW NI WNO UW EO EYY, OPGIG UQ, UW OPG QOEI ZEIQ RGIWEFDYEI, “E MUQODITEWFG UW OPG SNIFG.”

Hymn-tastic Matching!

Can you match the following lyrics with the hymns sung during this past general conference? Feel free to grab a hymnal if you get stuck.

  1. “Come, little child, and together we’ll learn.”

  2. “Through mists of darkness we must go, in peril ev’ry hour.”

  3. “And earth will appear as the Garden of Eden.”

  4. “Serving Him with cheerful hearts, we’ll grow in truth and light.”

  5. “He looks! and ten thousands of angels rejoice, and myriads wait for his word.”

  6. “Oh, what songs we then will sing to our Savior, Lord, and King!”

  7. “Battle for freedom in spirit and might.”

  8. “We are weak, but thou art able; hold us with thy pow’rful hand.”

  1. “Now Let Us Rejoice,” Hymns, no. 3

  2. “Redeemer of Israel,” Hymns, no. 6

  3. “Come, Ye Children of the Lord,”Hymns, no. 58

  4. “Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah,”Hymns, no. 83

  5. “Do What Is Right,” Hymns, no. 237

  6. “The Iron Rod,” Hymns, no. 274

  7. “Home Can Be a Heaven on Earth,”Hymns, no. 298H.

  8. “Teach Me to Walk in the Light,”Hymns, no. 304

Choral Riff

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland told us there’s a place in the choir for all of us. But one choir director didn’t have enough low voices for her choir. What activity must she engage in to get more people with low voices? To find out, complete the words and then read the underlined letters in order.

  1. Large seabird. A L __________ __________ T R O S S

  2. Use after brushing your teeth. F L O ___________ __________

  3. Instead of shaking hands, bump … __________ __________ S T S

  4. Genies grant these. W I __________ __________ E S

  5. Worn after getting married, on the finger. R __________ __________ __________

Conference Crossword

Across

  1. We can ________________the world (Elder Andersen)

  2. What Elder Bednar invited young men to be and stay

  3. “Mortal life is a period of ________________” (Elder Soares)

  4. Word #2 symbolizing our most important goals (Elder Ballard)

  5. See 11-down

  6. Tending toward light (Elder Bragg)

  7. We should study and ponder the _______ ____ __________ each day (President Monson, Sun. a.m.)

  8. Joseph Smith _____ God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ (President Monson)

  9. Our testimony of the Book of Mormon should be “firm and ________________” (President Monson, Sun. a.m.)

  10. “Be ________ _____” (fully committed) (Elder Sabin)

  11. What we should raise children to be resistant to (Sister Jones)

  12. Something whose influence over us tends to be temporary and shallow (President Uchtdorf, Sun. a.m.)

Down

  1. President Nelson and Elder Ballard encouraged us to study this document

  2. Elder Oaks spoke about the three beings in the ________________

  3. When a native tongue goes away: language ________________ (Elder Cordón)

  4. The kind of disciple we cannot be (Elder Hales)

  5. Word #1 symbolizing our most important goals (Elder Ballard)

  6. We wage a ________________ against 21-across (Sister Jones)

  7. We do not ________________ the priesthood when we are not 10-across (President Monson, priesthood)

  8. Where we should look (Elder Choi)

  9. “There is room in this ________________ for all who wish to be there” (Elder Holland)

  10. Bishop Caussé’s native country

  11. The Savior paid the price for our ________________ (President Nelson)

  12. Watchmen and others have a duty to ________________ (Elder Christofferson)

Watch and Warn

Elder Christofferson talked about the metaphor of the watchman, a person who blows a warning trumpet when he sees approaching armies (see Ezekiel 33:3–4). Imagine that a particular watchman, Larry, is keeping watch, but not just for armies—also for tornadoes, locusts, and stampedes. But to make it even harder, he’s guarding four cities (they decided that would save money). The hardest part? Instead of just a trumpet, he has four different instruments.

Over the past few days, all four above disasters have happened, and each time Larry had to warn the right city with the right instrument. See if you can figure out what he did.

  1. When the army approached, Larry played the viola.

  2. Either Utopia or Funland experienced the tornado.

  3. Utopia isn’t the city that heard the trumpet.

  4. The city of Funland heard a snare drum.

  5. Awesometown didn’t experience the locusts.

  6. Neither Coolsville nor Utopia heard the clarinet.

Hint: You’ll probably want to draw a chart. Here’s one possible layout:

Answers

Decipher the Conference Quote

When we are partially in or not in at all, there is, in the Star Wars vernacular, “a disturbance in the force.”

Hymn-Tastic Matching

  1. H

  2. F

  3. A

  4. G

  5. B

  6. C

  7. E

  8. D

Choral Riff

BASS FISHING

Conference Crossword

Across: 5.overcome 7. worthy 8. testing 9. receive 10. kind 13. heliotropic 15. Book of Mormon 17. saw 19. sure 20. all in 21. sin 22. fear Down: 1. The Living Christ 2. Godhead 3. loss 4. part-time 6. return 7. war 11. honor 12. up 14. choir 16. France 17. sins 18. warn

Watch and Warn

Coolsville—locusts, trumpet; Awesometown—stampedes, clarinet; Utopia—army, viola; Funland—tornadoes, snare drum