David Journal

Tag: Moroni

  • Safety for the Soul

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    This isn’t the talk I was thinking of when I went looking for it (I misremembered the title – I was thinking of Place No More For The Enemy Of My Soul) but it warms my heart to read it because whatever I may be struggling with I still know unequivocally that the Book of…

  • For the benefit of the Lamanites

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    Moroni wrote the book of Moroni for the benefit of the Lamanites despite the fact that he had to hide himself from the Lamanites least they murder him for refusing to deny Christ.

  • Righteous fathers

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    In seeking to identify the patterns of righteous father’s I read of Lehi, Alma, Alma the younger, Helaman (the father of Nephi and Lehi, not the son of Alma), and Mormon. Consistently these father’s set a good example for their children and taught them the doctrine. They encouraged them in righteousness and admonished then when…

  • Moroni’s testimony

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    It must have felt really good for Moroni to bear his testimony at the close of the Book of Mormon because of how little opportunity he had to share it with others in mortality. I should be sure to not squander the opportunities I have to share my testimony.

  • Charity

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    We can’t have charity unless we have faith in Christ and hope in Christ. With those things we have the capacity to have charity, the pure love of Christ. In order to have charity though we must pray to request it after having obtained faith in Christ and hope in Christ.

  • How do we choose priesthood instructors

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    From what I can see the keys are too look for those who are just and have the Spirit in their lives.

  • Farewell

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    Moroni wrote to remind people of miracles because he knew what the world was like without them. For the most part the only miracles he witnessed were in his personal life. Within his society they were essentially absent.

  • Mormon allowed to preach

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    When Mormon tells the people that it is by the grace of God that he is allowed to preach they may not know that for a time he was forbidden to preach.

  • Moroni alone

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    I’ll bet that by the end of his life Moroni felt closer to the people of our day than he did to the people of his day because he had spent the majority of his life in service to the people of the dispensation of the fullness of times.

  • Moroni

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    Moroni was raised amidst wickedness. In all his life he never saw a righteous people. His only experience of such a people would have been in vision and in reviewing the sacred records. I have always thought before that his years after the destruction of the Nephites must have been lonely but I now realize…