New Beginnings… Kevinhinckley.com 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.