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General Conference Sentence Generator

Thanks to Ziff at Zelophehad’s Daughters, who curated a great dataset of General Conference talks and generously shared it with me, I was able to code up a General Conference random sentence generator.

Using 3-grams (use the last three words to predict the next word) worked best, since it maintained some gramatical structure, but still allowed for substantial variation.

I still need to polish it up, but I'll put it online at some point, and allow the options of picking particular sessions, years, or speakers.  In the meanwhile, here are some of my preliminary results.  I've included some ones that I think are funny, but also some that aren't.

Manning and I embraced, and thanks were expressed for his service, not only to their homes, and ponder upon the majesty of the gospel of love and union is with us, so I guess we'd better study and ponder the scriptures.

They have gone into the waters of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, even the Comforter, which is the great physician.

I speak of is lacking.

To my horror, I could see I was willing to share.

They need the strength that has bound their family together every day to read the manual.

He understands how hard it would be if we would accept every assignment to the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1820.

I think I should shoot them, but my mom doesn't.

But we can forgive whatever may have caused us not to condemn him.

What if the commitment is already there and were so hard they couldn't or wouldn't eat.

Rather, I believe our meeting was an answer to every man according to his will, according to his own mother and father.

Lowering his voice, he told us that he sent his divine Son, our Savior, to show us how to establish peace and happiness, but no matter how advantageous it may seem to others.

There are times in the standard works with the area conferences in Mexico, Central America, South America, the Philippines, and we were about to pass through on dry ground.

And don't you go along home.

Fundamental to this is no, of course not, provided it is done in harmony with God.

Then he had the courage to respond almost unanimously to a man and a woman outside of marriage.

In all of our people, with eighty wagons and hundreds of thousands of footnotes would require many hundreds of thousands of Heavenly Father's plan of happiness.

As noted by Moroni, this perfect love comes as a product of that, because when my mother's advice.

Lehi said in the April 2007 Ensign and Liahona To avoid so-called 'incompatibility,' they should be removed in a genuine Christian spirit.

Today my plea is to those members already inside but whose discipleship is casual, individuals whom we could call to be president of twelve deacons.

It may be difficult to tell the world something a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen.

This is our responsibility to break the Sabbath day.

What mother would not want to know about its eternal journey to know where it is possible to send letters, tapes, and pictures, particularly where distances are great and varied.

I've been very proud of my husband.

Jesus used this common illustration of his day and times, but ours as well; they have communicated with us as I speak to you tonight, I was sitting in his robe reading Gospel Doctrine, by President Joseph F.

People didn't like it, she would say, 'O my son, how great iniquity ye brought upon the Zoramites; for when they saw the placard that Elder Schreiter had posted on the airline communication board by the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach.

Arms are tangible, and we use them to achieve his goal.

Does it seem reasonable to cure leprosy by telling a story: 'A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho who fell among thieves and was left half dead.

One spring when we opened up those islands for the preaching of the word of knowledge by the same covenant, volunteered to defend their families and make sure they were all from Idaho stakes affected by the flood opened their homes and by the gif.t and spirit of his message and investigated the Church for their faithfulness.

Thereafter, every time I approached the reception desk of a large lion' s head roaring.

She held her well-worn Personal Progress book and said she had forgiven her unrepentant adversary.

Do you see, Sister Anonymous.

I have mentioned the lives of those who held it when the Savior is known to the church to which we have on hand this year's General Women's Meeting.

He did not place a demand or order for the Church.

If a rope had only one window, we would see one.

That judgment will consider not only your actions, but also for the young man, I can remember the excitement I felt as though heaven and earth and the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world.

Such individual blessings are part of a mistreated soul.

He understood, and he could not be evacuated.

In the Andersen home, the Sabbath day holy, maintaining personal purity, and the other prophets of this new approach even a glassful could cause a drowning.

It has been our experience that if you practice these virtues, you will be unable to make its way back into the presence of thousands and thousands of them working together in productive pursuits.

Let us now return to our Father in Heaven reserves for them every promised blessing for His people: a belief, a testimony, patience, obedience, charity, wisdom, and faith in His timing.

Sorrowfully, she answered them, ' Because they have taken away my Lord, and I am grateful for the opportunity to take a careful inventory of their annual increase.

I had the help and blessings of the priesthood would have power, through faith, to govern and direct all of his hopes seemed doomed to scorn and destined for extinction.

On Sunday, April 11th, 1830, Oliver Cowdery preached the first public meetings in the local ward while his team played without him.

The Holy Ghost is to bear witness of the Spirit came to him: he had made a special study of the scriptures and the revelations, they would find Elder Cruz, the mother clasped his hands in bringing individuals into the Church, and so forth.

We gather each week for forty years, lest they should be as concerned with the rising divorce rate.

May we all repent and become active during this coming year of jubilee offers an excellent time to work out the infinite and eternal sacrifice for all mankind, or are the first in England to lure away British girls and make slaves of its citizens.

And there were deep shadows in which the ordinances and direction of Divine Providence reaching out after them and drawing them back to meet the extremely demanding time requirements of his profession as a heart surgeon.

The first and thousandth time this question is invariably asked, particularly by members of this church, which testimony I leave, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I have been coming to conference, I have been to the end.