Reading 1 – Numbers 11:4-10
Reading 2 - President Lorenzo Snow said: "I have thought sometimes that one of
the greatest virtues the Latter-day Saints could possess is gratitude to our
Heavenly Father for that which he has bestowed upon us and the path over which
he has led us. It may be that walking along in that path has not always been of
the most pleasant character; but we have afterwards discovered that those
circumstances which have been very unpleasant have often proved of the highest
advantage to us." (CR, Apr 1899)
Elder Neal A. Maxwell:
"Bearing one's testimony and expressing gratitude are like periodic
inventories; counting our blessings is both healthy and invigorating. Counting
is better than commiserating." (Deposition of a Disciple, p74)
Reading 3 - President Gordon B. Hinckley said: "Absence of gratitude is the mark of the
narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of
self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton
mischief.... Where there is gratitude, there is humility, as opposed to
pride." (CR, Oct. 1964)
Reading 4 – Numbers 11:18-20
Psalms 78:26-32
Reading 5 - President David O. McKay said: "Let us
watch ourselves and be true to the examples set by the Church and the brethren
and sisters who have sacrificed their lives, their all, to build the Church and
to advance the principles taught therein. This warning is sometimes expressed
in this way: 'Speak not against the authorities.' What does it mean. Be not a
murmurer; that is what it means. It is one of the most poisonous things that
can be introduced into the home of a Latter-day Saint--this murmuring against
presidents of stakes, high councilors, Sunday school superintendents,
presidents of high-priests' quorums, seventies, elders, priests, teachers and
deacons.... and yet because of his weakness, because, perhaps, of some little
fault that we see in an officer, we begin to murmur and find fault. Better stop
murmuring, and build up. Remember that one of the worst means of tearing down
an individual is slander. It is one of the most poisonous weapons that the evil
one uses. Backbiting and evil speaking, throw us into the class of malefactors
rather than the class of benefactors." (CR, Apr 1909, p67)
Reading 6 – Numbers 12:1-10
Reading 7 - Elder James E. Faust said: “The prophets, seers,
and revelators have had and still have the responsibility and privilege of
receiving and declaring the word of God for the world. Individual members,
parents, and leaders have the right to receive revelation for their own
responsibility but have no duty nor right to declare the word of God beyond the
limits of their own responsibility” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1989, 9; or
Ensign, Nov. 1989, 8).
President Harold B. Lee stated: "One is not truly converted until he
sees the power of God resting upon the leaders of this Church, and until it
goes down into his heart like fire." (Stand Ye In Holy Places, p63)
Reading 8 – Numbers 13:17-20
Numbers 13:25-27
Numbers 13:28-29, 31-33
Reading 9 – Numbers 14:6-9
Reading 10 - President Gordon B. Hinckley said: “Ten of the
spies were victims of their own doubts and fears. They gave a negative report
of the numbers and stature of the Canaanites. … They compared themselves as
grasshoppers to the giants they had seen in the land. … “We see some around us
who are indifferent concerning the future of this work, who are apathetic, who
speak of limitations, who express fears, who spend their time digging out and
writing about what they regard to be weaknesses which really are of no
consequence. With doubt concerning its past, they have no vision concerning its
future” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1995, 93–94; or Ensign, Nov. 1995, 71).
READ Numbers 14:36-37
