About this project.
A tool for finding talks you half-remember, or never knew were there. Built by one person, in the evenings, because nothing else did this.
Who made it
Seek Diligently was built by Roger Pimentel. It is not a company, it has no employees, and it is not anyone’s job. It is one person’s evening-and-weekend project, made because he kept wanting to find a talk he could only half remember and kept failing to find it.
It is also not an official anything. This site is independent, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The talks belong to the Church and are free to read at the source, which is where every citation here sends you.
What it holds
Thousands of General Conference talks are searchable today, and the collection reaches back to April 1942.
General Conference is older than that, and more of the archive may be added over time (that’s a hope, not a promise). I’d also love to hear what other materials you would like to see added, extending out of General Conference (books in the public domain, etc.).
How the search works
A keyword search can only find the words you already know… and the problem is when you only remember what the talk was about, or you’re searching for materials that mean the same thing but use different words. Closing that gap is the whole engineering problem here, and it took considerably more than a search box.
Every talk in the collection is broken into passages, and each passage becomes a mathematical representation of what it means, in a space where two passages about the same idea land near each other even when they share no vocabulary at all. Your question goes through the same conversion and is matched against all of it at once. That is why asking about “the rules on what I can eat and drink” returns the Word of Wisdom, a phrase your question never used.
There are some structural pieces, too, that allow you to filter correctly. Every talk and every speaker in the collection has been resolved against a concrete record: who spoke, the calling they held at that moment, their gender, the date, the session, etc. That work is what lets a constraint written casually inside a sentence (“by women, since 1975”) become one the search genuinely enforces. That way you get the best of an AI-powered semantic search, plus old-school filtering.