'I wish I knew more,' LDS Church apostle Dale G. Renlund said of the Heavenly Mother while addressing the women’s session of the faith's General Conference. But Renlund urged members to be cautious while exploring the topic.
“Very little has been revealed about Mother in Heaven but what we do know is summarized in afound in our Gospel Library application,” Renlund said as the final speaker Saturday evening. “Once you have read what is there, you will know everything that I know about the subject. I wish I knew more. You, too, may still have questions and want to find more answers.”
Current church prophets “are similarly constrained,” Renlund said. “Demanding revelation from God is both arrogant and unproductive. Instead, we wait on the Lord and his timetable to reveal his truths through the means that he has established.” Delivering what is likely to be her final General Conference talk as the president of the churchwide Relief Society,
“I testify that as we choose to make covenants with Heavenly Father and access the power of the Savior to keep them,” she said, “we will be blessed with more happiness in this life than we can now imagine and a glorious eternal life to come.” Rebecca L. Craven of the Young Women general presidency speaks at General Conference on Saturday, April 2, 2022.
Like several other speakers Saturday, this Young Women leader urged listeners to “stay closest to the prophet. As the Lord’s mouthpiece, we can trust that what he urges, counsels and pleads with us to do, are things that matter most.” Susan Porter, first counselor in the Primary general presidency. speaks at General Conference on Saturday, April 2, 2022. She will become Primary president in August.