Submission

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Submission

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School Notes from Alabama

• 1. My son is under a doctor's care and
  should not take PE today. Please
  execute him.
• 2. Please exkuce lisa for being absent
  she was sick and i had her shot.
• 3. Dear school please ecsc's john
  being absent on jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
  and also 33.
• 4. Please excuse roland from p.e. for a few days.
  Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his
  hip.
• 5. John has been absent because he had two teeth
  taken out of his face.
• 6. Megan could not come to school today because
  she has been bothered by very close veins.
• 7. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre
  in his side.
• 8. Please excuse ray friday from school. He has
  very loose vowels.
• 9. Please excuse jimmy for being. It was his
  father's fault.
• 10. I kept Billie home because she had to go
  Christmas shopping because i don't know what size
  she wear.
• 11. Please excuse jennifer for missing school
  yesterday. We forgot to get the sunday paper off
  the porch, and when we found it monday. We
  thought it was sunday.

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Apollo 13
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Elder Bruce Hafen
Elder Bruce Hafen
Broken Heart
Belonging Heart
Believing Heart
Satanic Seduction
At-One-Ment
Divine Gravity
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Elder Busche

• When someone understands the full meaning of
  Gods love it is as if the arms of heaven have
  come to pull out of the mire and darkness of the
  world, and we begin to see the light. Suddenly we
  cannot question who we are anymore. Gods
  creations are perfectand all of us have the
  innate potential to become like God.
• The deeper understanding of this reality will
  continue to grow inside of us and lead us to the
  security of belongingnot only to the Creator but
  also to every other child of God.
• Religious Educator, Spring 2008, p. 5,6

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Abinadi

• And it came to pass that there was a man
  among them whose name was Abinadi and he
  went forth among them, and began to prophesy,
  saying Behold, thus saith the Lord, and thus
  hath he commanded me, saying

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Reminder
Abinadi prophesied of many things which are to
come, yea, even the coming of Christ. 27 And
because he said unto them that Christ was the
God, the Father of all things and that God
should come down among the children of men, and
take upon him flesh and blood, and go forth upon
the face of the earth  

• Nephi
• the angel spake unto meand I saw that the
  Redeemer was lifted up upon the cross and
  slain for the sins of the world. (1 Nephi
  1132,33)
• King Benjamin
• I shall tell you the things made known
  unto me by an angel of Godthat the Lord
  Omnipotent shall dwell in a tabernacle of
  clayand he shall be called Jesus Christ
  (Mosiah 32)
• Jacob
• In the last night, the angel spake unto me
  that..Christ should be his nameand they should
  crucify him (2 Nephi 103)
• Alma
• the spirit hath said this to mehe shall be
  born of Mary, at Jerusalemand he will take upon
  him death. (Alma 710,12)
• Samuel
• the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall suffer many
  things and shall be slain for his people, and
  behold, an angel of the Lord hath declared it
  unto me. (Helaman 137)

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Abinadi

• And it came to pass that there was a man
  among them whose name was Abinadi and he
  went forth among them, and began to prophesy,
  saying Behold, thus saith the Lord, and thus
  hath he commanded me, saying
• Now the eyes of the people were blinded
  therefore they hardened their hearts against the
  words of Abinadi, and they sought from that time
  forward to take him
• And it came to pass that after the space of two
  years that Abinadi came among them in disguise,
  that they knew him not, and began to prophesy
  among them
• And it came to pass that they were angry with
  him and they took him and carried him bound
  before the king, and said unto the king Behold,
  we have brought a man before thee who has
  prophesied evil concerning thy people, and saith
  that God will destroy them.
• And it came to pass that king Noah caused that
  Abinadi should be cast into prison and he
  commanded that the priests should gather
  themselves together that he might hold a council
  with them what he should do with him.
• I say unto you, wo be unto you for perverting the
  ways of the Lord!
• Ye have not applied your hearts to understanding
  therefore, ye have not been wise. Therefore, what
  teach ye this people?

How could they know the Law But not understand
the Savior?
Can we understand the Church but not the
Atonement?
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Priests of Noah

• After Abinadi had condemed their sins, what did
  the Priests ask him?
• And it came to pass that one of them said unto
  him What meaneth the words which are written,
  and which have been taught by our fathers,
  saying
• How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of
  him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth
  peace that bringeth good tidings of good that
  publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion, Thy
  God reigneth
• Why this question?

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Elder Bednar

• I find it most interesting in these and many
  other verses that understanding is linked
  primarily to the heart. Note that we are not
  explicitly counseled to apply our minds to
  understanding. Obviously, we must use our
  minds and our rational capacity to obtain and
  evaluate information and to reach appropriate
  conclusions and judgments. But perhaps the
  scriptures are suggesting to us that reason and
  the arm of flesh are not sufficient to produce
  true understanding.
• Thus, understanding, as the word is used in the
  scriptures, does not refer solely or even
  primarily to intellectual or cognitive
  comprehension. Rather, understanding occurs when
  what we know in our minds is confirmed as true in
  our hearts by the witness of the Holy Ghost.
• And as testimony and conviction move from our
  heads to our hearts, we no longer just have
  information or knowledgebut we begin to
  understand and seek after the mighty change of
  heart. Understanding, then, is the result of
  revelation
• This revealed insight about the relationship
  between the heart and understanding has greatly
  influenced my approach to gospel learning and
  study, has affected positively the way Sister
  Bednar and I teach our children and
  grandchildren, and has impacted my priesthood
  service.
• BYU Fireside, 2007

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Elder Maxwell

• In today's society, at the mere mention of the
  words obedience and submissiveness hackles rise
  and people are put on nervous alert. . . .
• People promptly furnish examples from secular
  history to illustrate how obedience to unwise
  authority and servility to bad leaders have
  caused much human misery and suffering.
• It is difficult, therefore, to get a hearing for
  what the words obedience and submissiveness
  really mean--even when the clarifying phrase, "to
  God," is attached.
• "Not My Will, But Thine" (Salt Lake City
  Bookcraft, 1988), p. 1

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Elder Holland

• Let me use an example from what is often
  considered by foes, and even by some friends, as
  the most unsavory moment in the entire Book of
  Mormon. I choose it precisely because there is so
  much in it that has given offense to many. It is
  pretty much a bitter cup all the way around.
• I speak of Nephi's obligation to slay Laban in
  order to preserve a record, save a people, and
  ultimately lead to the restoration of the gospel
  in the dispensation of the fulness of times. How
  much is hanging in the balance as Nephi stands
  over the drunken and adversarial Laban I cannot
  say, but it is a very great deal indeed.
• The only problem is that we know this, but Nephi
  does not. And regardless of how much is at stake,
  how can. he do this thing? He is a good person,
  perhaps even a well-educated person. He has been
  taught from the very summit of Sinai "Thou shalt
  not kill." And he has made gospel covenants.
• "1 was constrained by the Spirit that I should
  kill Laban but . . . I shrunk and would that I
  might not slay him". A bitter test? A desire to
  shrink? Sound familiar? We don't know why those
  plates could not have been obtained some other
  way--perhaps accidentally left at the plate
  polishers one night or maybe falling out the back
  of Laban's chariot on a Sabbath afternoon.
• For that matter, why didn't Nephi just leave this
  story out of the book altogether? Why didn't he
  say something like, "And after much effort and
  anguish of spirit, I did obtain the plates of
  Laban and did depart into the wilderness unto the
  tent of my father?" At the very least he might
  have buried the account somewhere in the Isaiah
  chapters, thus guaranteeing that it would have
  gone undiscovered up to this very day.
• But there it is, squarely in the beginning of the
  book--page 8--where even the most casual reader
  will see it and must deal with it. It is not
  intended that either Nephi or we be spared the
  struggle of this account.
• I believe that story was placed in the very
  opening verses of a 531-page book and then told
  in painfully specific detail in order to focus
  every reader of that record on the absolutely
  fundamental gospel issue of obedience and
  submission to the communicated will of the Lord.
  If Nephi cannot yield to this terribly painful
  command, if he cannot bring himself to obey, then
  it is entirely probable that he can never succeed
  or survive in the tasks that lie just ahead. (BYU
  Devotional, Jan, 1989)