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General Conference speaker · October 2009 to October 2022
Elder Jorge F. Zeballos
Of the Seventy
Elder Jorge F. Zeballos gave 3 General Conference talks from October 2009 to October 2022. The main topics of these talks are Discipleship and Becoming and Agency and Accountability. The verse cited most often is Doctrine and Covenants 4:2. Weak Things has 3 sketch notes of these talks.
01 · The timeline
Every conference, April 2000 to April 2026
Each dot is a conference where Elder Zeballos spoke. Hover for the talk; click to open its sketch note.
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.
- Discipleship and Becoming2 talks8.3× average
- Agency and Accountability1 talk17.2× average
Key phrases from these talks
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 1,909 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
- Doctrine and Covenants 4:2 1
- 3 Nephi 12:48 1
- Mosiah 4:27 1
- 2 Timothy 4:7 1
- 2 Nephi 25:23 1
- Doctrine and Covenants 14:7 1
- 2 Nephi 32:5 1
- Leviticus 19:12 1
- Mark 1:40 1
- Doctrine and Covenants 132:21 1
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
05 · Signature phrases
Words that sound like Elder Zeballos
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.
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.
07 · Who quotes them
How later talks build on these talks
Footnotes in later talks do not yet link to these talks. Newer talks often take a few conferences to be cited.
Speakers who cite these talks most
None yet.
08 · Kindred voices
Speakers whose talks cover similar ground
Matched by the mix of main and secondary topics. 100 would be an identical mix.
The sketch notes
3 talks, one page each
Hand-drawn sketch notes from Weak Things. Each page links to the full talk on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Building a Life Resistant to the AdversaryOctober 2022
If You Will Be ResponsibleApril 2015
Attempting the ImpossibleOctober 2009
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Every talk
All 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building a Life Resistant to the Adversary | Oct 2022 | Discipleship and Becoming | 1442 | 11 | 0 | Read ↗ |
| If You Will Be Responsible | Apr 2015 | Agency and Accountability | 1706 | 14 | 0 | Read ↗ |
| Attempting the Impossible | Oct 2009 | Discipleship and Becoming | 1192 | 8 | 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 April 2026: 1,909 talks by 370 speakers. Sustainings, audit and statistical reports, and videos are left out. October 2026 joins once its text is posted.
- 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.