“We Believe in Being Honest” | Matthew L. Carpenter | December 2023

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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To embrace the light of Christ and be like Him, we must be honest in all our doings, including religious, online, and academic situations. Matthew L. Carpenter, a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered this devotional address on December 5, 2023. You can access it here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recent speeches podcast presented by BYU speeches
0:05.0	featuring inspiring new devotional and forums given each week on BYU campus.
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0:20.3	Pogasts. This devotional address entitled We Believe in Being Honest
0:27.0	was given on December 5th of 2023 by Matthew L Carpenter, then a general authority, 70 of the Church of Jesus Christ of
0:36.8	Latter Day Saints.
0:38.3	My wife Shelly and I recently returned from serving for three years in the area of presidency of the Africa Central Area.
0:46.2	We loved it.
0:48.1	We love the people and the opportunity to see firsthand the Lord hastening his work in Africa. The church is growing
0:55.2	rapidly there. Many of the noble people of Africa believe in Jesus Christ and
1:00.8	seek for greater hope that comes from him. They live simply. Here is a
1:07.0	picture of a boy coming home from school playing in the rain. He's getting a
1:11.8	he's having a great time but he's really getting drenched.
1:15.0	We found that many Africans are quick to laugh in the face of challenges.
1:20.0	For many living in Africa, economic challenges are very real. In several
1:26.2	countries the official unemployment rate is 30% and the unofficial
1:31.5	unemployment rate can be as high as 70%.
1:35.0	Many live on less than a dollar a day.
1:39.0	With that background, listen to this true story of a missionary who was completing his mission
1:45.2	in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was a faithful and diligent missionary.
1:51.3	When the day arrived for him to go home to Liberia, one of the poorest
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