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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...

What We Have Learned – Let Us Not Forget By  Carolyn Nicolaysen  · June 23, 2020 Pandemics are unwelcome visitors, but they can teach us much about our own goals and priorities. Hopefully, we have learned the importance and joy of real, quality time with family. Hopefully we have learned friends are important to our mental health and wellbeing, teaching us to be a better friend and neighbor. Most importantly, hopefully we have learned to trust in the Lord, to pray for His guidance and to experience the peace only He can bring. What many have learned is how really unprepared they were for a self-quarantine and all that entails. Many have discovered birthdays and graduations still happen. Some, meals don’t cook themselves. Others, stores do run out of supplies. Still others, there is a good reason to have a substantial savings account. And, the idea that things happen to other people, well, sometimes we are the other people. Over the past 12 years...