deseretgov

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  1. Well I dont know if it mentions it in the Book of Mormon. But Lehi's group obviously weren't the only inhabitants of the "New World" since DNA shows us otherwise.
  2. An interesting thought I had. Could the Liahona also have served as a communications device. Say when Lehi's group arrived in th new world and encountered local tribes. Could the Liahona have displayed the translation of whatever a person in anothe language was saying? And then also translate what Lehi's party was saying.
  3. I've been wondering recently about the Lilith story and if it has any remote basis in fact.
  4. Now that would have been amazing to have the Temple Square Christmas lights after an endowment. After my endowment my dad treated everyone to dinner in the temple(Idaho Falls) cafeteria. I don't really remember what we did after that. I remember the ride home and thinking about what had happened. I just remember thinking that it was the thing I was looking for. Our church just seemed so dry and "regular/plain." I loved the ceremony and dare I say "cultish" aspect. Sorry for saying cultish I just couldn't think of a better word to describe it.
  5. I feel that the factors that went into determining where we where born into this life are so many that it is impossible for us to know exactly why. Only God and His infinite knowledge could make those decisions.
  6. I think this is a really interesting topc. Unfortunately, I don't know much about it. It would be interesting to create a map of pre-deluge human expansion based on this information.
  7. Be sure to tell your boss' wife about what he wanted you to do.
  8. I don't know but the revelations in our current Doctrine and Covenants have been changed(in some cases quite a lot) from the more original versions in the Book of Commandments. I think some of these changes were done by Joseph Smith but many were done by the church at a later date.
  9. Couldn't you just set up a webcam and go on Yahoo Messenger. Then log into a secondary yahoo account from work and access the primary account's webcam. You'd probably have to send an invite from the primary account to the secondary account. Then just turn the monitor of the computer off and nobody would know anything is running. You could also conceal the camera somehow. I don't think there is any lock that sends a message to your phone.
  10. I'd love to have that book. Maybe we should make that book the new Doctrine and Covenants.
  11. Why not have Santa be real? Just develop and elaborate delivery network of old fat men who dress up and deliver presents Christmas night. Then people could tell kids that Santa is real and it would be true.
  12. Wait, there wasn't really a burgler?
  13. That was a good read. For me a "loose control" is the only way to explain why Biblical passages in the Book of Mormon contain KJV errors. It's because they were copied from the KJV not from the exact text on the gold plates.
  14. Well I'm still not sure of the situation but I'm going to make a comment based on my understanding of the situation. If my understanding of the situation is wrong then I apologize. One thing I cannot stand is a girl who sends out a missionary and then marries or intends to merry someone else while the missionary is out. I don't care if the Holy Spirit did tell you that some other guy "Is the One." It's just plain dishonorable! If you send that missionary out to the Philippines and you are still "together" Then you better be willing to commit to two years too. If you can't do that, then break up with him before he leaves. I guess the only thing worse than a girlfriend who leaves a guy while he is on his mission, is a return missionary who dates(or tries to date) a girl who has a missionary out. My friend and neighbor who also went to the Philippines had a girl friend. she waited for him to get home but in the end they broke up. But at least she had the decency to fulfill her commitment. But I'm just preaching to the choir here right? You're going to wait for your guy to get back from his mission before you go putting the moves on some other guy right? If there is anything that disrupts a missionary's ability to feel the spirit and teach it's a Dear John letter. It's preferable to not have a girlfriend when a guy goes out on a mission. But if a guy does have a girlfriend she needs to remain faithful and not worry him. Because if a missionary is to concerned over his girlfriend he can't focus on receiving the Spirit. And he will have trouble teaching. And if a missionary gets a Dear John letter sometime it can affect them for months. That's MONTHS of not having the Spirit. And when a missionary cannot teach by the Spirit, the Spirit cannot speak to those people being taught. And now the girl is part of the reason why the people in his area cannot feel the Spirit and receive the gospel.
  15. They could relocate to the south pole and use flying penguins. After all Santa used to be based the south pole but the reindeer in the north pole bribed him with candy canes and cheap elf labor! It's too bad we can't just stop all this north pole/south pole arguing and be one happy bi-polar family.
  16. Well I used the think it would be April 6, 2030. 2000 years since the beginning of Christ's ministry and 200 years since the founding of the Church. But then I found out the Christ was probably not born in the year 1. He was more likely born in the year 4BC. So I'm currently revising my theory.
  17. Imconfused. If your boyfriend the one you had a promting about and is just about to leave on a mission? But then a month ago you recieved a promting about another guy. But your still dating the other guy who will be home next make because he left two years ago. I'm so confused! Who is who and what is the situation?
  18. Is it under the ice like in "the Santa Clause" or in a castle like in "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer."
  19. I agree. I believe it was a much more fluid proccess. That is why the King James text appears in the Book of Mormon. It wasnt an exact translation of the symbols engraved on the gold plates.
  20. This is like saying, that because the ancient europeans did not know about the Americas then the Americas didn't exist. The occurence of an event is not influenced by the knowledge of a person about that event. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody knows about it does it really fall?