Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
196th dedicated temple
Dedicated: 15 Sep 2024
By: Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Book of Mormon
Alma 58:30-59:13
* How can we come to "trust in God" like Helaman and his army?
April General Conference
'Confidence in the Presence of God'
President Russell M. Nelson
Up at 2:38 a.m. I had my prayers and studied a name of Christ. These are the names I studied this week: Alpha & Omega, Bread of life, Deliverer, Good shepherd, Lamb of God, Light of the world, living water.
The Robles , Jacob, Natalie, Ethan, and Makenzi spoke in sacrament meeting today. I especially liked Natalie's and Makenzi's talks. Here is how Natalie started out her talk. She said: Why did I come to church today. She then said that Elder Giminez says that "Jesus is his why." She talked about how in the D& C the Lord calls Joseph Smith and others His friends. She asked us to ask ourselves the question: "How do I make the Savior my friend?"
Makenzi shared some things Elder Stevenson has reminded how we can be a light to the world:
1) Live the gospel 2) care for the needy, 3) invite others to receive the gospel, 4) do family history work.
I gave the Mack's and the Peralta's a sympathy card for the death of their son, brother, and uncle. It had several scriptures to read. Chloe thanked me for the card. Ruthie Wilhelm got a pencil poked into her eye so she is wearing a protective plastic device on it to keep herself from touching it. Julie Wilhelm is here for awhile. She works for the US Forestry and is here visiting from Utah.
I was the first to speak in the second hour. I stressed the importance of studying the "Come Follow Me" lessons at home and coming to church prepared to share and discuss what we have learned. I used the example of the lesson on D& C 88 and went through the subheadings and how I use a study guide and write in my "Come Follow Me" journal. I bore my testimony of the importance of gospel study in our lives.
Brother Wilhelm was next, the Brother Knight, and Brother Allen. The bishop spoke at the end. He wants the members of the ward to read the scriptures and study the lessons before coming to church on Sunday, hence the reason for this meeting.
Bishop Hunsaker came up to me afterwards and said: "When you got up to speak I turned to Brother Knight and said: 'She's so cute.'"
I am old enough to be his mother.
We did not have marriage/parenting class today.
After lunch and a rest I went over my weekly schedule. It looked something life this:
Monday: F.H.E. with MacArthur's
Tuesday: Woodland Lake & covered bridge with Halcomb's
Wednesday: Cress Miller's birthday cake
Thursday: Chicken noodle soup for Kate Hahn's dinner
Friday: Temple with Ruth and Jewell Turley
Saturday: Scottie MacArthur's soccer game
James had a temple recommend interview with Steve Allen today. Now he needs to have it signed by a member of the stake presidency.
Stacy called me this afternoon. Joshua is quitting his job at George & Gaither and Alex his getting him a job at the restaurant he works at in Scottsdale. It is a high end dining establishment for the rich & famous and is not anywhere I would ever want to go. It's called Ocean 44. Stacy is worried about transportation. The nice thing about G&G is that it is just a couple of miles away from their house. This restaurant is in north Scottsdale. It looks like Joshua might need to use some of that $8,000 he has saved to buy a car.
Stacy is sick with a virus right now. She told me a date she went on with Adam which made me happy as their relationship has not been good since Adam became an adult. Adam bought the tickets and Stacy bought the popcorn and drinks.
I am reading the preface to "The Second Coming of Our Lord" and I am amazed at all the changes since the first publication of the book.
So many interesting things have happened in the world and within the Church.
I did not realize that we have six missionaries from our ward, four out in the field and two service missionaries. Those in the field:
Elder Wilhelm in Newport Beach, California, Elder Finnegan in the Seattle, Washington mission, Sister Pronger in Independence, Missouri and Sister Jameson in Australia. Brother Deven Crane is here in Arizona on a service mission and Sister Bridget Jordan who is in our ward and is serving a family history mission. Since we have been in the ward we have not had this many missionaries out at one time.
Paul and Joshua gave someone a blessing of healing today. Joshua anointed and Paul gave the blessing. This is a first for Joshua and Stacy was very proud.
"Living prophets in our day - who receive revelation from God to teach and lead us,...are increasingly inviting us to come unto Christ."
- Gary E. Stevenson, AGC 2025
D&C 93:38
Every spirit of man was innocent in the beginning; and God having redeemed man from the fall, men became again, in their infant state, innocent before God.
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