2. Are these things easy for you to say
yes to:
Feed the missionaries
Accepting a Calling
Visiting Teaching
Come Follow Me lessons
Reading the Book of Mormon
Coming to church
Moving
3. 1829
June 1828 . Emma gave birth and the baby died and then she almost died
June 1828 JS spent almost a year translating the plate and then lost 116 pages of the manuscript
June 1828- August 1829- Plates and Power were taken away
1828 Joseph was poor and could barely afford to pay his rent
Sept 1828- feb1829 He had no one to scribe for him
1828 -He still had to support his family
1820-1829- People were threatening his life and his families life
1829- He had to move into a strange families tiny home and live with 7 other non family members
1829- He had to move a second time
4. A lot of people get caught
Up in the
“How the Book of Mormon
was translated.”
Instead of the asking Why.
5. Why did Joseph Smith
translate
Of the Book of Mormon ?
Why did the Smiths, Knights, Martin Harris,Josiah Stoal,
Oliver Cowdery, and the Whitmers aid in the work?
6. What makes you want to be part of
the gospel of Jesus Christ?
7. I didn’t want to be a missionary
at 18, but I want
To be a missionary now.
What changed?
8. 3 Reasons:
1. We feel the LOVE of God
He knows are name
We Hear Him
1. We feel the POWER of the book of Mormon,
Scriptures, and general conference talks.
1. We want others to have the same knowledge
9. Why did Joseph Smith
translate
Of the Book of Mormon ?
Why did the Smiths, Knights, Martin Harris,Josiah Stoal,
Oliver Cowdery, and the Whitmers aid in the work?
10. He saw the Plan.
He knew Jesus.
Joseph met with Moroni 22 times.
Joseph didn’t just read the book he TRANSLATE it.
11. Power of the Book of
Mormon.
Another Testament of Jesus
Christ.
12. Power of the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon is the keystone in our
witness of Jesus Christ, who is Himself the cornerstone of everything we do.
It bears witness of His reality with power and clarity…
It broadens our understanding of the doctrines of salvation. T
he book of Mormon...was written for our day.
In (it) we find a pattern for preparing for the Second Coming…
(The) Book of Mormon teaches us truth (and) bears testimony of Jesus Christ…
But there is something more.
There is POWER in (it)
which will begin to flow into your lives the moment you begin a serious study of the book.
You will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception.
You will find the power to stay on the strait and narrow path.
-Ezra T. benson, 1986
13. POWER:
The very first word in the Doctrine and Covenants is hearken.12 It means “to listen with the intent to
obey.”13 To hearken means to “hear Him”—to hear what the Savior says and then to heed His counsel. In
those two words—“Hear Him”—God gives us the pattern for success, happiness, and joy in this life. We
are to hear the words of the Lord, hearkento them, and heed what He has told us!
What will happen as you more intentionally hear, hearken, and heed what the Savior has said and what He
is saying now through His prophets? I promise that you will be blessed with additional power to deal with
temptation, struggles, and weakness. I promise miracles in your marriage, family relationships, and daily
work.
And I promise
that your capacity to feel joy will increase even if turbulence increases in your life.
- President Nelson
14. What is the Power you
Have felt while reading the
Book of Mormon?
15. The Book of Mormon
Was the 2nd step.
Before the Church, Before the Melchizedek Priesthood, Before Temples
19. Early Converts Felt the Power
● Smith Family
● Josiah Stole- employer, helped with wagon to get gold plates
● Knight Family- employer,Colesville Branch, 60 family members, helped with wagon to get plates
● Emma Hale
● Martin Harris - well to do farmer whose wife doesn’t approve the church, helps scribe late in the 116 pages, the book of
Lehi
● Oliver cowdery- school teacher, boarded at Smith’s home
● Whitmer Family
20. Whitmer Family
● Peter and Mary Whitmer
● Fayette, NY
○ 30 miles from Harmony, PA
● David Whitmer (son), met Oliver
Cowdery in Palmyra
● Respected Family, 7 children
● German Descent , Presybterian
● Oliver Cowdery marries a daughter
● 20 revelations written in this home
● Book of Mormon translation completed
● Church is organized
25. How are you HIS hands ?
Have you seen HIS hands?
26. Doctrine of Covenants is a
compilation of Questions and the
Lord answering those questions.
The early Saints wanted to know
what they could do in the work.
28. 14:9 Behold, I am aJesus Christ, the bSon of the cliving God, who
dcreated the heavens and the eearth, a flight which cannot be hid in
gdarkness;
10 Wherefore, I must bring forth the afulness of my bgospel from the
cGentiles unto the house of Israel.
11 And behold, thou art David, and thou art called to assist;
31. D&C 14:8 And it shall come to pass, that if
you shall ask the Father in my name, in
faith abelieving, you shall receive the bHoly
Ghost, which cgiveth utterance, that you
may stand as a dwitness of the things of
which you shall both ehear and see , and
also that you may declare frepentance unto
this generation.
36. Come unto Jesus :
1. 1. Come unto Jesus, ye heavy laden,
Careworn and fainting, by sin oppressed.
He’ll safely guide you unto that haven
Where all who trust him may rest.
2. 2. Come unto Jesus; He’ll ever heed you,
Though in the darkness you’ve gone astray.
His love will find you and gently lead you
From darkest night into day.
3. 3. Come unto Jesus; He’ll surely hear you,
If you in meekness plead for his love.
Oh, know you not that angels are near you
From brightest mansions above?
4. 4. Come unto Jesus from ev’ry nation,
From ev’ry land and isle of the sea.
Unto the high and lowly in station,
Ever he calls, “Come to me.”
37. D & C 15 and 16:
John Whitmer and
Peter Whitmer Jr.
John scribes and Peter helps in printing and the both become witnesses
Only Differences Between Sections is He calls them by name.
38. D&C 14&15;4
For many times you have desired of me to know that
which would be of the most worth unto you.
Do you know what is most worth to you?
What are your desires?
40. ● Of the 11 witnesses,
6 leave the church
● Martin and Oliver leave
come back
● All witnesses never
deny their Witness of
the Book of Mormon
and the divinity of the
book
● Go to woods to
pray,Martin has to
leave group
● See “Ark of Covenant”
● Burden relieved from
Joseph
41. 4 And this you shall do that my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., may not
be destroyed, that I may bring about my righteous purposes unto the
children of men in this work.
9 And I, Jesus Christ, your aLord and your God, have spoken it unto
you, that I might bring about my righteous purposes unto the
children of men. Amen.
- Jesus, wants to fulfill His purpose. To bring to pass
the immortality and eternal life of man
6 And he has translated the abook, even that bpart which I have
commanded him, and as your Lord and your God liveth it is true.
-Giving His own Testimony
42. 5 And ye shall testify that you have seen them, even as my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.,
has seen them; for it is by my power that he has seen them, and it is because he had
faith.
7 Wherefore, you have received the same power, and the same faith, and the same gift
like unto him;
-We can all have that same power, faith and gift
8 And if you do these last acommandments of mine, which I have given you, the
bgates of hell shall not prevail against you; for my cgrace is sufficient for you, and you
shall be dlifted up at the last day.
- His grace will lift you up and bring you to his presence
3 And after that you have obtained faith, and have seen them with your eyes, you shall
atestify of them, by the power of God;
- Come to know for yourself then you will want to testify
43. Given the Book of Mormon
and Doctrine and Covenants
to ultimately prepare you to
Meet God.
45. Mary receives her own witness while milking a cow..
Moroni shows her the plates.
“You have been very faithful and diligent in your labors, but you are
tried because of the increase of your toil; it is proper therefore that
you should receive a witness that your faith may be strengthened”
46.
47. God knows your sacrifices and
your sorrows. He hears your
prayers. His peace and rest will be
yours as you continue to wait on
Him in faith.
-Elder Hales
48. How has the Lord taken away
or lightened our burdens?
49. What makes you want to be part of
the gospel of Jesus Christ?
50. 1. DESIRE
2. Asked. Knocked
3. Humility
4. Faith
5. Willing to work
6. Willing to repent and continue to work
7. Shared what they learned
8. Hopefully we can endure till the end
