New Beginnings…New Beginnings…

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A Juggle of MomsA Juggle of Moms

A Muscle of EldersA Muscle of Elders

A Starve of EldersA Starve of Elders

A Preen of LaurelsA Preen of Laurels

A Tantrum of ToddlersA Tantrum of Toddlers

A Smell of ScoutsA Smell of Scouts

A Giggle of BeehivesA Giggle of Beehives

A Snooze of High PriestsA Snooze of High Priests

From Last WeekFrom Last WeekCategory AGood thingsZionHealthPleasureGoodPeaceGatheringMartyrsRight

Category BBad ThingsBabylonSicknessPainEvilMiseryScatteringPersecutorsWrong

Spiritual Spiritual MaturityMaturity

GoodGood BadBadOverlyIdealistic

Cynical(Betrayed)

BadBad

Charity GoodGoodAnd BadAnd Bad

New BeginningsNew Beginnings2 Nephi 5: 4-8A new start

requires a new name…

Sacrament Prayer: D&C 20: 77

Kirtland Temple: 109: 26

Elder OaksElder Oaks Willingness to take upon us the name of Jesus Christ can therefore be understood as willingness to take upon us the authority of Jesus Christ.

According to this meaning, by partaking of the sacrament we witness our willingness to participate in the sacred ordinances of the temple

and to receive the highest blessings available through the name and by the authority of the Savior when he chooses to confer them upon us.1985 April Conference

Their Center?Their Center?2 Nephi 5: 14-16

City Plot, designed by Joseph City Plot, designed by Joseph SmithSmith

Far West, MissouriFar West, Missouri

NauvooNauvoo

Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City

From the dedicatory From the dedicatory prayerprayer

D&C 10930 And hearken thou to the

supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward the temple.

The RighteousThe RighteousThese are the “spirits of the just, made perfect…” Heb 12:23

2 Nephi 9: 13-18

A Little LearningA Little Learning2 Nephi 9: 28, 29

From the Isaiah 51 (2 Nephi From the Isaiah 51 (2 Nephi 8)8)

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you:

for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD;

joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.