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They're like Forest Gump. You get history told by "someone who was there". If you just keep 'life is like a box of chocolates' in the back of your mind as you read, you'll enjoy them. Please don't quote from them in SS or RS, there's only so much sighing I can do. :)

You would like the book The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. Its a whole different world up in those trees.

Sure did. Those guys are crazy, but its a good thing someone is willing to do the work. It reminds of Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs, etc. on the Discovery Channel. I'm glued to the TV.

NO. Section 132 is often misunderstood. Verses 1-33 refer to celestial marriage,verses 34-66 cover plural marriage. Throughout the chapter different types of marriages are discussed (vs 15-16 temporal marriage, or how most of the world marries; vs 18 someone who says they have a eternal marriage but did not have it performed by the proper authority - actually I see this increasing as more people want family relations for ever but don't want 'Mormonism', also this would cover all those 'polygamy groups' out there; vs 19 temple marriage) and different peoples' marriages are discussed for clarification (although its sometimes more confusing). You might want to get copies of the D&C and Church History Seminary teachers manual and the student study guide. Just a couple of quotes from them. President Spencer W. Kimball: “Now, all Latter-day Saints are not going to be exalted. All people who have been through the holy temple are not going to be exalted. The Lord says, ‘Few there be that find it.’ For there are the two elements: (1) the sealing of a marriage in the holy temple, and (2) righteous living through one’s life thereafter to make that sealing permanent. Only through proper marriage . . . can one find that strait way, the narrow path” (“Marriage is Honorable,” in Speeches of the Year: BYU Devotional and Ten-Stake Fireside Addresses, 1973 [1974], 265–66). As shown in the verse summary for Doctrine and Covenants 132, verses 58–66 concern “laws governing the plurality of wives.” Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord commanded the practice of plural marriage in the early days of the Church; in 1890, through President Wilford Woodruff, He ended that practice (see Official Declaration 1). Elder Bruce R. McConkie explained: “Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation. Nephi and his people were denied the power to have more than one wife and yet they could gain every blessing in eternity that the Lord ever offered to any people. In our day, the Lord summarized by revelation the whole doctrine of exaltation and predicated it upon the marriage of one man to one woman. (D. & C. 132:1–28.) Thereafter he added the principles relative to plurality of wives with the express stipulation that any such marriages would be valid only if authorized by the President of the Church. (D. & C. 132:7, 29–66.)

I underline (and/or color over) scriptures, parts of scriptures, words that 'speak' to me, give me clarity, etc. I also write definitions, explanations, or symbols for scripture chains in the margins or where I can fit them in. For long definitions not in the BD I write them in on the blank pages found after the BD. Then there are the 'glue-ins' - quotes, songs, etc. that pertain to a scripture or subject that I either tape in or just stick in the pages. For those of you who are hesitant to 'mark-up' your scriptures, teach seminary, you'll get over it. :)