BISHOP JORDAN MERRILL
We were Warmly greeted today by Marilyn and Fred Smith
Conducting: 2nd councilor, Earl Blake Snow.
Announcements:
Book of Mormon reading for next week Alma, chapters 32 through 35 "The Word is in Christ unto Salvation."
The ward picnic will be in Pine Valley on Tuesday, August 2. When you pass the Ranger checkpoint station take the first right into Forsyth campground.
Invocation: sister Jean Jolley.
Released: Bill and Lyla Lee Smith as Weblos leaders.
Steve Adam as physical facilities Cordinator.
Stustained: Gary and Jeanene Benson as physical facilities Cordinator's.
Awards: Jemelle Mullins daughter of Malia and Jeff Mullins received her. Faith in God award today.
Our youth speaker was Alina Eyring. Her topic was choice and accountability. She told us that the little day to day choices are the things that trip us up. And that life is God's gift to us and how we live it is our gift to him. She received her patriarchal blessing here recently and was told that many would except the gospel because of her teachings.
Allisyn Wright spoke to us about pioneers as this is Pioneer day. She told that they always expressed gratitude in spite of the many hardships and sacrifices they had to make. One mother from England who died on the plains had told her daughter that she wanted to go to Zion so that her children could be raised in the gospel of Jesus Christ. "Blessed, honored Pioneers! Blessed, honored mothers."
Brad Wright's topic was Temples and Temple work. He told about one of his ancestors, Mariner Wood Merrill Who was president of the Logan Temple right after it was built. About how he was standing at his window one day and saw a large group of people coming up the hill and onto the temple grounds. They were poorly dressed. He thought to himself "we don't have room for all of these people in the temple" but they just milled around the temple grounds. Finally he went out and asked the obvious leader who they were and what was going on. The person informed Pres Merrill that he was Satan and that they had come to stop the work of the temple and that he would disseminate his people throughout the region. For 10 to 12 years there was little work done in the Logan Temple. These beings did their work well apparently, whispering into the ears of the people that they didn't have time to go to the temple etc.
Then he gave another example of an 83 woman from Basin, Wyoming who drove 300 miles to the Idaho Falls Temple and spent the rest of the afternoon doing endowment sessions; the entire next day doing endowment sessions and half of the day the next day before driving back to Basin, Wyoming, a round trip of 600 miles. There is an obvious lesson here for those of us who have the temple just 10 minutes away!
Benediction: Brother Gordon Jolley.
FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Do we all know and can we tell an investigator or our nonmember friends what the three main purposes of the Book of Mormon are? We've gone over these in our Sunday school class for the last two Sundays. They are
(1. To show what great things the Lord has done for our fathers.
(2. So that we may know the covenants of the Lord.
(3. To convince both Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ!
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