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General Conference speaker · October 2012 to October 2016

Sister Carole M. Stephens

First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency

Sister Carole M. Stephens gave 6 General Conference talks from October 2012 to October 2016. The main topics of these talks are Covenants and Ordinances, Women and Relief Society and Family and Marriage. The verse cited most often is Mosiah 18:9. Footnotes in 1 later talk by other speakers cite these talks. Weak Things has 6 sketch notes of these talks.

All speakers 6 sketch notes ↓

6talks since 2000 · No. 46 of 370

9kwords · about 72 minutes

14.7footnotes per talk (all speakers: 12.3)

81different verses cited

1later talks by others cite these talks

01 · The timeline

Every conference, April 2000 to October 2026

Each dot is a conference where Sister Stephens spoke. Hover for the talk; click to open its sketch note.

Callings listed with these talks: First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency

02 · Topic fingerprint

What these talks are about

The main topic of each talk, shown as petals. Longer petals mean more talks. Gold petals are topics this speaker chooses at least 1.5 times as often as the average speaker.

Covenants and Ordinances2 talks14.5× average
Women and Relief Society1 talk6.4× average
Family and Marriage1 talk5.8× average
Obedience and Commandments1 talk5.6× average
Jesus Christ and His Atonement1 talk1.6× average

Key phrases from these talks

bear one another’s burdenswide awake to our dutiesgift of the Holy Ghostgift of powercovenant keeperwe are His childrenWe belongTeach her

03 · The measuring stick

How these talks compare with every talk since 2000

The bar is this speaker. The line marks the average across all 1,946 talks.

04 · The scripture shelf

Which scriptures these talks use

Share of all verse citations by volume of scripture, compared with every speaker. Counted once per talk from footnotes and links in the text.

Verses cited most

The number is how many of these talks cite the verse. Verses with their own page link to every conference talk that cites them.

Books cited most

John

Doctrine and Covenants

Alma

Mosiah

Matthew

Moroni

05 · Signature phrases

Words that sound like Sister Stephens

Phrases that appear in these talks far more often than in other speakers' talks. Bigger type means a bigger difference. The number is how many of these talks use the phrase.

teachable heart²keeping daughters²look different²leader asked²entered my mind²against being baptized²covenant daughters²blessings and power²spirit more abundantly²hearts changed²

06 · Who these talks quote

The voices in the footnotes

Leaders named in the footnotes, outside authors named in the text or footnotes, and the conference speakers whose talks are cited. Each counts talks, not mentions.

Church leaders quoted

Wilford Woodruff

Conference speakers cited

Richard G. Scott

Dale G. Renlund

Russell M. Nelson

Outside authors

No outside authors on the Bookshelf list are named in these talks.

07 · Who quotes them

How later talks build on these talks

Most-cited talkThe Master HealerOctober 2016 · cited by 1 later talk

Speakers who cite these talks most

Reyna I. Aburto

08 · Kindred voices

Speakers whose talks cover similar ground

Matched by the mix of main and secondary topics. 100 would be an identical mix.

Sister Barbara Thompson78 topic match Sister Linda K. Burton72 topic match Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson68 topic match Sister Julie B. Beck67 topic match

The sketch notes

6 talks, one page each

Hand-drawn sketch notes from Weak Things. Each page links to the full talk on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

Sketch note of The Master Healer by Carole M. Stephens

The Master HealerOctober 2016

Sketch note of “If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments” by Carole M. Stephens

“If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments”October 2015

Sketch note of The Family Is of God by Carole M. Stephens

The Family Is of GodApril 2015

Sketch note of We Have Great Reason to Rejoice by Carole M. Stephens

We Have Great Reason to RejoiceOctober 2013

Sketch note of Do We Know What We Have? by Carole M. Stephens

Do We Know What We Have?October 2013

Sketch note of Wide Awake to Our Duties by Carole M. Stephens

Wide Awake to Our DutiesOctober 2012

For teachers and families: each sketch note has a printable PDF. Browse all Conference Sketch Notes →

Every talk

All 6 talks, newest first

Titles open the Weak Things sketch note. "Read" opens the official talk on ChurchofJesusChrist.org, the source for every number on this page.

Talk	Conference	Main topic	Words	Footnotes	Cited by	Source
The Master Healer	Oct 2016	Jesus Christ and His Atonement	1695	16	1	Read ↗
“If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments”	Oct 2015	Obedience and Commandments	1605	15	0	Read ↗
The Family Is of God	Apr 2015	Family and Marriage	1348	16	0	Read ↗
We Have Great Reason to Rejoice	Oct 2013	Covenants and Ordinances	1891	13	0	Read ↗
Do We Know What We Have?	Oct 2013	Covenants and Ordinances	1578	13	0	Read ↗
Wide Awake to Our Duties	Oct 2012	Women and Relief Society	1768	15	0	Read ↗

Sources and method

Where these numbers come from

Talk text, footnotes and callings come from the official General Conference pages on ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Every talk above links to its source.
Coverage is April 2000 through October 2026: 1,946 talks by 381 speakers. Sustainings, audit and statistical reports, and videos are left out.
Verse counts use scripture links in footnotes and talk text, counted once per talk. "Cited by" counts later talks whose footnotes link to one of these talks.
Main topics are estimates assigned by a language model from each talk's opening and closing. Signature phrases compare how many of these talks use a phrase with how many other talks do.
Leaders quoted are found by name in footnotes. Outside authors are found by name in the text and footnotes. Sketch notes are Weak Things study aids, not official Church materials.