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General Conference speaker · April 2003 to April 2012
Sister Julie B. Beck
Recently Released Relief Society General President
Sister Julie B. Beck gave 15 General Conference talks from April 2003 to April 2012. The main topics of these talks are Women and Relief Society, Hope, Joy and Peace and Scripture Study and the Book of Mormon. The verse cited most often is Doctrine and Covenants 130:18. Footnotes in 2 later talks by other speakers cite these talks. Weak Things has 15 sketch notes of these talks.
01 · The timeline
Every conference, April 2000 to April 2026
Each dot is a conference where Sister Beck 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.
- Women and Relief Society8 talks20.4× average
- Hope, Joy and Peace1 talk2.4× average
- Scripture Study and the Book of Mormon1 talk2.8× average
- Missionary Work1 talk1.9× average
- Priesthood1 talk1.0× average
- Youth1 talk2.2× average
- Repentance and Forgiveness1 talk2.5× average
- Parenting and Children1 talk2.3× 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 130:18 3
- Doctrine and Covenants 1:17 3
- Romans 6:4 2
- Doctrine and Covenants 138:56 2
- Genesis 24:60 2
- Doctrine and Covenants 68:28 2
- Abraham 3:25 2
- 2 Nephi 32:3 2
- Articles of Faith 1:13 2
- Doctrine and Covenants 58:42 2
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 Sister Beck
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.
Church leaders quoted
Conference speakers cited
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
Speakers who cite these talks most
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
15 talks, one page each
Hand-drawn sketch notes from Weak Things. Each page links to the full talk on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
The Vision of Prophets regarding Relief Society: Faith, Family, ReliefApril 2012
What I Hope My Granddaughters (and Grandsons) Will Understand about Relief SocietyOctober 2011
“Daughters in My Kingdom”: The History and Work of Relief SocietyOctober 2010
“And upon the Handmaids in Those Days Will I Pour Out My Spirit”April 2010
Relief Society: A Sacred WorkOctober 2009
Fulfilling the Purpose of Relief SocietyOctober 2008
What Latter-day Saint Women Do Best: Stand Strong and ImmovableOctober 2007
Mothers Who KnowOctober 2007
Remembering, Repenting, and ChangingApril 2007
You Have a Noble BirthrightApril 2006
An Outpouring of BlessingsApril 2006
A Work for Me to DoApril 2005
My Soul Delighteth in the ScripturesApril 2004
A “Mother Heart”April 2004
There Is Hope Smiling Brightly before UsApril 2003
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Every talk
All 15 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.
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.