Prison-Temple Experience

“Most of us, most of the time, speak of the facility at Liberty as a “jail” or a “prison”—and certainly it was that. But Elder Brigham H. Roberts of the First Council of the Seventy, in recording the history of the Church, spoke of the facility as a temple, or, more accurately, a “prison-temple.”  Elder [...]

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The Garden Cycle – Spiritual Gardening

For those that may not live in the south-eastern United States, let me give you a little glimpse into the world out here.  There is something amazing and beautiful about nature in North Carolina.  You see animals, bugs and other creatures crawling, scampering, running, hiding, jumping, slithering, and pretty much every other verb you can [...]

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Moving Lessons

In our ward where we live right now we have a large student population.  There is a separate singles ward, so we get most of the young married folks.  Many of them move into our ward and are only here for 2-5 years.  The transient nature of half of our ward brings its own challenges [...]

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Penny Candy Lesson

When I was a kid we lived near a convenience store that sold penny candy.  For those of you who might be a little younger, this was candy that actually lived up to it’s professed name… candy that only cost a penny!  Our uncertain times of inflation have reached down to the youngest member of [...]

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A Book with a Promise

(How to Download Video – Direct Video URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cVyTbX1kM) I remember when I was in high school I had an amazing teacher who challenged me to take Moroni’s challenge to heart and begin an earnest study of the Book of Mormon to find out for myself that it was true.  I began reading every [...]

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Our Decision to Have Kids

When we first got married we talked about having kids and decided it would be best to wait until the Husband and the Wife were out of school.  We moved off to college and began our new lives together.  It wasn’t but a couple of months when we found ourselves in a joint priesthood/RS lesson [...]

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