I was reading a book the other day and came across a section I wanted to share.The book is called The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Ablom. In short there was a yacht that sunk on there are 11 or so survivors who are on a lifeboat and on their 3rd day adfirt they …
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I was back in my ancestral home a few weekends ago, for my sister’s wedding. When an intresting thing occurred and I was able to see a gospel principle in it. It was a Friday evening and I was driving through town with my young brothers in the car. I needed to take a busy …
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I want to relay a miracle that happened to me some few weeks ago and then the great struggle I have had with it since. At the beginning of April, I went on a trip to see a number of temples in Norther California and also a hockey game. Try as I might I could …
This past Sunday (3/17) I taught on 2nd Nephi 26-30 and had some few things I wanted to share that I learned in my study with some assistance from an institute teacher. In 2 Nephi 27, which is also Isaiah there is much mentioning about a sealed book. “And behold the book shall be sealed” v.7 …
We worship a God of order. For every crime there is a punishment. For every sin a condemnation. There is a cosmic scale which is held in balance. We call this balance justice. For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Newton’s third law Today is Palm Sunday. Roughly 2000 years ago Jesus …
I’ve been thinking about the difference between better and better off. There is a TV show my family grew up with called Dharma and Greg, where a hippy and a lawyer get married after having known each other for only a day. It’s a pretty fun show and I’d recommend the first season (as that …
The other night I was on the way back home from hanging with some friends. It was like 11pm and I had gone over my calories for the day as it was. On my drive I realized that something was up with my body. For a minute I was like unto the meme. Hold up. …
I was reading in Leviticus the other day and had a thought I wanted to share with you. In chapter 22 it is talking about proper use of Holy thing, mostly holy food from the sacrifices. In large part the chapter is about who can and cannot eat of these holy things. What stood out …
I was reading a star trek book a bit back that started the churning of thoughts in my mind. In the book the crew of the Enterprise come in contact with a deeply telepathic race, who’s minds all connect. They are, however, individual people rather than a hive mind but they have the potential of …
There are many hard to understand sections in the scriptures. I’ve always seen these sections as time and places where we have the opertunity to wrestle with God’s word much like Jacob wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. And like Jacob of we try with out might having faith in God then we will …
