Understanding

This post is part of the General Conference Odyssey. This week covers the Saturday afternoon session of the April 1999 conference.

I'm beginning to think, after all these years, that what is said in General Conference doesn't pertain so much to today (as in when it is spoken), as it pertains to our future needs, the way the world will be in the future. Or it could be that human nature never changes so each generation needs to hear the same things. Or maybe it's a combination of both.

As I listened to this session I was struck by how pertinent the subjects were to life today. 

Elder Neal A. Maxwell gave a searing address about selfishness which seems definitely more apropos today than when given.

"Cultural decline is accelerated when single-interest segments of society become indifferent to general values once widely shared. . . . Today, in place of some traditionally shared values is a demanding conformity pushed, ironically, by those who eventually will not tolerate those who once tolerated them."

Doesn't that sound a lot like today? 

During this month of Thanksgiving I'm so very grateful to the gift of fifteen men who are prophets, seers, and revelators. We are blessed to have guides to lead us to the Savior.