Keeping Covenants

I'm giving the presidency lesson in Relief Society on November 1, and I plan to teach about keeping covenants (both baptismal covenants and temple covenants). I don't have any favorite talks on the subject that immediately come to mind, but here is a list I've compiled after doing a basic search. Do any of you have any favorites that I should add to the list as I begin my study?

Keeping Covenants Prepares Us, Protects Us, and Empowers Us

• Rosemary Wixom
• https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/keeping-covenants-protects-us-prepares-us-and-empowers-us?lang=eng

Keeping Covenants: A Message for Those Who Will Serve a Mission

• Elder Holland
• https://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/01/keeping-covenants-a-message-for-those-who-will-serve-a-mission?lang=eng

Keeping Covenants and Honoring the Priesthood

• President Faust
• https://www.lds.org/ensign/1993/11/keeping-covenants-and-honoring-the-priesthood.p1?lang=eng

Keeping Covenants

• M. Russell Ballard
• https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1993/04/keeping-covenants?lang=eng

Keeping Our Covenants

• Richard Maynes (Seventy)
• https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/10/keeping-our-covenants?lang=eng

The Covenant Path: God's Plan for Me

• Rosemary Wixom
• https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/rosemary-m-wixom_the-covenant-path/

Making Covenants with God

• President Eyring
• https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/henry-b-eyring_making-covenants-god/

Cleave Unto the Covenants

• Daughters in My Kingdom, Chapter 3
• https://www.lds.org/relief-society/daughters-in-my-kingdom/manual/cleave-unto-the-covenants-exodus-migration-and-settlement?lang=eng

Must Read!

Elder Ballard talks about how--in the last days--even some of the very elect will be deceived. (I love his analogy of the sequoia tree on BYU campus.) He tells us how we can avoid the deception of false teachers with some essential habits. (Nor, he even specifically mentions "making the Sabbath day a delight"!)

https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/to-the-saints-in-the-utah-south-area?cid=HP_TH_9-17-2015_dCN_fCNWS_xLIDyL2-1_&lang=eng

Sabbath Day a Delight

I am giving a talk next week on making a Sabbath day a delight.  I think I want to focus on preparing for the Sabbath day and the Sacrament.   Let me know if you have any thoughts on the topic.

Guilt, Shame & the Atonement

I have been asked to present a fireside for the Single Adults in my stake next month and chose to speak on Guilt, Shame & the Atonement.  I'm still in the "seek diligently/preparation" phase of my preparation and wanted to know if anyone had any talks, scripture verses, insights or stories about the topic that they would care to share.