Be Ye Therefore Perfect-Out Analysis

“Be Ye Therefore Perfect-Eventually” given by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland The bi-annual meeting of general conference has many purposes. For example, our course text teaches us that a few reasons for this worldwide meeting is for edifying the saints, sustaining leaders, conducting church business, and carrying the missionary message to the world. However, my personal favorite purpose for general conference is to help bring us closer to our Heavenly Father and our Savior. While addresses in general conference help us do this in various ways, Elder Holland’s talk “Be Ye Therefore Perfect-Eventually” was exactly the talk I needed to hear this last session of conference. He was encouraging us for personal improvement, but in a way that “doesn’t include …show more content…
He called 3 days later and told us that he had never been so low in his life, but that it taught him how much he needed the gospel and the Savior more than his alcohol dependency and told us that he had officially quit drinking alcohol. He remained sober for the weeks after as we helped him prepare for his baptism. He remained sober for the months after that as we helped him prepare for his ward mission leader calling and to receive the Melchezedic priesthood. He remained sober for the years after that as he prepared to be married and sealed to another beautiful convert in the Guatemala City temple. I witnessed a miracle as Heavenly Father helped us reconnect just a week before my mission was ending, as Jorge lived miles away from my last area and only had a construction job there. When I saw him, I did not think about the baggy clothes he was wearing in the park, I did not think about his change in baptismal date, I did not think about his flaws at all. I saw him as a growing man that is doing his best to continue walking forward every day, and I received a witness that that is how our Heavenly Father views him. And a reminder that that is how He views all of His