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I got this from "Book of Mormon Central."  I would encourage all of you to go there, and subscribe to their free daily articles.  That is where you'll find "Tyler and Tayler," who give the most inspiring videos each week on the Come Follow Me subject for the week.  All of it is free, and so so so inspiring! Post contributed by  Richard Draper July 9, 2020 Save     Four Horsement of the Apocalypse by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov. Image via Wikimedia Commons. This is a guest post by Richard Draper, which may  also be read at the BYU New Testament Commentary website . Approximate reading time: 12 minutes. Basically, I am (and have always been) an insecure person seeking for security. At an important point in my life and career, I was introduced to the wonder of scriptural prophecy. It was in an eleventh grade Seminary class where the teacher introduced us to the Revelation of St. John the Divine. He piqu...

I just learned something!  Perhaps you may already know, but it is exciting!  Go to www.familysearch.org, and after you sign in, and the heading across the top says:    Family tree, search, memories, Indexing, and Temple -- Click on "Temple".  You may have some reserved, but look in the list going down:  All Reserved, Printed, Not printed, Shared, and then Ordinances Ready! Click on the Ordinances Ready tab!  It will bring up the categories that you can check to see if a name is available -- Baptism and Confirmation, Initiatory, Endowment, Sealing to Parents, and Sealing to Spouse.  You can click on whatever ordinance you would like to do -- and print it out, and take it to the Temple!  If you don't have a name of your own, it searches any available, and either brings them up, or offers some names which have been submitted to the Temple by others, which you can print and do!   EXCITING!   The work is done for y...

Our Stake Conference, with President Russell M. Nelson and others!  Dec. 9th and 10th, 2017     We were excited for around 2 weeks when they announced that President Russell M. Nelson, his wife Wendy, and also Elder Berne S. Broadbent of the 70's, and his wife Suzanne would be our visiting General Authorities! Our Stake President McReynolds, in his talk Sunday morning first of all mentioned how people asked him if he was nervous with Pres. Nelson coming.  He said that he figured that Pres. Nelson could literally see into his heart!  and see if he needed a "valve job"!   He talked about last year's youth conference in which they enacted several Book of Mormon scenes.  One was having a long 500 foot rope, which was the "rod of iron" mentioned in Lehi's dream.  There were leaders along the way, taking the part of tempters, trying to get them to leave the "rod of iron", and go do something fun -- such as a video game, sports, food, etc...