By the Numbers › Speakers › Tamara W. Runia
General Conference speaker · October 2023 to April 2025
Sister Tamara W. Runia
First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency
Sister Tamara W. Runia gave 2 General Conference talks from October 2023 to April 2025. The main topics of these talks are Family and Marriage and Repentance and Forgiveness. The verse cited most often is Moroni 7:48. Footnotes in 3 later talks by other speakers cite these talks. 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 Sister Runia 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.
- Family and Marriage1 talk17.4× average
- Repentance and Forgiveness1 talk18.7× 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
- Moroni 7:48 1
- Revelation 22:16 1
- 1 Nephi 8:10 1
- Doctrine and Covenants 123:17 1
- 1 Nephi 11:22 1
- Doctrine and Covenants 98:3 1
- Ether 12:19 1
- 1 Nephi 11:21 1
- Doctrine and Covenants 93:24 1
- 1 Nephi 12:16 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
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
07 · Who quotes them
How later talks build on these talks
Speakers who cite these talks most
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.
All These Things Shall Give Thee ExperienceOctober 2026
Your Repentance Doesn’t Burden Jesus Christ; It Brightens His JoyApril 2025
Seeing God's Family through the Overview LensOctober 2023
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Every talk
All 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your Repentance Doesn’t Burden Jesus Christ; It Brightens His Joy | Apr 2025 | Repentance and Forgiveness | 1926 | 28 | 2 | Read ↗ |
| Seeing God’s Family through the Overview Lens | Oct 2023 | Family and Marriage | 2016 | 19 | 1 | 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.