Sacrament Meeting Talks

[The Rambam]

We should have a thread where we post our sacrament meeting talks. I would love to hear many of your talks.

I spoke last Sunday and it is actually the first time I have typed my whole talk out in full, so I could actually contribute an effort.

Would people be interested in this type of thread? How many of you would be willing to post talks you have given?

[SeattleUte]

We should have a thread where we post our sacrament meeting talks. I would love to hear many of your talks.

I spoke last Sunday and it is actually the first time I have typed my whole talk out in full, so I could actually contribute an effort.

Would people be interested in this type of thread? How many of you would be willing to post talks you have given?

What a great idea. Seriously; awesome. May I post virtual talks?

[Paperback Writer]

How about we save bandwidth and just paste links to the GC talk we got assigned. I heart correlation.

I remember when I was depressed Christmas morning of 1981 when my major gift was new scriptures and not a BYU Jim McMahon jersey. My Dad tried to cheer me up: "They're not just scriptures, they're the new cross-referenced, indexed scriptures! Giving a talk will be so much easier now."

Now we are expected to regurgitate a GC talk. The best part is when the youth speaker gives a better talk than the visiting high counciler while both are based on the same GC talk.

I miss the days when speakers had fewer restrictions. Like when I left on my mission and I was expecting a talk by my Mom (back when there were actual missionary farewells) about how I was such a great or unique kid. Nope, none of that BS. She gave an excellent talk about how the light of Christ was prevelent through all ages when righteous people sought after truth with numerous references to the renaissance.

[Indy Coug]

I save all of my talks on the computer so I can use that material for future speaking engagements. Won't be sharing them here, however.

[eldiente]

I miss the days when speakers had fewer restrictions. Like when I left on my mission and I was expecting a talk by my Mom (back when there were actual missionary farewells) about how I was such a great or unique kid. Nope, none of that BS. She gave an excellent talk about how the light of Christ was prevelent through all ages when righteous people sought after truth with numerous references to the renaissance.

Maybe you weren't such a great or unique kid?

[Blueintheface]

I save all of my talks on the computer so I can use that material for future speaking engagements. Won't be sharing them here, however.

I don't like getting correlated either.

[Moliere]

How about we save bandwidth and just paste links to the GC talk we got assigned. I heart correlation..

Seriously, this is lazy bishopricing to just assign out conference talks.

[happyone]

to late, I gave my once every 10 yrs sacrament mgt talk last week. At my age one would think I would have learned when the Bishop open's up the conversation with "Are you going to be in town next Sunday?" I would answer
"I am sorry we will be out of town." but I didn't and was honest and said yes.

FTR my talk was on Priesthood service.

[Indy Coug]

My last talk was when I had already moved away from PA for my new job. My family was still living in PA while trying to find housing, so the bishop emailed me to speak on Father's Day since I happened to be flying in for the weekend.

[Paperback Writer]

Maybe you weren't such a great or unique kid?

I would be the first to admit such. But I had been lead to believe that it was a mother's duty to lie to the congregation at a missionary's farewell. I was the last to enter the mission field from my age group and all the other guys had teary eyed tributes from their mother of their missionary son's greatness.

On the upside, my Mom left about 10 minutes for my Dad and me to talk. I had less than five minutes to give my talk. I started out by quoting the first few words of the first verse of the BOM and joked that my goodly parents are obvious in that they took almost all of the sacrament meeting time. So I basically thanked my parents for everything, expressed my love for my family, talked about how I was thankful to my YM leaders who mentored me as well as my non-LDS friends for their camaraderie, stated how I was looking forward to serving the Lord, and closed with my testimony. Probably the best talk I've ever given.

EDIT: Also should mention that a dozen of my non-LDS friends came to my farwell. Some didn't have traditional LDS attire, a couple had never attended church before. So they decided to attend the meeting wearing jeans and a letterman's jacket and they all sat on the back row. This was a surprise to me.

[Omaha 680]

Seriously, this is lazy bishopricing to just assign out conference talks.

It's actually very common. Our Stake Presidency seems to favor this method in the HC assignments and it has trickled down to the ward level. I avoid it whenever possible. I usually assign a topic and then ask how much direction they would like. It depends on the person what they will ask for. The best talks are those who go it alone.

[LA Ute]

It's actually very common. Our Stake Presidency seems to favor this method in the HC assignments and it has trickled down to the ward level. I avoid it whenever possible. I usually assign a topic and then ask how much direction they would like. It depends on the person what they will ask for. The best talks are those who go it alone.

We get most of our talk ideas from GC but don't want people just re-hashing a GC topic. Sometimes we just say, "Pick your topic, just make it scriptural." Only for members we trust not to talk about the location of Kolob, however.

[eldiente]

I would be the first to admit such. But I had been lead to believe that it was a mother's duty to lie to the congregation at a missionary's farewell. I was the last to enter the mission field from my age group and all the other guys had teary eyed tributes from their mother of their missionary son's greatness.

On the upside, my Mom left about 10 minutes for my Dad and me to talk. I had less than five minutes to give my talk. I started out by quoting the first few words of the first verse of the BOM and joked that my goodly parents are obvious in that they took almost all of the sacrament meeting time. So I basically thanked my parents for everything, expressed my love for my family, talked about how I was thankful to my YM leaders who mentored me as well as my non-LDS friends for their camaraderie, stated how I was looking forward to serving the Lord, and closed with my testimony. Probably the best talk I've ever given.

EDIT: Also should mention that a dozen of my non-LDS friends came to my farwell. Some didn't have traditional LDS attire, a couple had never attended church before. So they decided to attend the meeting wearing jeans and a letterman's jacket and they all sat on the back row. This was a surprise to me.

That actually does sound unique. Sorry for the jab.

[The Rambam]

I save all of my talks on the computer so I can use that material for future speaking engagements. Won't be sharing them here, however.

Why not?

[DrumNFeather]

My last talk was when I had already moved away from PA for my new job. My family was still living in PA while trying to find housing, so the bishop emailed me to speak on Father's Day since I happened to be flying in for the weekend.

I'm on the schedule to speak in November. Mark your calendars.