Tag: Latter-day Saints
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Brigham City Temple Dedication
We went to the first dedicatory session broadcast for the Brigham City Temple today with Savannah and Alyssa. It had been long enough since I went to a temple dedication that I had forgotten how distinctly different the spirit of a temple dedication is from other church meetings. It was again an amazing experience to…
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Priesthood Benefits
Giving of priesthood blessings is not one of the benefits of the priesthood. The benefits are that we may receive blessings, that we may act and speak for the Lord, that we may know that he will support us in our actions and that we may receive and know His will. The benefits are that…
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Notes 14 March 2000
Make the Standard Works the standard for your works. “It’s not the things in the scriptures I don’t understand that bother me. It’s the things I do understand.” Mark Twian President Heber J. Grant was given 1000 silver dollars to donate to his favorite charity. He had each one made into a paperweight. He mailed…
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Notes 18 January 2000
“The LDS scholar has his citizenship in the kingdom and carries his passport into the world – not the other way around.” [Neal A. Maxwell] Brother Flake said in class, “Pornography as is the most pervasive in the lives of good young people (so-called “mild” pornography — watching questionable movies and the like) will not…