Author: David
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Martin’s thorn
It sounds like Martin Harris had a hard time giving himself fully to the work and letting go of how the world would prescribe him and his actions
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Look to the good examples
Behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things. Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy. And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that he may redeem the children of men from the fall. And because that they are redeemed…
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The least bad outcome
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with how everything played out with the Cruze even as I lament the $1000 price tag of towing and repairing it. The least bad outcome is that it passed the carbon test which indicates that Bex stopped the car before the overheating could cause any real damage. We may…
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You need not suppose
Behold, I command you that you need not suppose that you are called to preach until you are called. Doctrine & Covenants 11:15 Wanting to serve and hoping to serve are not substitutes for being called to serve. Just because the desires are righteous doesn’t mean that the authority has been granted. Even if we…
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Another financial hit
I went through the credit card to cover what Laura spent there over the last two weeks to get things back on track and what I found was that she had spent more than what she had left this past period (which isn’t even half over. On top of that I found that the tow…
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Dig a pit for thy neighbor
A stark contrast between Heavenly Father and Satan is that Satan teaches people to go as low as (or lower than) those they have decided to oppose while Heavenly Father insists that those who follow him must not sink with their adversaries in order to prevail.
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Understanding the context
Nephi was able to tell his brothers what the words of Isaiah meant because his vision had given him the context of what Isaiah was prophesying.
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Thou shalt surely die
Adam and Eve were warned that if they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they would surely die. We instinctively interpret death as referring to physical death—the separation of our body and our spirit—but it also applies to spiritual death—the separation of us from our Heavenly Father. Lucifer contended…
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What are you building next? And how?
This is the outline of how I imagine the lesson tomorrow unfolding. Review the 1820-1830 “days never to be forgotten” with the personal “decade never to be forgotten” that Elder Stevenson described. Compare those periods of time and consider how they relate to your current and upcoming years. Talk about the origin story nature of…