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Patriarchal Blessings: Do I Have a Divine Mortal Mission? By Craig R. Frogley  · June 24, 2019 Life's Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Cover image via Gospel Media Library. In Part 1 of this fireside given in the Paris Visitor’s Center we explored: “the question of lineage; why is it important? How does the patriarch know? Why do different members of the same family sometimes have different lineages? Is there such thing as patriarchal priesthood? Why are Patriarchs ordained to this office in the Melchizedek Priesthood, instead of being set-apart? It can be read  HERE .   In this Part two, Patriarch Serge Bamy and I will explore “Do I have a divine mortal mission? With a blessing that seems short on details or seems so very general, how would I find any sense of mission if I had one? What is the connection of a patriarchal blessing to the patriarchal authority of the temple and its ordinances? How do patr...

This article was very interesting to me!  I hope you like it, from Meridian Magazine. Are There Better Things You Could Be Doing? By Lynne Perry Christofferson  · June 19, 2019 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE This article is an excerpt from the author’s book “ Sisters, Arise! “. I’m remembering a summer from my childhood. Each morning, after completing our house and yard chores, my brothers and I played out in the sunshine, enjoying our vacation from school. My mother spent her hours tackling housework and laundry, fulfilling her church assignments, typing dissertations for university students, and feeding her hungry children…But at noon each weekday Mom escaped to the basement—where it was nice and cool—and munched on her sandwich while watching  General Hospital  and  One Life to Live. I often joined Mom in front of our little black and white TV set.  At first I paid little attention to...

I really am inspired each day by Latter Day Light Daily Devotional.  I'm sharing some things they printed today, and thoughts below, also from them, which go along with this week's study from "Come Follow Me".  I hope you enjoy it! Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL June 20, 2019 Jesus Christ SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Doctrine and Covenant 76:40-43 " And this is the gospel, the glad tidings, which the voice out of the heavens bore record unto us---That he came into the world, even Jesus, to be crucified for the world, and to bear the sins of the world, and to sanctify the world, and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness; that through him all might be saved whom the Father had put into his power and made by him; who glorifies the Father, and saves all the works of his hands . . . " www.Latterdaylight.com Please share Latterdaylight with your family and friends Thank you!...