Elder Kevin S. Hamilton,, a Common Authority Seventy, spoke throughout the Saturday afternoon session of April 2022 normal convention. He taught how the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes it attainable to beat weaknesses and grow to be extra like Heavenly Father. The next is a abstract of what he stated.
Notable quotes from Elder Hamilton
“Whereas it’s certainly good to be genuine, we ought to be genuine to our actual, true selves, as little kids of God with a divine nature and future to grow to be like Him.” “Humility, coupled with religion in Jesus Christ, will enable us to entry the enabling energy of His grace and the fullness of blessings obtainable due to His Atonement.” “As little kids of a loving Father in Heaven, we now have the facility inside us to vary.”
Abstract of Elder Hamilton’s discuss
One in every of Devil’s best lies is that women and men can not change and shouldn’t change. Nevertheless, to be able to be genuine to “our actual, true selves, as little kids of God with a divine nature and future… then we are going to all want to vary.”
The Lord operates via circumstances, or “if-then” statements. He has taught that “as we first change our fallen natures, our weak spot, then we will change our behaviors.”
Humility and religion in Jesus Christ are requisites to accessing the enabling energy of His grace, which makes it attainable to beat all obstacles, all challenges and all weaknesses.
“The Savior labored out His infinite and everlasting Atonement in order that we may in truth repent, change and grow to be higher. We are able to truly be born once more. We are able to overcome habits, addictions and even the ‘disposition to do evil.’”
Turning into like Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ occurs via change or repentance. “We grow to be new, clear, completely different and we merely proceed to work at it each day. Typically it could really feel like two steps ahead and one step again, however we proceed to humbly transfer ahead in religion.”
About Elder Hamilton
- Elder Kevin S. Hamilton was sustained as a Common Authority Seventy in April 2013. He has additionally served as Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission president from 2003 to 2006, stake president, excessive councilor, bishop and full-time missionary within the Switzerland Geneva Mission.
- He was a co-founder and associate in a enterprise capital agency and likewise labored within the telecommunications trade in a number of firms, serving as CEO a lot of occasions.
- Elder Hamilton was born on March 26, 1955, in Wenatchee, Washington. He married Claudia Keysor on July 27, 1978, within the Los Angeles California Temple. They’re the mother and father of six kids.
Elder Hamilton within the information
- Elder Hamilton, who’s the manager director of the Household Historical past Division, introduced with Elder David A. Bednar and Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; President Camille N. Johnson, Main normal president; and Sister Reyna I. Aburto, second counselor within the Reduction Society normal presidency, throughout the 2022 Temple and Household Historical past Management Instruction on the advantages of temple service and household historical past work and launched on March 3.
- “Connection is that this highly effective factor,” Elder Hamilton stated of RootsTech 2022’s theme #ChooseConnection. He was one of many FamilySearch leaders who hosted two occasions on the World Expo in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that coincided with the RootsTech 2022 household historical past convention on March 3-5.
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