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Saratoga Springs Utah Stake

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September 2025 Stake Conference 

Invitations and Promised Blessings

President Erickson

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President Erickson warns against the danger of becoming casual with sacred things and calls for greater intentionality in worship, prayer, and reconciliation to counterbalance the adversary.

Saturday Evening Session
INVITATIONS

  • Be more intentional in your worship of Jesus Christ

  • Avoid being casual with prayer, the sacrament, the Sabbath, and temple worship

  • Recommit to using reverent language in prayer -thee, thou, thine

  • Be reconciled to your brother before coming to the Lord

  • Ask yourself who needs your forgiveness, so you can worship with a whole heart

  • Intentionality with sacred things will counterbalance the adversary's efforts, and attacks in our lives

  • Elevating the language of our prayers brings a connection to heaven, softens our hearts, and makes us more able to forgive, and seek forgiveness

  • If we are first reconciled to our brother, the Lord will receive us with full purpose of heart

  • Reconciliation with God, and with each other, will bring tranquility to the soul

PROMISED BLESSINGS
from the Presidency

An invitation for priesthood holders to magnify their responsibilities, to bless God's children by bringing the Atonement of Jesus Christ into their lives.

Priesthood Session

  • Consider your priesthood responsibilities and duties and magnify them

INVITATIONS
PROMISED BLESSINGS

  • By magnifying your priesthood duties, the Savior's life will be magnified in the lives of all those for whom you have responsibility

An invitation to pursue the peace that only comes from Jesus Christ, especially in response to recent tragedies, and to become peacemakers by loving our enemies and honoring our covenants.

Sunday General Session

  • Pursue the peace that can only be obtained through an intentional focus on Jesus Christ

  • Turn your heart over to Him and rid yourself of anything that is keeping you from full access to His love and mercy

  • Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you

  • Forgive

  • Choose to demonstrate "mountaintop discipleship" by being willing to go to whatever length is asked to turn your heart over to Him

  • Intentionally seek Jesus through your highs and lows by pursuing the covenant path

  • Pursue peace with more intentionality

  • Stand up and be accounted as a believer who endures in Christ

INVITATIONS

  • If you forgive, "ye shall be forgiven"

  • If you love your enemies and do good, your "reward is great in heaven"

  • All those who have made a covenant with God have access to a special kind of love and mercy

  • As we walk the covenant path, we find "deeply satisfying and lasting joy"

  • We find a refuge from the storms of life in our covenants, especially in His holy house

  • Those who make covenants in temples "shall not be beaten down by the storm at the last day"

  • Lasting peace is found only as we extend peace and mercy to others and humbly receive them ourselves through a deliberate focus on Jesus Christ

PROMISED BLESSINGS

President Peterson

The Savior, the Son of God, possesses the power to transform the dark places in our hearts with His light. But we must actively look unto Him, not just at Him, and then become peacemakers for others.

Saturday Evening Session
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  • Look unto the Savior in every thought; doubt not, fear not

  • Reorient your relationship with the Savior, which may require moving to a new spiritual place or removing yourself physically from environments where the Spirit cannot exist

  • Be peacemakers: love peace, seek peace, create peace, and cherish peace

  • Take the necessary steps to look unto the Savior and embrace the power of His peace

INVITATIONS

  • The Savior has the power to illuminate the dark corners, and recesses of our hearts

  • If we look unto the Savior, He can dispel our doubts, fears, shame, remorse, hurt, betrayal, bitterness, and anger

  • He promises to bring peace to our hearts

PROMISED BLESSINGS
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President Woodbury

Emphasized the importance of avoiding spiritual laziness by intentionally creating moments of stillness to connect with God and hear the Holy Ghost amidst the noise of life.

Saturday Evening Session

  • Intentionally create space to commune and covenant with God

  • Practice stillness through un-rushed prayers, daily scripture study, and quiet moments without other noise, such as music, while driving

INVITATIONS
PROMISED BLESSINGS

  • Being still and trusting in the Lord will bring comfort and a reminder that He is in control

  • As we calm our hearts by being still, we can be sure that He will deliver us in all things

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