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Celebrating Easter
When I was a child, Christmas was a huge celebration. From decorating the house to picking out the perfect tree to shopping for just the right gifts, Christmas was something we looked forward to every year. I love all the traditions and when I got married and established my own family, I carried on with the big celebration. I included a 24 Days of Christmas book we read each night with scriptures and songs and stories, looked for community members we could be “Secret Santas” for, baked cookies and treats, made sure we chopped down the perfect tree up in the mountains, and tried to turn my house into a…
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Doctrines and Principles for Our Lives
There is so much to learn in section 19 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Doctrines and principles contained in this section are of great importance to our salvation. It was specifically for Martin Harris but we can apply much of it to ourselves. An important message contained in this revelation is that God is in the details of our lives. He knows us and He loves us. Jesus is All We Need Doctrine and Covenants 19:1, reads, “I am Alpha and Omega, Christ the Lord; yea, even I am he, the beginning and the end, the Redeemer of the world.” Jesus is the beginning and the end. We start with Him and we end…
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Christ Suffered for Us So We Don’t Have To
While in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus Christ suffered for each one of us. He describes this suffering in the following scripture passage and then adds a condition so that we do not have to experience the same kind of suffering. In Doctrine and Covenants 19:15-19 it reads, “15 Therefore I command you to repent—repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. 16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; 17 But if they would not…
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The Book of Mormon: Plates vs Records
In Mormon 8:14 it reads, “And I am the same who hideth up this record unto the Lord; the plates thereof are of no worth, because of the commandment of the Lord. For he truly saith that no one shall have them to get gain; but the record thereof is of great worth; and whoso shall bring it to light, him will the Lord bless.” Moroni, as a resurrected being, visited Joseph Smith in 1823 and instructed him about the plates. Young Joseph, who said he’d been tempted by the monetary value of the gold plates because his family was so poor, was forbidden to take them until he was ready to do the work of…
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