New Beginnings…
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A Pride of Grandmas
A Goof of Grandpas
A Juggle of Moms
A Muscle of Elders
A Starve of Elders
A Preen of Laurels
A Tantrum of Toddlers
A Smell of Scouts
A Giggle of Beehives
A Snooze of High Priests
From Last Week
Category A
Good things
Zion
Health
Pleasure
Good
Peace
Gathering
Martyrs
Right
Category B
Bad Things
Babylon
Sickness
Pain
Evil
Misery
Scattering
Persecutors
Wrong
Spiritual Maturity
Overly
Idealistic
Good
Bad
Cynical
(Betrayed)
Charity
Bad
Good
And Bad
New Beginnings
2 Nephi 5: 4-8
A new start requires a
new name…
Sacrament Prayer:
D&C 20: 77
Kirtland Temple: 109:
26
Elder Oaks
Willingness to take upon us the
name of Jesus Christ can
therefore be understood as
willingness to take upon us the
authority of Jesus Christ.
According to this meaning, by
partaking of the sacrament we
witness our willingness to
participate in the sacred
ordinances of the temple
and to receive the highest
blessings available through the
name and by the authority of
the Savior when he chooses to
confer them upon us.
1985 April Conference
Their Center?
2 Nephi 5: 14-16
City Plot, designed by Joseph Smith
Far West, Missouri
Nauvoo
Salt Lake City
From the dedicatory prayer
D&C 109
30 And hearken thou to the
supplication of thy servant, and of
thy people Israel, when they shall
pray toward this place: and hear
thou in heaven thy dwelling place:
and when thou hearest, forgive.
38 What prayer and supplication
soever be made by any man, or by
all thy people Israel, which shall
know every man the plague of his
own heart, and spread forth his
hands toward the temple.
The Righteous
These are the “spirits
of the just, made
perfect…” Heb 12:23
2 Nephi 9: 13-18
A Little Learning
2 Nephi 9: 28, 29
From the Isaiah 51 (2 Nephi 8)
Hearken to me, ye that follow
after righteousness, ye that seek the
LORD:
look unto the rock whence ye are hewn,
and to the hole of the pit whence ye are
digged.
Look unto Abraham your father,
and unto Sarah that bare you:
for I called him alone, and blessed him, and
increased him.
For the LORD shall comfort Zion:
he will comfort all her waste places;
and he will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of the
LORD;
joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.