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Carlos E. Asay

9 speeches between 1976 and 1995, mostly as Seventy. 42,292 words in the transcripts.

Speeches
9
1976–1995
Words
42,292
in the transcripts
Reading grade
10.1
Flesch–Kincaid, average
Scriptures cited
189
21.0 per speech
Callings
Seventy
also Other
Leadership record
linked
in the leadership database

Speeches by year

19761995

Signature phrases

Words and two-word phrases this speaker uses far more than the rest of the corpus, by weighted log-odds. Stop words, names of deity and the ordinary vocabulary of a sermon are excluded.

  • habit 38
  • powers 39
  • chains 17
  • hardness 11
  • missionary 52
  • memory 26
  • blindness 12
  • endowment 18
  • flaxen 10
  • checkup 9
  • priesthood 50
  • proverbs 16

Scriptures cited most

  • Doctrine and Covenants36
  • Alma16
  • Proverbs15
  • 2 Nephi12
  • Mosiah10
  • 1 Corinthians7
  • Matthew7
  • John6

Callings when speaking

  • Seventy 8
  • Other 1

As given in the bylines: of the Presidency of the Seventy · of the Seventy · Regional Representative

Every speech

  1. 6 Jun 1976I Am a Saint if I Live RightRegional Representative · Devotional4,666 w12 refs
  2. 7 Aug 1977The Joyous Obligation of Missionary Workof the Seventy · Devotional5,640 w11 refs
  3. 6 May 1979“A Cloud of Witnesses”of the Seventy · Devotional4,091 w19 refs
  4. 23 Sep 1980Heavenly Powersof the Seventy · Devotional3,649 w11 refs
  5. 7 Feb 1982Flaxen Threadsof the Seventy · Devotional5,282 w17 refs
  6. 13 Mar 1984Would You Sell?of the Presidency of the Seventy · Devotional4,498 w26 refs
  7. 26 Feb 1985Memory and Youof the Presidency of the Seventy · Devotional3,225 w8 refs
  8. 21 Aug 1990Spiritual Checkupsof the Presidency of the Seventy · Devotional5,584 w57 refs
  9. 14 Nov 1995“It Might Have Been”of the Presidency of the Seventy · Devotional5,657 w28 refs
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