Blu-ray Disc DVD Player

The Masners loaned us some church DVDs.  The door for the videos would not open.  We pushed all the buttons, it still would not open.  Carol returned them and was asked it she liked them.  She the reported that our DVD player was not working.  They wanted to buy us a new one, but Carol expressed her feelings that we could buy our own.  Jim then said that he would fix it.

He came this afternoon and brought with him a new Blu-ray Disc DVD Player.  They are not that expensive, about $80.  We took old DVD out and installed the new Blu-ray in.  There was some updating to do.  We also established it to our router and will be able to watch church films and other videos. 

Jim tried to fix the old player but was unsuccessful.  He hooked it back up and we will be able to use the tape player.   He left, I went out to work in the nursery, and  Carol watched a movie.  Carol called me because she could not get the regular TV programing.  I tried and I could not.  We tried several more times.  Finally we called Jim to come back and help us.  He did got it back working.  The reason why we couldn't fix it was there was picture partially covering the signal receiver.

3 Nephi 26

This chapter contains some great concepts.  Some are listed below.

9 And when they [us] shall have received this, which is expedient that they should have first, to try their faith, and if it shall so be that they shall believe these things [the teaching's of Jesus Christ] then shall the greater things [the ordnances received in the temple] be made manifest unto them.

 10 And if it so be that they will not believe these things, [the teaching's of Jesus Christ] then shall the greater things[the teaching's of Jesus Christ]  be withheld from them, unto their condemnation.

  

Testimony Bearing

Testimony meeting day has inspired me to make some comments.  I did not want to give my opinion of testimony bearing.  I have quoted church leaders on what they have taught about bearing testimony.

One of Many Testimonies of Brigham Young. 

Undertaking to prove that the Book of Mormon is true learning and worldly wisdom "... it would have been to me like the smoke which arises only to vanish..."  He said, "I know by the power of the Holy Ghost that the Book of Mormon is true, ..." (Deseret News, Feb. 9, 1854)

A Testimony is:

• Not an exhortation.
• Not an experience
• Not an expression of gratitude or love 
• Not a public confession
• Not a sermon or a talk
• Not a long explanation of how you know 
• Not a public confession
• Not saying "I have a testimony" 

Elder Jay E Jenson of the Seventy  October Ensign 2005

Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said, “[I] worry that too many of our members’ testimonies linger on ‘I am thankful’ and ‘I love,’ and too few are able to say with humble but sincere clarity, ‘I know.’”         “Pure Testimony,” Ensign, Nov. 2004

“learn to express a brief, heartfelt testimony of our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, and the truths of the restored gospel” (First Presidency letter, Feb. 14, 2013)

"We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies."  Elder David A Bednar of the Twelve Apostles    October Ensign 2009

“Three great truths must be included in every valid testimony:

• That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of the world (D. & C. 46:13)
• That Joseph Smith is the Prophet of God through whom the gospel was restored in this dispensation; and 
• That The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the ‘only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.’ (D. & C. 1:30)” (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. [1966], 785–86).

The Day That the English Parliment was Nearly Bombed

Joan of Arc was born in January 1412 in France.  in the third phase of the 100 year war with England.  England occupied many of the major cities in France.  When Joan was 13 years old she received some revelations that she would be able to help France drive out the English.  Over the next five years she received the confidence of the French leaders and she lead the soldier from one victory to another.  She was captured and after a trial that lasted many days she was burned at the stake.

It took the French soldiers twenty more years to completely drive out the English. 

The Spanish Armada was an attempt to conquer England and remove the protestants.  They were not successful.

The were a group of Catholic leaders who decided to take matters in their own hands.  They planned the destruction of  the parliament building when it was in session, and when the queen of England would be attending.  They rented an apartment next the parliament building and dug a tunnel form their apartment to under the parliament building.

They placed in it thirty barrels of gun powder and covered it with faggets.  A friend of one of the participants was going to be in the building at that time.  He sent him a letter and told him not to be there.  He was then to burn up the letter.  He did not burn it up, but gave it to his supervisor, who gave it to his, etc. They found the gun powder and arrested the group.

It was felt by some that God had intervened and saved the king.

Had they been successful in destroying the parliament building containing the king and members of parliament and commons it may have been a major change in the history of England. This may of had a great a impact on the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the prophet Joseph Smith.

quotes

The writer of this poem was speaking about the Catholic leaders who valued wealth more than the church members.  This may also apply to those employers who get wealthy on the back of the employees.

"For they love not the sheep, but only for the fleeces"   

And who shall have done either ill, or done well.
But the Scripture saith, and we ought to believe,
That all men of the world shall pass two ways.
The good shall go to glory, the wicked to torment.
But he that shall not believe this departure,
Let him search the Scripture from its beginning,  

A 15th-century Waldensian poem