Month: October 2023

The River Crossing

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Michaela waited for the gunshot that would signal the beginning of the race. Her Arabian mare, Athena, pawed at the ground but held her position.

They had been training together for this cross-country race for weeks, and now all that practice was going to pay off. She knew it as surely as Athena knew what to do when the gun went off. Michaela had scouted the route ahead of time so she would know every bend, every rise, every dip. These scenes flashed through her mind in succession. Her heart was already pounding.

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The Crimson Sweater

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As springtime replaced winter one year, a certain six-year-old girl received a bright crimson sweater. Her mother intended for her to wear it when outdoors while temperatures could still be on the cool side. But it didn’t take long for the girl to misplace the sweater, casting it off one afternoon when it grew too warm to wear it while she played in the backyard. She left it in a corner of the yard where family members seldom went. The weather continued to be warm enough that the girl forgot about her sweater. In her busyness, and without a need for it, her mother forgot about it too.

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King Tut’s Tomb: A True Parable

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Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles gave a talk earlier this month where he spoke of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun and how this relates to us:

“Jesus Christ Is the Treasure”

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Haste to Repent

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Paul the Apostle wrote, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) and so looking to commandment keeping as a savior is a vain exercise. The prophet Nephi would add, “no unclean thing can dwell with God; wherefore, ye must be cast off forever” (1 Nephi 10:21). So in a sense, all who are capable of committing sin have a terminal illness.

The good news of the gospel is that this terminal illness has a known cure. 

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