Favorite Scriptures

• Palms 46:10

                - Be still and know that I am God.

• D&C 87:8 - 2013 Theme

                 - Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come; for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the Lord.

• D&C 115:5 - 2012 Theme

                  - Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations

• Moroni 10:32 - 2014 Theme

                  - Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, them is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are forfeit in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.

• Articles of Faith 1-13 

                   1: We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

                   2: We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
           
                   3: We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by   obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

                   4: We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: firs, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.

                   5: We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof

                   6: We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.

                   7: We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.

                   8: We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

                   9: We believe all that God has revealed, all the He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God

                  10: We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and its paradisiacal glory

                  11: We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

                  12: We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.

                  13: We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

• Joseph Smith-History 1: 15-20

               -15: After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.
              -16: But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction-not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as i had never before felt in any being-just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.
             -17: it no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other- This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
             -18: my object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)-and which i should join.
             -19: I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that : "they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof."
             -20: He again forbade me to join with any of them; and may other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I when home. And as i leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, "Never mind, all is well - I am well enough off." I then said to my mother, "I have learned for myself the Presbyterianism is not true." It seems as though the adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me/ Why the opposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in my infancy?

• D&C 18:10

                -Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God

• D&C: 14:7

                -And, if you keep my commandments and endure to the end you shat have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God.

• 1 Nephi 3:29

               -And it came to pass as they smote us with a rod, behold, an angel of the Lord came and stood before them, and he spake unto them, saying: Why do ye smite your younger brother with a rod? Know ye not that the lord hath chosen him to be a ruler over you, and this because of your iniquities? Behold ye shall go up to Jerusalem again, and the Lord will Deliver Laban into your hands.

• 1 Nephi 4: 7-21

• Mosiah 13:12-24

             

• 2 Nephi 9:23

               -And he commandeth all men that they must be baptized in his name, having perfect faith in the Holly One of Israel, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.