INTRODUCTION: If I were teaching this lesson, I might begin by pouring water into several different shaped containers and asking class members to comment on what we can learn from that activity about the qualities of water. Someone will probably say that water takes the shape of its environment. If you then ask for words that describe water, you might get words like these: Flimsy, unsound, mercurial, capricious, changeable, wobbly, fickle, erratic, unreliable, undependable, vacillating, untrustworthy, variable, mutable, impermanent, unsteady, uncertain, transitory, ephemeral, inconsistent, precarious, and unstable. I am amazed at how many words the English language has to describe this rather undesirable characteristic. But this lesson will require us to think about them, because we are going to talk about three people who were much like water (one was even compared to water), and one young man who was as unlike water as it is possible to be.

As Mormons, we are very familiar with the pre-mortal “war in heaven.” We often teach the dramatic events from the pre-mortal world as follows: after gathering His spirit children together and proposing they come to an earth to progress and become more like Him, our Heavenly Father knew that we would fall from His grace and require a savior to make possible our improvement and eventual return to Him. The “firstborn” Jesus Christ offered to fulfill the Father’s plan and give Him the glory. Lucifer, “son of the morning” proposed an alternative to the Father’s plan—he would save all the Father’s children in return for the glory for himself.

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While a missionary in Canada, Zach Morris created a unique emotional cover of a well-beloved hymn. On his blog, he writes:

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