Reading 1 – Mosiah 7:12-15
Reading 2 – Mosiah 7:21-22
Reading 3 – Mosiah 8:13-18
A story told by Joseph Knight
about the morning when Joseph first received the plates gives us a small
insight into the Urim and Thummim. "After breakfast," he said,
"Joseph called me into the other room...He set his foot on the bed, leaned
his head on his hand and said,...'It is ten times better than I expected.' Then he went on to tell length and width and
thickness of the plates and said he, 'They appear to be gold.' But he seemed to think more of the glasses or
the Urim and Thummim than he did of the plates, for, said he, 'I can see
anything; they are marvelous."
Reading 4 – Elder Elder Boyd K.
Packer said: “The scriptures speak of prophets as ‘watch[men] upon the tower’
who see ‘the enemy while he [is] yet afar off’ and who have ‘beheld also things
which were not visible to the natural eye … [for] a seer hath the Lord raised
up unto his people.’
“[Many years ago]
the Brethren warned us of the disintegration of the family and told us to
prepare. … The weekly family home evening was introduced by the First
Presidency. … Parents are provided with excellent materials for teaching their
children, with a promise that the faithful will be blessed.
“While the
doctrines and revealed organization remain unchanged, all agencies of the
Church have been reshaped in their relationship to one another and to the home.
… The entire curriculum of the Church was overhauled—based on scriptures. … And
years were spent preparing new editions of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the
Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. …
“We can only
imagine where we would be if we were just now reacting to [the] terrible
redefinition of the family. But that is not the case. We are not casting
frantically about, trying to decide what to do. We know what to do and what to
teach. …
“The course we
follow is not of our own making. The plan of salvation, the great plan of
happiness, was revealed to us, and the prophets and Apostles continue to
receive revelation as the Church and its members stand in need of more” (in
Conference Report, Apr. 1994, 24–25; or Ensign, May 1994, 20).
Reading 5 – Mosiah 9:1-3
Reading 6 – Mosiah 11:2-5, 7-8,
14-15
Mosiah 11:19
Reading 7 - President Spencer W.
Kimball wrote: "The Lord has blessed us as a people with a prosperity
unequaled in times past. The resources that have been placed in our power are
good, and necessary to our work here on the earth. But I am afraid that many of
us have been surfeited with flocks and heads and acres and barns and wealth and
have begun to worship them as false gods, and they have power over us. Do we
have more of these good things than our faith can stand? Many people spend most
of their time working in the service of a self-image that includes sufficient
money, stocks, bonds, investment portfolios, property, credit cards,
furnishings, automobiles, and the like to guarantee carnal security throughout,
it is hoped, a long and happy life....
"As the Lord
himself said in our day, 'They seek not the Lord to establish his
righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his
own god, whose image is the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that
of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the
great, which shall fall.' (D&C 1:16)." (Teachings of Spencer W.
Kimball, pp 357-358)
Reading 8 – Mosiah 11:20-25
Reading 9 – Mosiah 11:27-29
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