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In an article by Neal Maxwell, Willing to Submit he says: To me he's saying it was repeated 3 different times to emphasize how importance this concept is. As Elder Maxwell points out, this one concept can be a big stumbling block to many otherwise good people.

Yeah, #5 is wrong in your profile.

Well, I'm still undecided on it, especially when I read quotes such as this: I'm also not totally sold on the "That because Joseph Smith got his calling and election made sure that would have to assume that Emma got it also" because it is possible for one half to be blessed in ways the other might not if they don't endure. However, quite possibly this could be why some people assume that she had hers made sure while in this life too which is all I'm curious about. I truly know that she is and will be with Joseph through eternity.

This article here was posted over on MADB and the following is the last paragraph in it: I know that Joseph had his election and calling made sure, but I find no evidence of Emma's in the Doctrine and Covenants. I could have missed it, I looked through searches and didn't see anything. My question is, did Emma has hers made sure before Joseph died? And if so, where it is found.This is the second time that I've seen this brought up. The first was on the old Deseret Book message board before it got shut down and I never got an answer to this. If its not true, I'm wondering what is causing people to say this. I'm not looking for this to point any fingers at Emma as I have a great respect and admiration for her.

Actually JBS is right, to be resurrected (the Salvation he's talking about) we don't have to do anything.. but to reach the Celestial Kingdom (Salvation as Exaltation or Eternal Life) we do have to do the works of the ordinances plus be learning to live our lives following the pattern Christ set here on earth. Think this is when terminology gets in our way.

They fled because Lehi was trying to call the people to repentance or Jerusalem would be destroyed. The people were beyond listening and wanted to kill anyone (there was more than just Lehi at the time preaching about this) who was doing this. So the Lord warned Lehi to take his family and flee before they could kill him.

Man, I know that feeling. Finally found some New Balance tennis shoes that my feet don't have to mold to fit, they are awesome :)

That's the beauty of having Jesus as our judge on what he'll allow his atonement to cover. He knows us even better than we know ourselves and frankly, I believe, that He is on our side. He has been there, he knows what its like to be tired, depressed, sick, etc and He is not expecting us to be perfect every minute of every day. But that doesn't mean that He doesn't expect us to not *strive* to do our best the times we can, and He knows when that is.I agree with JWhitlock on why the brethren speak this way, it is much like why the Lord only emphasizes the highest kingdom in the Celestial Kingdom. They wants us *striving* to be there and not think we can't do it and settle for something less. I don't know if you've read Stephen Robinson's "Believing Christ," but it really helped me understand this principle. Yes, I am going to have my bad days and not always be up to par, but Christ knows the difference between that and outright rebellion against trying.

I didn't get a chance to see it I'll have to keep an eye out on BYU channel or the LDS website.

I have the first two books of his BoM class. Wow, takes him like 10 classes to get past first chapter of Nephi. All I see is "I, Nephi, being born of goodly parents..." and he sees tons of confirmation of the times. What an amazing man. I didn't realize they were on DVD, I may have to add them to my Christmas list too :)

haha, there is that :) I won't go to LDS Talk either. One time was enough for me.

is she really a wolf in sheep's clothing?!

That's the way the organ in our chapel is too. We have one organist that plays it on auto and one that plays it on manual. The only problem I have with the piano, is our chapel is a big stake center chapel and the piano has a harder time being heard in it. Otherwise piano's make the best accompaniment's to songs.

Confession gives us the ability to lose the burden from our shoulders, stand up straight, and like what we see in the mirror again.

Many moons ago when I took those lessons, i rented a small organ from the store. It did make a difference. When I think back the lessons and the rental really had to have been reasonable because extra money was not in our vocabulary then.

I was having the same thoughts as checkerboy as I was reading your OP when I saw that he had posted them. You will know when the time is right. The volume issue would come with practice. We have an organist who for awhile absolutely drowned out any singing but he does great now. I dabble at the piano, but am by far not a pianist. Once long ago a music store in my area offered organ lessons for a very reasonable price and I loved it. Don't look at it as just learning it for hymns but for having fun, when the time is right. :)

Funny, I was thinking last time I was at the Temple about making my own dress too for the same reason. The material of my dress is not hot weather friendly. I saw a worker in a dress I like that looked like it was made from a cotton material and I thought to myself that looks homemade, and then I saw a lady in my session with the same dress! haha Evidently they found it somewhere. But that got me thinking about making my own too. I'm not positive on the sleeves, but I don't think I've seen a dress with less than to the wrist for a sleeve so I would shoot for that at least.

I checked my lines, they have a few of the tabloids on the top shelf and mostly Good Housekeeping and Better Homes and Garden type stuff lower down. I guess if you want the racier stuff you have to find the Magazine section because I've never really noticed those type near the registers.

So Lot's wife may not of been turned into a pillar of salt?! I get a slight stab of disappointment finding out too many of the stories might not be real. Darn you scholars anyway!!

See you learn something new everday

If she were to never convert, you can be sealed to each other after she dies, or even afterward if you both die if you have children. Then it will be up to the greatest judge of all to determine how it comes out in the end. But the best way is to try, if at all possible, to do it while alive and enjoy all the blessings that come from it.

We had our lesson on it today. We must be a conservative group. We struggled to use the words to describe some of the wrong acts. In fact, the teacher couldn't even say the "M" word. Someone else had mentioned it and the teacher when she came to it, said "What Sister Soso said". After hearing a little of what they talked about in Priestood, it would of been interesting to have access to each other classes and see how differently men and women talk about this.

"Some of the functions in the celestial body will not appear in the terrestrial body, neither in the telestial body, and the power of procreation will be removed." (President Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 2: 288; emphasis in original)I ran into this quote also more on topic. This is from 1909 issued by the then First Presidency of the church ( Joseph F. Smith, John R. Winder, and Anthon H. Lund) "The doctrine of the preexistence, revealed so plainly, particularly in latter days, pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly Parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality. . . .Jesus, however, is the firstborn among all the sons of God--the first begotten in the spirit, and the Only Begotten in the flesh. He is our elder brother, and we like Him, are in the image of God. All men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity. (Encyclopedia of Mormonism 4:1667-68, emphasis added. The two parts of this quotation have been reversed for the sake of clarity) All this is from Matthew B. Brown's book, The Plan of Salvation.

(Wish fall was in the air here.. going on 6pm and its still in the 90s on my desert )

We know what we have to do to be exaltated... maybe there was a premortal way that only a few actually achieved! But my official answer to your 3 questions is: I don't know :)