Beneath the Wraps

                 This will be my tenth post on promoting my growth due to The Come Follow Me program which was started in 2019. That was the same year that the church cut back to just two meetings though we were encouraged to take the opportunity to keep the third hour with us in our homes. We started out 2019 studying the New Testament.  Unbeknownst to any of us it was a prerequisite for being able to study on our own during the pandemic as we spent more hours at home than at church that year. Book of Mormon was the topic that year. 2021 Doctrine and Covenants and finally 2022 with Old Testament.  The cycle started again last year with the New Testament.  This year ’ s topic is The Book of Mormon.  Manuals were passed out for those who wanted physical books.  Seemingly more detailed than in year s ’ past.          You can find the online manual at this site.  At the end of each lesso...

  In his “Teaching With Power” John 2-4 video, Brother Wilcox shares this slide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ7QShWWP7U with the challenge to find a way to use an object as part of a lesson on teaching the scriptures or more importantly, Christ.   I then turned to “Don’t Miss This” where Emily Freeman compared a discarded titanium bicycle that one might see as worthless.   She talked about the value in restoration and compared this to the “worth of souls” as viewed by the others and how the Savior sees us before we are restored.   Even in our "discarded" state, the Savior knows us and what (or who) we can become   I have accepted Ben Wilcox’s challenge and am excited about this quest.   I may create some posts about how I would use each of this (though the rubber duck seems to be stumping me the most of these)  It may take a while.  I hope to be guided by the Spirit as I embark this journey.

              Yesterday we hid twenty plastic eggs for Jenna to find.  The Easter egg hunt has always been a  tradition  for her.  She has participated in at least one hunt every year - and it is usually with someone other than us.  But as we are stuck inside this year and I won't allow her to go further than the mailbox, I decided to create a hunt for her.  We had purchased Easter candy a while ago and also included scriptures and other Easter thoughts so we could include the true meaning of Easter as well. Because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to. – Jeffrey R. Holland  His Atonement makes available all of the power, peace, light, and strength that we need to deal with life’s challenges – Sheri L. Dew For the Atonement of the Lord and His gift of resurrection—for this sublime message of  Easter  – Russell M. Nelson To understand the meaning of death, we mus...