David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Three years

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    I never realized before that it was only 3 years after the neighbors have the land of Jershon to the people of Ammon that the people of Ammon allowed the people cast out from the Zoramites to have that land and they moved on to another place.

  • Edifying words

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    Let your words tend to edifying one another. Doctrine & Covenants 136:24 Edifying words to one another are what I am trying to help the kids learn to speak—they are basically the opposite of their native language.

  • The seed of prayer

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    When the poor of the Zoramites asked how to plan the seed of faith to test the words of Alma he answered that they should pray and test what he had to say about them being able to pay outside the synagogues where they had been rejected. He directly addressed their specific concern and gave…

  • Many cultures

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    I realized tonight that there is a difference between the nations described in the Book of Mormon and the nations identified by modern archeologists. The Book of Mormon categorizes all the people in it’s chronicles under one of three headings: Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites. On the other hand it also describes neighbor separate gross are…

  • Shifting identities

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    I have often wondered how the Lamanite would be so willing to allow a Nephite to usurp their throne as Amalickiah did and especially to allow the throne to be passed one Nephi’s to another as Ammoron and then his son Tubaloth subsequently returned over the Lamanites. Today it struck me that after the mission…

  • Awake to contention

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    I find it interesting that Lamoni, his wife, and his father all awoke from their conversion experiences to find the people around them arguing so that they had to immediately begin preaching of the peace they had discovered in Christ.

  • Thinking of others

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    Everything Ammon did was with the welfare of others in mind. He sought to preserve the flicks in order to save his fellow servants. He smote of arms rather than killing then men who came against him because he didn’t desire to take their lives even as he was defending the flocks from them.

  • Gentiles and Jews

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    I never before noticed that in pushing to the Gentiles the elders were to invite them to repent and gather to Zion while they should invite Jews to repent and gather to Jerusalem. It says much about our respect for law that the church would declare from it’s infancy that where slavery was legal they…

  • Follow up on invitations

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    When you follow up on an invitation to act, you show learners that you care about them and how the gospel is blessing their lives. You also give them opportunities to share their experiences, which strengthens their commitment and allows them to support one another in living the gospel. There are many ways to follow…

  • Invitations that respect agency

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    Rather than always extending invitations to do something specific, consider inviting learners to think of their own ways to apply what they have learned. You could say, “How could you strengthen your relationships with your siblings?” or “Write down one spiritual impression you received and how you will act on it.” Teaching in the Savior’s…