That's not the point of this thread...even though you want it to be. The statements I cited (and the crux of this thread) was that Jesus, in general, was not, or rarely mentioned in LDS wards. None of them were about the "Mormon" Jesus.
Read my posts here. I addressed how your subject here is a fallacy and vain attempt to associate Mormonism with Christianity. You knew you were going to get objection from others by doing so, which is why you added the "disclaimer" in the thread. This is a discussion board and people will discuss what they want about a subject, and clarifying that Mormonism believes in and teaches a different Jesus and a different Gospel is a major subject discussion here, maybe the most critical points to make to an investigator.
The Bishop's counselors give the themes of the talks....and none are about "gardening". While some members may chose to use such activities in their talk, almost every single one revolves around the Savior in some manner.
I have heard talks all over the board in my years as a Mormon. I remember one talk by good ol sister Moser about woman hood while crying, she was comparing here dog "Kizzy" coming into heat as a young woman blossoming and becoming a woman. And yes I have heard talks about gardening and vacations.
You know as well as I do, that a good talk in sacrament is by someone that knows how to speak publicly and hopefully has a since of humor, or it will be a long 10-20 minutes or so. But I hear it is much more tolerable these days in that the church supplies wi-fi and you can fake like you are looking at scripture and surf or candy crush during a boring talk.
You are making it sound like all sacraments talks and speakers are Paul Dunn's (less the fibs). Google LDS living and you can find ways to get through a boring Sacrament. One of the best ways I found was to play a game in my mind of trying to catch the Bishop of counselors nodding off. The last time I attended a Sacrament meeting was about ten years ago was in a Hobble Creek ward. I took my mother, on of my cousins sons was giving his return talk. It was actually a interesting talk as I remember it. But one man didn't think so, he snored through most of the service. After the service I asked my mom who the heck that was snoring and she laughed and told me it was Billy Casper, the famous hall of fame pro golfer, and that he always sleeps through the talks.
The one thing that sticks out about the service was that the Bishopric needs to learn how to smile and have a little Joy in their countenance.... I had forgotten how smug a service can be.
The Bishop isn't supposed to give a sermon... that's just a commonly accepted practice in mainstream Christianity. As for the manuals in SS and PH...they too always revolve around the Christ. I can give you the topic headings if you'd like...
Sermons are in the Bible by apostles and in those days they did not have "Bibles" and sermons were the mode of teaching, almost 100%. The BoM is even full of 19th century sermons.
But yes Bishops are not supposed to preach the Gospel, which was my point. Paul was clear a Pastor, Elder, Bishop....was the preach the Word.
As far as manuals that is all correlated material so the church has control of what people learn and when they should learn it.