President Camille N. Johnson, Relief Society general president, spoke during the Saturday morning session of April 2025 general conference. She said wholeness is born of faith in and conversion to Jesus Christ. The following is a summary of what she said.
The Master Healer will heal all afflictions – physical and emotional – in His time. While waiting to be healed, one can be made spiritually whole in Him.
Being whole in Jesus Christ happens when exercising agency to follow Him in faith, keeping His commandments, entering a covenant relationship with Him, and enduring until returning to His presence and being healed in every way.
Faith in Jesus Christ begets hope. “Faith in Him increases my hope for healing, and that hope reinforces my faith in Jesus Christ. It is a powerful cycle.”
Through faith in Jesus Christ, all can seek to be spiritually whole while waiting and hoping for physical and emotional healing. “We can choose to be made whole by exercising our faith in Him.”
To be whole means to be complete and full, like the five wise virgins who had their lamps full with oil when the bridegroom came. Making and keeping covenants in the house of the Lord fills lamps today with the oil of conversion. Then, share His light.
Wholeness does not necessarily mean physical and emotional restoration in mortality.
“Wholeness is born of faith in and conversion to Jesus Christ and in letting the light of that conversion shine.”
Notable quotes
“I can be whole, while I wait for healing, if I am wholehearted in my relationship with Him.”
“Faith in Him increases my hope for healing, and that hope reinforces my faith in Jesus Christ. It is a powerful cycle.”
“Through our faith in Jesus Christ, we can seek to be spiritually whole while we wait and hope for physical and emotional healing.”
- President Camille N. Johnson has served as Relief Society general president since August 2022. Before that, she served as Primary general president beginning in April 2021.
- She has worked as a lawyer for more than 30 years at the Snow, Christensen & Martineau law firm, where she recently served as firm president.
- She and her husband, Brother Douglas R. Johnson, presided over the Perú Arequipa Mission from 2016 to 2019.
Read President Johnson’s previous general conference address, or follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
President Camille N. Johnson shares her process of self-discovery while writing her talk for general conference. “I just finished speaking at general conference, and I thought you might be interested in what’s involved in actually preparing and delivering a general conference talk. I started many months ago deliberating on the subject that I might share, and frankly, my conference talk is really my own personal deliberation over a question I had. I have a number of people close to me in my life, some who are struggling with cancer. My husband suffers with chronic pain. I have a son who has multiple sclerosis and in my mind I was reasoning through this question: ‘Isn’t my faith or their faith sufficient to heal them? And why do we have to wait for healing?’ And it was in the process of trying to discover an answer to that question, that I suspect others have, that I discovered something that’s been there all along. And that was the story from the ten lepers where the one was made whole. ”And it was in the process of reviewing my scriptures, my own study, my prayer, my reflection on my people that I love who are suffering, that I came to the conclusion that we can be spiritually whole in Him, even while we wait for healing. Healing will come. It will come by virtue of our Savior, Jesus Christ. But it may not come until the Resurrection, but we can be made spiritually whole in Him. And there was a process of self-discovery involved in that for me. And now I’ve had the opportunity to communicate my self-discovery to all of you. I hope the message is helpful.”
Posted by Camille N. Johnson on Saturday, April 5, 2025
