This biographical sketch, "Elder Dallin H. Oaks: 'It Begins by Following
the Other Apostles'” was written by Don L. Searle and appeared in the Ensign,
June 1984, page 15.
If there had been a vacancy on the United States Supreme
Court this year, Justice Dallin Harris Oaks of the Utah Supreme Court might
have been a candidate to fill it. After all, he has been considered for
such a position before. So when the Washington Post’s Supreme Court
reporter learned of Elder Oaks’ new call as a member of the LDS Church’s
Council of the Twelve, he dutifully telephoned to ask whether this meant
that Dallin Oaks could no longer be eligible for a position on the highest
court in the land.
Yes, Elder Oaks explained patiently, it certainly
meant that.
But the court position is also a lifetime calling.
Is it not also a very important way to serve?
Indeed it is, Elder Oaks affirmed, but it does not
take precedence over the service it will now be his opportunity to give.
To those who may understand the impact of his calling
as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, he adds, “I welcome it. I’m thrilled
with the call, and eager to serve.”
Many who understood the significance of the calling
were also quick to telephone, expressing their love. Several members of
the Council of the Twelve called to welcome him to the quorum.
It is one measure of the man, perhaps, that he reacted
with the same gracious attitude toward all callers, whether another member
of the Twelve or the aged best friend of his mother.
But then, “he is always gracious to everybody, no
matter who they are,” says Janet Calder, who was his secretary while he
was president of Brigham Young University from 1971 to 1980.
Gracious, yet candid. Not extroverted, but definitely
enthusiastic. Once, she recalls, he had been hosting a group of visitors
when, during a lull, the conversation turned to other kinds of educational
experiences. In response to a comment, the university president remarked
that he had never received any training in developing a positive mental
attitude. “For Heaven’s sake, don’t!” one of the visitors commented. “If
you had any more positive mental attitude, you’d be unbearable.”
“He’s very organized. He loves to work,” Sister Calder
continues. There’s no denying it. Elder Oaks has often quoted his motto,
“Work first, play later.” His family jokes that it is really “Work first,
play never.”
“I don’t do anything for fun. I just have fun at
what I do,” he explains.
“Time is a stewardship, and my goal is simply not
to waste any,” he told an Ensign interviewer in 1981. (See “Dallin H. Oaks:
The Disciplined Edge,” Ensign, April 1981, pp. 32-37.)
Elder Oaks was born in Provo, Utah, 12 August 1932,
and grew up a worker. He began working for pay only three or four years
after his father died, to help his widowed mother. Dr. Lloyd Oaks’ death
(of tuberculosis) left his young widow Stella with three children: Dallin,
eight at the time, and the oldest; Merrill, now a Provo, Utah, ophthalmologist;
and Evelyn, now Mrs. H. Ross Hammond, of Salt Lake City.
“I was blessed with an extraordinary mother,” Elder
Oaks recalls. “She surely was one of the many noble women who have lived
in the latter days.” He lauds her as a woman of “great faith,” a “very
skilled parent,” and a woman possessed of great natural executive ability.
Many outside the family would agree. Before her death in 1980, Stella Oaks
was known as a force for good in Provo, in both Church and civic service.
“She gave me a great deal of responsibility and freedom.
She encouraged me to have a job,” Elder Oaks explains. From the time he
first worked for pay, “at eleven or twelve,” he has been continuously employed.
That first job was sweeping out a radio repair shop.
He had to learn to test the radio tubes he found on the floor, to find
out which were good, and that led to an interest in radio. He threw himself
into study with characteristic intensity. Before he was sixteen, he had
obtained a first-class radiotelephone license, which allowed him to operate
a commercial radio station’s transmitter, and found a job in radio. Station
managers liked to hire a “combination man”—an engineer who could double
as an announcer—“but my voice hadn’t changed,” he recalls, laughing. Before
long, however, that change took care of itself, and he was working regularly
as an announcer.
It was while he was announcing high school basketball
games as a college freshman that his wife first met him. June Dixon was
still attending high school in nearby Spanish Fork when someone introduced
her to him at a game.
They were married on 24 June 1952, while both were
attending BYU. It was the height of the Korean War, and he was in the Utah
National Guard, expecting his unit to be called to active duty at any time.
But while other, closely related units went, his was never activated. At
that time, a limited number of young men were being called on missions
because of the war, and Dallin was not among them. But later he was stake
mission president in Chicago. “And he was a good one,” his wife comments.
She learned early to recognize his capacity for work.
Throughout his undergraduate career at BYU, he worked thirty hours a week
at the radio station. Toward the end of his time there, he also held a
second job, as office manager for a moving company.
After he received a bachelor’s degree in accounting,
it was on to the University of Chicago Law School. (By now the Oaks family
included daughters Sharmon and Cheri.) He borrowed money for school, and
threw his energy into studying. He graduated with honors and edited the
school’s prestigious law review in his final year. “When Dallin was in
law school, he would be gone every day from seven in the morning till eleven
at night,” except Sunday, June Oaks says. She recalls hearing him say:
“There are a lot of guys over there at the law school who are smarter than
I, but none works any harder.”
“Those were hard times,” she reflects. And yet she
managed to avoid the mistake of self-pity. She accepted the necessity of
being self-sufficient and developing her own interests.
Dallin Oaks’ industry and scholarship won him the
opportunity to serve as law clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren of the
United States Supreme Court after graduation. A year later, when he completed
the clerkship, he returned to Chicago to enter private practice.
Their son Lloyd had been born during Dallin’s last
year of law school. Another son, Dallin, and next-to-last daughter, TruAnn,
were also born during the family’s years in Chicago.
Those years brought Dallin opportunities for great
growth in Church service. He was called to be stake mission president for
the Chicago Stake in 1961. His law practice had him working nights, and
he wondered how he would be able to fulfill the responsibilities of the
new calling as well, Sister Oaks recalls, but he took it on faith. As he
committed himself to the calling, the way was opened many times for him
to finish his legal work early, or to achieve more than he thought was
possible in the time allotted.
In 1961, the opportunity came to join the University
of Chicago law faculty. He accepted the position, for the reward and challenge
it offered.
In 1963, he was called as second counselor in the
presidency of the Chicago South Stake. He served with President Lysle R.
Cahoon and John Sonnenberg, first counselor.
All three have since served as Regional Representatives of the Twelve.
Dallin Oaks approached his Church assignment
with the usual vigor. Brother Sonnenberg, currently Regional Representative
in the Chicago and Des Moines Regions, reflects that his companion in the
stake presidency reserved Sundays for the Lord, but not in some “academic
sense”; it was obvious that his service and his study of the scriptures
were part of a genuine effort to learn of God.
Those were years when President Oaks had to spread
his time among many assignments. One of them was chairman of the University
of Chicago Disciplinary Committee, which resolved charges against students
involved in a seventeen-day sit-in at the school’s administration building
during February of 1969. His fairness and diplomacy in handling the disciplinary
action won admiration from students, faculty members, and the community.
By 1970, he had become well-known in his profession,
having served as assistant state’s attorney for Cook County, Illinois,
during the summer of 1964; as associate dean and acting dean of the law
school; and as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School
during the summer of 1968. He won praise for service as the legal counsel
to the Bill of Rights Committee for the Illinois Constitutional Convention
in 1970. During a period in 1970 and 1971, he served as executive director
of the American Bar Foundation.
When Brother Sonnenberg was called as president of
the Chicago South Stake in 1970, he chose Dallin Oaks as his first counselor.
But it was not to be a long association. With the spiritual insight that
stake presidents often have, he recalls, “When Ernest Wilkinson retired
(as president of BYU), I knew instantly that Dallin Oaks would be called.”
President Oaks was recognized for many things while
serving at BYU, but his particular emphasis was on academic excellence.
He also became nationally prominent for his opposition to federal government
intrusion in private education. He was seen as a spokesman for private
colleges and universities. For three years he was president of the American
Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Honors and opportunities continued to come. Service
to the Public Broadcasting Service led eventually to his role as chairman
of its board of directors. His resume—the list of advisory and executive
posts, books and publications authored, and professional work—runs to pages.
Jeffrey R. Holland, now president of BYU,
characterizes his predecessor as a man with “a remarkable blend of qualities
and strengths,” a man whose “superb analytical judgment is enhanced not
only by legal training, but, more important, by unerring instinct.”
After Dallin Oaks left the BYU president’s office,
even after he was sworn into the Utah Supreme Court on 1 January 1981,
there were opportunities to run for high office and offers of important
federal jobs. He elected to pass them by because, “I can’t think of anything
in public life I’d rather do than be a judge.”
But some types of service have a higher priority.
In 1971, a telephone call from President Harold B.
Lee, then First Counselor in the First Presidency, had taken him to
BYU, changing the course of his life. On the evening of April 6 this year,
[1984] there was another telephone call, from President Gordon
B. Hinckley, then Second Counselor in the First Presidency. Dallin Oaks
willingly took yet another new direction in his life. “Just as service
in the Church is not sought, it is not turned down,” he says.
While president of BYU, his role as chief administrator
for a major university may have momentarily overshadowed the spiritual
nature of the man. But those who were close to him could see it. “Dallin
is just simply one who walks constantly depending on the Spirit of the
Lord,” comments Rex Lee, solicitor general of the United States and former
dean of BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. President Oaks, he notes, was
never too concerned about the “trappings of status,” nor one to flaunt
his formidable abilities. “He is the classic example of humility. He is
genuinely not taken with himself.”
For those who heard him speak at BYU, there was ample
evidence of Dallin Oaks’ personal focus on gospel principles. He emphasized
the close connection between spirituality and learning, with spirituality
necessarily predominant. He spoke often of morality, repentance, and revelation.
Honesty and integrity, in all phases of life, were major themes.
“If I think of one word that epitomizes my father,
I think of integrity. I’ve always known he would never do anything that
wasn’t above reproach,” his daughter Sharmon (now Mrs. Jack Ward) says.
She remembers that he once chided her for trying to remove an uncanceled
stamp from an envelope which came in the mail, so the stamp could be used
again.
Sharmon entered college as a freshman the year her
father became president of BYU. Frequently, teachers would come to her
name on the roll, then ask, “Are you related to … um. …” No one ever finished
that sentence, she recalls, laughing.
The BYU years were less busy than Chicago had been,
Lloyd recalls. His father was home much more. “Just about every Saturday
we’d pick up some night crawlers in Springville and head up the canyon
to fish in the Spanish Fork River.” After a while, Lloyd (who later graduated
from BYU with a degree in geology) would tire of fishing and collect or
throw rocks, but his father would keep at it. That, says June Oaks, is
typical. “If he fishes, he fishes with the same intensity that’s there
when he goes after his casebooks.”
Lloyd, who is now studying law at Northern Illinois
University in De Kalb, was not surprised by his father’s call as a General
Authority. “All through his life he’s been very close to the Spirit.” One
night Lloyd had asked to use the car to go to a party. He was getting ready
to back out of the driveway when his father came out and asked him not
to go, explaining that he felt impressed that it would not be wise. They
learned later that another car had rolled off the road Lloyd would have
taken, and felt the impression must have been a warning.
Sharmon also speaks of her father’s closeness to
the Spirit. She recalls coming in late during high school years, going
to her parents’ bedroom to say goodnight, and finding her father on his
knees in prayer.
Both of her parents were examples in many ways, she
says. “One thing we appreciated was that our father and mother loved each
other. Just walking into the kitchen and catching my father kissing my
mother—that’s one of my favorite memories.”
Children and friends say it is impossible to explain
Dallin Oaks’ success in life without talking about June Oaks. Her husband
agrees. “She just brought out the best in me. I think I could never have
gotten past first base without her,” he says. “June has kept me from getting
pompous and self-important.”
She is well liked by those she meets, he adds, and
completely unaffected. While he was president of BYU, she entertained the
chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, the chief justice and
other officials of the Soviet Supreme Court, former United States President
Gerald R. Ford, three Presidents of the Church, and a variety of other
General Authorities. She was “very much at ease with all of them, and just
as much at ease with the workers who came in to work on the home.”
He notes with admiration that she is the kind of
mother who took up the guitar so she could accompany eight-year-old daughter
Jenny on the violin. Jenny is assigned classical music for her lessons,
but sometimes she plays country music for fun.
“She’s a best friend to her daughters—not just a
mother, but a best friend,” Elder Oaks says of his wife.
June notes that he has always wholeheartedly supported
her in her activities—from schooling to Church callings. He encouraged
her to finish her own bachelor’s degree, in sociology, though it meant
she had to take their little children and attend school in Provo during
parts of several summers, leaving him in Chicago.
“He’s very much the educator and teacher,” she comments,
explaining that he often passes on to her articles he thinks she should
read or would enjoy.
He is always reading. “He reads three or four newspapers
a day” from Washington, Salt Lake City, and, Provo, regularly—along with
Church magazines, an assortment of legal journals, and a wide variety of
other books or periodicals. There is a pattern in the reading. He tackles
technical things in the morning, when he is fresher, and saves lighter
things for later. But reading matter is always close at hand. “If he thinks
he’s going to be waiting at a stoplight, he will often pick up something
to read,” she says.
Probably the character of his reading matter will
change a bit with his new calling. Undoubtedly his goals will change. Despite
years of administrative experience and public service, at this point, he
says, “It seems to me that my weaknesses are a lot more significant than
my strengths.”
Though he has been a Regional Representative for
six and one-half years, and in a stake presidency for nine, he points out
that he has not been a bishop, a mission president, or a temple president,
like other General Authorities. Nor has he had their experience at teaching
from the scriptures in the Church Educational System. “There are so many
things in the ecclesiastical and spiritual phases of the kingdom I have
not done that I feel very inadequate in that area.”
Where does the work in his new calling begin?
“I think it begins by following in the footsteps
of the other Apostles, doing the things that they have done,” he reflects.
“I am at their disposal.”
His friend John Sonnenberg says Elder Oaks will be
equal to the calling because he has always “loved and served the Lord and
his family, first and foremost.”
“It appeared to me long ago that he was chosen
for great responsibility in the kingdom.”
And so it appeared also to members of his family.
Lloyd, who was involved in an Illinois National Guard drill the morning
of April 7, learned of his father’s calling when he returned to the armory
and found a message to call his wife. Her news was a pleasant surprise,
but it seemed instantly right.
Sharmon was unable to attend the first session of
general conference at her Rockford, Illinois, ward chapel that Saturday
morning because her husband had been called to work and they could not
find a sitter for their children. Her mother called to tell her the news.
“After I heard from my mother, it was just natural
to go onto my knees” in prayer, she recalls. Later, she would feel the
power of President Hinckley’s assurance during the conference that her
father and Elder Russell M. Nelson had been
called by the Lord, not by men. The Spirit had already borne a witness
of that.
The following news release appeared August 18, 2000:
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- The LDS Church's Public
Affairs Office confirmed today that Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Church's
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is getting married for the second time next
week. Elder Oaks is scheduled to marry Kristen McMain in the Salt Lake
Temple on August 24th. Elder Oaks' previous wife, June, died July 21, 1998.
McMain is the daughter of Dr. William A. and
Margaret McMain of Salt Lake City. She has a Ed.D. from Brigham Young University,
as well as bachelors and masters degrees in English from the University
of Utah.
She also has worked for 15 years in the book publishing business
both domestically and internationally, according to information provided
by the Church. She is also a returned missionary, having served in the
Sendai, Japan mission for the LDS Church.
Elder Oaks continues to serve at this writing (2005).
Don L. Searle, "Elder Dallin H. Oaks: 'It Begins by Following
the Other Apostles',” Ensign, June 1984, p.15 (principal source)
Lawrence R. Flake, "Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation, p.535
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Note: This is Dallin H. Oaks' first Devotional Address to the faculty and student body of Brigham Young University after being named as President of that institution.
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Strive for Excellence
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The Secular Purpose of Genealogical Work
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The Blessing of Commandments
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The Student Body and the President
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Expectations at BYU
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Where Much Is Given
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The Formula for Success at BYU
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Revelation
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Why Do We Serve?
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Taking upon Us the Name of Jesus Christ
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Parental Leadership in the Family
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Reach Out and Climb!
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Spirituality
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"The Desires of Our Hearts"
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BYU Devotional, 28 March 1986
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Reverent and Clean
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The Desires of Our Hearts
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“Brother’s Keeper”
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Criticism
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Priesthood Blessings
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Gambling—Morally Wrong and Politically Unwise
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Recent Events Involving Church History and Forged Documents
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“The Light and Life of the World”
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Free Agency and Freedom
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Why Do We Serve?
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Family History: “In Wisdom and in Order”
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Always Remember Him
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“What Think Ye of Christ?”
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Modern Pioneers
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World Peace
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Getting to Know China
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The Divinely Inspired Constitution
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The Relief Society and the Church
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Our Strengths Can Become Our Downfall
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Sin and Suffering
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Religious Values and Public Policy
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The Language of Prayer
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"Another Testament of Jesus Christ"
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“The Great Plan of Happiness”
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Our Strengths Can Become Our Downfall
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Same-Gender Attraction
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Powerful Ideas
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Joseph; the Man and the Prophet
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The Light and the Life
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Teaching and Learning by the Spirit
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“Bishop, Help!”
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Friend to Friend
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Personal Protection
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Following the Pioneers
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Judge Not and Judging
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Have You Been Saved?
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The Witness: Martin Harris
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Renewing Our Covenants
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“Judge Not” and Judging
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I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go
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Special Witness: Powerful Ideas
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Give Thanks in All Things
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Repentance and Change
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Preparation for the Second Coming
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Be Not Deceived
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General Conference, October 2004
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“Where Will It Lead?”
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BYU Devotional, 9 November 2004
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MP3
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Pornography
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General Conference, April 2005
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The Dedication of a Lifetime
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CES Fireside, 1 May 2005
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ASX
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The Right Thing at the Right Time
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New Era, July 2005
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Priesthood Authority in the Family and the Church
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General Conference, October 2005
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The Special Language of Prayer
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New Era, January 2006
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All Men Everywhere
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General Conference, April 2006
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Dating versus Hanging Out
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Ensign, June 2006
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He Heals the Heavy Laden
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General Conference, October 2006
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Divorce
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General Conference, April 2007
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Good, Better, Best
Also available as MP4 Video.
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General Conference, October 2007
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MP3
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Testimony
Also available as MP4 Video.
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General Conference, April 2008
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MP3
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Sacrament Meeting and the Sacrament
Also available as MP4 Video.
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General Conference, October 2008
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MP3
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Unselfish Service
Also available as MP4 Video.
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General Conference, April 2009
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MP3
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