The Creation Life in the Great MTC

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The Creation Life in the Great MTC

• Khinckley1_at_yahoo.com

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With football over, Big Lou has taken up soccer
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BYU Studies- Dr. Lester Allen

• After some struggle, I decided to ask the Lord
  how evolution and the creation relate to each
  other.
• After personal preparation, I petitioned the Lord
  and asked, "What is the answer?" There came
  clearly into my mind the statement, "There is an
  answer."
• I didn't learn what the answer is, but it is
  reassuring to know that it all fits together. I
  have come to realize that I don't need to know
  the answer now. Possibly I couldn't understand it
  if I had it.
• My awarenesshas changed me from one who thinks
  he knows to one who knows he doesn't know from a
  position of hesitant uncertainty to one of
  admitted ignorance. I have developed a great
  appreciation for the unknown.
• While I don't know what I don't know, at least I
  am coming to realize that I don't know what I
  don't know!

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Earths creation

• How the earth was created is not as important as
  why it was created

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Welcome to the MTC!

• In creating a Mortality Training Center
  (the Earth),
• the Eternal Plan of Salvation requires three
  things of the Creator and future creators
• Organize

Abraham 41 And then the Lord said Let us go
down. And they went down at the beginning, and
they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the
heavens and the earth.
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Brigham Youngs Vision

• Joseph Smith
• tell the people to follow the Spirit of the
  Lordif they will, they can find themselves just
  as they were organized by our Father in Heaven
  before they came into the world.
• Our Father in Heaven organized the human family,
  but they are all disorganized and in great
  confusion"

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Question

• Why is organization is so important to the Lord?

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Organization?

• My father died when I was a boy and left my
  mother with ten children to raise. I remember
  hearing my mother express her feeling that he
  would come back and visit us and let us know
  that he was thinking of us. That impressed me. I
  remember wondering when he would come, if he did
  at all. I went to a solemn assembly in the St.
  George Temple, almost expecting to see him, but
  he didn't come.
• Then a few years ago, my brothers and sisters got
  together and organized our family. We went to a
  priesthood genealogy seminar in the day and
  talked in the evening and, under the inspiration
  of the Spirit, drew up the constitution and
  bylaws for our family. Then we called a meeting
  of all our father's children and grandchildren
  over eight years of age. We had a great meeting.
  The Spirit was there
• after the meeting, one of the little
  granddaughters said to her mother, "Mama, who was
  that man standing by Grandma all during the
  meeting?" Our hearts burned within us as we
  realized that our father had been there at his
  meeting. That solemn assembly was not for him,
  but how could he think of missing his own family
  meeting, organizing in his name? I testify that
  the veil is very thin when families meet, and
  often family members from both sides attend (J
  Ballard Washburn, Ensign, January 1977, p. 38).

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Welcome to the MTC!

• The Mortality Testing Center requires three
  things of the Earth and its inhabitants
• Organize
• Multiply and replenish
• Question- What are we to multiply?

Abraham 4 28 And the Gods said We will bless
them. Andwe will cause them to be fruitful and
multiply, and replenish the earth,
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Where have we been planted?
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Welcome to the MTC!

• The Mortality Testing Center requires three
  things of the Earth and its inhabitants
• Organize
• Multiply and replenish
• Submit in all things

3 Nephi 11 10 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom
the prophets testified shall come into the
world. 11 And behold, I am the light and the life
of the world and I have drunk out of that bitter
cup which the Father hath given me, and have
glorified the Father in taking upon me the sins
of the world, in the which I have suffered the
will of the Father in all things from the
beginning.
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Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

• Even as we rehearse the details of the
  Atonement, you can be certain that with some in
  this world if is not fashionable or flattering to
  speak of submitting to anybody or anything.
• At the threshold of the twenty-first century it
  sounds wrong on the face of it. It sounds feeble
  and wimpish. It just isnt the American way.

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Elder Holland continues

• The path to a complete Christian experience most
  likely will pass through the Garden of
  Gethsemane.
• We will learn there, if we havent learned it
  before, that our Father will have no other gods
  before him- even (or especially) if that would be
  god is ourself.
• It will be required of each of us to kneel when
  we may not want to kneel, to bow when we may not
  want to bow, to confess when we may not want to
  confess (On Earth as it is in Heaven, Jeffrey
  and Patricia T. Holland, Deseret Book, pp 130.)

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Elder Marion G. Romney
Even though he did not doubt, Elder Romney was
astonished to see Idas Eyes open as he concluded
the blessing. Somewhat stunned by all that Had
happened, he sat down on the edge of the bed only
to hear his wifes Frail voice for the first
time in months. She said, for goodness sake,
Marion, What are you doing here? He didnt know
whether to laugh or cry. He said, Ida, how are
you? With that flash of humor so characteristic
of both of them, She replied, compared to what,
Marion? Compared to what?
Helaman 10 4 Blessed art thoufor those things
which thou hast done sought thine own life, but
hast sought my will, and to keep my
commandments. 5 And now, because thou hast done
this with such unwearyingness, behold, I will
bless thee forever and I will make thee mighty
in word and in deed, in faith and in works yea,
even that all things shall be done unto thee
according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask
that which is contrary to my will.