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Deseret News 2004 Church Almanac In the more than 600 pages of the new almanac, readers will find: the best available reference of history and statistics of the Church, the greatest untold story of the Church: the Church welfare program, the number of members in each country, the top 10 states of membership in the U.S., all General Authorities, past and present, and all auxiliary general presidencies, photos of all 116 operating temples, Review of the news events of the past year, church statistics for the past year and more! >> CLICK HERE |
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"THE VISION OF THE TREE OF LIFE" by Ted L. Gibbons  QUOTE OF THE WEEK:. . . it is not the book's dramatic crises, its history, its narrative that are so important, but its power to transform men into Christlike beings worthy of exaltation. (Spencer W. Kimball, Conference Report, April 1963, p.67) INTRODUCTION: The Lord has often taught his servants by means of inspired dreams. Some of the most remarkable revelations in the scriptures have come in the form of dreams. Consider the following accounts and try to identify the person who had the dream from which each is taken. Then try to identify the meaning of the symbols in each dream. A rolling stone that filled the earth (Daniel 2:34) A ladder (stairway) ascending into heaven (Genesis 28:12) Seven fat cows & seven skinny cows (Genesis 41:2) Unclean animals lowered from heaven in a great sheet (Acts 10:11-15) Eleven bowing sheaves of corn (Genesis 37:7) An iron rod (1 Nephi 8:19) In 1 Nephi 8, the prophet Lehi had a remarkable dream filled with symbols that are easily applied to our own lives. If you have one available, look at a picture of Lehi’s dream and identify the symbols contained therein. Can you name the symbols and their meanings. A dark and dreary waste a large and spacious field a tree the fruit of the tree a path an iron rod a river a great and spacious building Each of these symbols will apply to the life a disciple. Learning what they mean is worth a great effort! > Read the Entire Book of Mormon Lesson
 DESERT BLOSSOMS #120by Ted L. Gibbons Joseph Fielding Smith was the oldest man to be called to serve as President of the Church. He was sustained President when he was 93 years old. Lorenzo Snow was the next oldest—84, and Wilford Woodruff next, at 82. President David O. McKay was the oldest to occupy the presidency; he served some four months beyond his ninety‑sixth birthday. President Smith died just seventeen days short of his ninety‑sixth birthday (“The Soul of a Prophet,” Ensign, August 1972, pp. 42-46). He was born on July 19, 1876, and died July 2, 1972. He was a child of promise and of prophetic potential: President Smith was born as a child of promise. Asked recently in my presence how he got his name, he said, “I came by it honestly.” The fact is that his father, President Joseph F. Smith, had three of his five wives at the time, and had promised Julina Lambson that her first son would be named Joseph Fielding, Jr. Julina had three daughters but no sons, and so she went before the Lord and, like Hannah of old, “vowed a vow.” Her promise: that if the Lord would give her a son, “she would do all in her power to help him be a credit to the Lord and to his father.” The Lord hearkened to her prayers, and she kept her promise to him; and he also manifest to her, before the birth of the man child, that her son would be called to serve in the Council of the Twelve (Bruce R. McConkie, “Joseph Fielding Smith: Apostle, Prophet, Father in Israel,” Ensign, Aug. 1972, 29). |
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