Sunday, July 17, 2016

Alma 34:1-16

1 - Amulek begins to teach.

5 - The great question which is in your minds is whether the word be in the Son of God, or whether there shall be no Christ.

6 - My brother has proved unto you, that the word is in Christ unto salvation.

7 - Zenos said that redemption cometh through the Son of God, and also Zenock and Moses.

8 - I will testify unto you of myself that these things are true.  I do know that Christ shall come among the children of men, to take upon Him the transgressions of His people, and that He shall atone for the sins of the world.

9 - There must be an Atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish.

10 - There must be an infinite and eternal sacrifice made.

12 - There can be nothing short of an infinite atonement which will suffice for the sins of the world.

13 - After the great and last sacrifice there should be a stop to the shedding of blood; then shall the law of Moses be fulfilled.

14 - This is the whole meaning of the law, every whit pointing to that great and last sacrifice will be the Son of god, infinite and eternal.

15 - He shall bring salvation to all who believe on His name.  The intent of the sacrifice is to bring mercy unto men that exercise faith

unto repentance.

16 - Thus mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands of justice; therefore only unto him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of redemption.

GC: "In Praise of Those Who Save" President Dieter F. Uchtdorf.

I did my usual early morning Primary preparation.  This is my lesson for today:

It's the story of Helaman and the 2,000 Stripling Warriors

and how they saved the Nephites and not one 

of them was killed.  It's a pretty amazing story

of faith and courage and I think the kids really enjoyed it.

Braylin, Curtis, Zemira, and two visitors, Rusty Allen's nieces, Bentley and Brinden were in my class.

Rusty and Jackson when Rusty left and then

when he returned.  Jackson has grown so much,

and so has Rusty, only in a different way.

Rusty with all of his siblings.

Rusty Allen gave a report of his mission to Guadalajara, Mexico today in our sacrament meeting.  He has such a sweet spirit about him and his talk was amazing!  He has become a spiritual giant.  The bishop spoke after Rusty and he spoke about his mission and a prayer that he gave as to whether he should stay on his mission and go home which became the turning point and the source of all this blessings in his life.  What a wonderful meeting.  I am so glad Sheri's family was here but I especially wish Alex would have been here. The Trezise's went home after sacrament meeting and took Joshua with them.

In sharing time today we talked about temples.  The San Diego temple, to me, is the most beautiful.

It is so beautiful and white.

Last week we had 8 children in sharing time.  This week we had 20.

After church it was nice to go home and have a bean and cheese from Burger House waiting for me and a green mixed burro waiting for James.  Thank you Sheri and Ian!

Sheri also made meatball subs for dinner.  They were delicious!

Sheri making her homemade meatballs.

I began preparing for next week's Primary lesson about Lehi and Nephi in Prison and I also played a couple of games of Five Crown's with Ben and Sheri. I was the big time loser both times.

James participated in the Worldwide Indexing Day.

Here is an idea for a kids clubhouse I would like James to build.

Simple but nice.

It rained hard just before Church got out and was overcast and rainy most of the rest of the day.  To me, it was the perfect day.