David Journal

Tag: notes

  • General session of stake conference

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    Mervyn B. Arnold Having investigators receive the missionary lessons at a member’s home makes it so that they are less likely to have distractions such as televisions and phone calls to interrupt the lesson. For our own sakes and the sake of being an active participant in the work of the gospel we need to…

  • Stake conference adult meeting

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    President Walker: as he shared the quote by Orson F. Whitney about how the eye of the good shepherd is always upon the children of faithful parents when they wander and they will eventually feel the tentacles of divine Providence pulling them back I realized that this applies to those who wander but that those…

  • Defining manhood

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    What does it mean to be a man? I need to review the challenge but first record some initial thoughts. What benefit to defining roles? Without defined roles there is no ability to enforce responsibility or have a basis if expectations. (Without law there can be no sin, etc.) A shared expectation of what manhood…

  • Sunday school notes

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    Hugh Nibley said that Enoch was the colossus astride the Apocrypha. President Eyring asked to be allowed to read Moses 6:32-34 “because they cheer me up.”

  • Enoch’s First Talk

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    We lived with Heavenly Father before we were born. He wanted us to become more like Him so He made a plan for us where we would be able to grow more like Him. He made the earth for us to live on. He sent us to live in families so that we would have…

  • Genera conference general session

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    Christopher George Jackson as the new stake president. President Walker 1st counselor President Barlow 2nd counselor I’ve been jealous of President Taylor’s capacity to answer the calls to serve. During the hymn, I’ll go where you want me to go, I realized that while the place I have been called to serve seems like about…

  • Stake conference adult session

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    I arrived 15 minutes late and the meeting was already on full swing. Stanley G(?) Ellis: Listen to the spirit so that you learn what YOU needed to learn Elder Peter F(?) Evans: Talk is cheap. I think sometimes when we express love we talk love instead of doing love. If we’re ever going to…

  • Prepare ye the way

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    The scriptures etc. in this lesson (the hearts of the children shall turn to the fathers) are very similar to the scriptures etc. in the lesson called the prisoners shall go free. John the Baptist was called to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. I wonder if he felt he had succeeded in…

  • Men of Action

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    Men’s service club. Any member of the club may propose a project. Projects will be voted on to determine which one is undertaken on any given month. Membership is open to any male over 12 years old. The membership due is to participate in at least one project every 3 months and at least 6…

  • Stake conference general session

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    Question from last night: if nothing challenges my faith, what do I have in front of me? Possible answer: as we pass each challenge we come to know, rather than just having faith, how we will react to that kind of situation. President Taylor: Our home must be a place which isn’t moved by the…