Sunday, March 6, 2016
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Youth Mutual Theme 2016 - PRESS FORWARD!!
Click on the following link to find music and articles centered around this years theme:
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Seek Learning by Faith
Seek Learning by Faith
...Nephi teaches us, “When a man speaketh by the power of the Holy Ghost the power of the Holy Ghost carrieth [the message] unto the hearts of the children of men” (2 Nephi 33:1). Please notice how the power of the Spirit carries the message unto but not necessarily into the heart. A teacher can explain, demonstrate, persuade, and testify, and do so with great spiritual power and effectiveness. Ultimately, however, the content of a message and the witness of the Holy Ghost penetrate into the heart only if a receiver allows them to enter. Learning by faith opens the pathway into the heart...
...The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled. Learning by faith is essential to our personal spiritual development and for the growth of the Church in these latter days. May each of us truly hunger and thirst after righteousness and be filled with the Holy Ghost (see 3 Nephi 12:6)—that we might seek learning by faith...
Click on the following link to read the complete address from Elder David A. Bednar:
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Stay by the Tree
Lehi’s vision of the tree of life is a powerful parable on enduring to the end. Click on the link below to read Elder Pearson's full address:
Saturday, January 30, 2016
The Plan of Salvation
Click on the link below for a very simple diagram of the plan of salvation from The Friend.
A more in depth version of the plan can be found at:
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Then, click here to quiz yourself:
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Alma Chapter 30 - Notes
President Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency taught that our belief in God gives us freedom:“Korihor was arguing, as men and women have falsely argued from the beginning of time, that to take counsel from the servants of God is to surrender God-given rights of independence. But the argument is false because it misrepresents reality.
When we reject the counsel which comes from God, we do not choose to be independent of outside influence. We choose another influence. We reject the protection of a perfectly loving, all-powerful, all-knowing Father in Heaven, whose whole purpose, as that of His Beloved Son, is to give us eternal life, to give us all that He has, and to bring us home again in families to the arms of His love.
In rejecting His counsel, we choose the influence of another power, whose purpose is to make us miserable and whose motive is hatred. We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose” (“Finding Safety in Counsel,” Ensign, May 1997, 25).
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Sometimes the only defense we have against those who attack our faith is to share our testimony of the truth. There is no embarrassment in taking this approach—Alma, a prophet of God, used this approach with Korihor. As Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained: “Korihor’s arguments sound very contemporary to the modern reader, but Alma used a timeless and ultimately undeniable weapon in response—the power of personal testimony” (Christ and the New Covenant [1997], 121).
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Read the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon has 240 chapters, so:
If you read … Then you’ll finish the book in …
4 chapters/day = 2 months
3 chapters/day = 11 weeks
2 chapters/day = 4 months
1½ chapters/day = 6 months
1 chapter/day = 8 months
If you read … Then you’ll finish the book in …
4 chapters/day = 2 months
3 chapters/day = 11 weeks
2 chapters/day = 4 months
1½ chapters/day = 6 months
1 chapter/day = 8 months