The Truth Restored!

Life is a beautiful blessing! Today is sunny and warm, birds chirping, clear blue skies, with the hum of a passenger jet flying by. Beautiful sounds of Sunday hymns are playing lightly in the background as I ponder the beauties of Heavenly Father's creations. The Sabbath Day is truly a blessing and delight! I love Sundays and the peace and serenity they bring to my soul. No worries of work, stress of school, or other worldly distractions...but a day of reflection and deepening of one's faith.

1. D&C 128: 23
   23 Let the ^amountains shout for joy, and all ye valleys cry aloud; and all ye seas and dry lands tell the wonders of your Eternal King! And ye rivers, and brooks, and rills, flow down with gladness. Let the woods and all the trees of the field praise the Lord; and ye solid ^brocks weep for joy! And let the sun, moon, and the ^cmorning stars sing together, and let all the sons of God shout for joy! And let the eternal creations declare his name forever and ever! And again I say, how glorious is the voice we hear from heaven, proclaiming in our ears, glory, and salvation, and honor, and ^dimmortality, and eternal life; kingdoms, principalities, and powers!

Happy Mother's Day Mom!

Another Sunset~ Horizon of eternity

I decided to catch a few more sunset shots this evening! The weather has been so beautiful here in Idaho and it was warm today! Yahoo! I love taking sunset pics as some of you are aware. Thank you for your comments! :) I hope to make calendars as a hobby in the near future with sunset, nature, and wildlife photos.

17 By these things we ^aknow that there is a ^bGod in heaven, who is infinite and ^ceternal, from everlasting to everlasting the same ^dunchangeable God, the framer of heaven and earth, and all things which are in them;
~D&C 20:17

As I look upon these beautiful sunsets I cannot help but ponder God's magnificent creations and as I look out on the horizon I have gratitude in my heart for the beauty of the painted sky. I thank Heavenly Father as it makes me ponder eternity for its never ending beauty.

~Christopher

God's Artwork! ~ Simply Magnificent ~

Courtney and I decided to take a Sunday drive around 7:30 pm tonight after a 2 hour nap. We drove around the Burton area and then went down by Bear World and the Snake River. Next we drove out through Menan and around the Buttes ('R' Mountain). During our drive I snapped a few shots. The moose and sunset were my favorite. We saw the moose along a canal bank in Burton.



Sunsets in Idaho are just beautiful! These photos were taken tonight on our Sunday drive!

EASTER BLESSINGS!

HAPPY EASTER!

General Conference was superb, as always!

The prophet, President Thomas S. Monson and his two counselors, President Henry B. Eyring and President Dieter F. Utchdorf, the Twelve apostles and some of the quorum of 70's.
The magnificent LDS Salt Lake City Temple
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Prophet and Apostles, and the quorum of the Seventies!

The Conference Center has trees all over the top of it and gardens...beautiful when the grass is green!

General Conference is a great blessing for Latter-day Saints. Every six months we get the privilege and opportunity to hear the words of God's living prophet and the twelve apostles. It really is unique compared to the rest of society and whats going on around the globe. I had the neat opportunity of going to the conference center in Salt Lake City, Utah and being there at it live. I took all of the above pictures on my weekend visit!

To listen to any of the sermons given by the prophet or apostles please visit http://lds.org You may watch or read them.

Prepare Every Needful Thing!

WORLDWIDE LATTER-DAY SAINT GENERAL CONFERENCE
Hear the Prophet's Voice!

This coming Saturday and Sunday is General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. God's living prophet, his two counselors, and the Twelve Apostles will speak to the world via satellite broadcast as well as on line. You can watch or listen to these brethren speak on April 04 and 05, 2009. For a complete schedule please visit: http://lds.org The President and Prophet of the Church: Thomas S. Monson, 1st Counselor: Henry B. Eyring (with glasses) and 2nd Counselor: Dieter F. Utchdorf

1. D&C 88: 119
   119 ^aOrganize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a ^bhouse, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God;

The gospel of Jesus Christ is RESTORED in its fullness and is a wonderful blessing to all of those who have discovered its existence and have accepted it! My life has been fully enriched because of the doctrines and principles of Christ's gospel.

In Amos we learn that God will do nothing unless it is through His prophets! 7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, ^abut he ^brevealeth his ^csecret unto his servants the ^dprophets. ~Amos 3:7 This has been a TRUTH from the beginning of time when Heavenly Father spoke with Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. Each of these Old Testament prophets held the Priesthood of God and received revelations given from God above to be a spokesman (mouthpiece for God) for the children upon the earth.
Each prophet had a different calling and purpose to fulfill while on the earth! It is no different today. God has restored His church and gospel back to the earth for the final time before Christ's Second Coming.The amazing Conference Center which is huge inside as you can see!
Daniel 2:44-45~ Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is revealed to Daniel—The king saw a great image; a stone cut from the mountain without hands destroyed the image; and the stone grew and filled the whole earth—The stone is the latter-day kingdom of God.
44 And in the ^adays of these ^bkings shall the God of heaven ^cset up a ^dkingdom, which shall never be ^edestroyed: and the ^fkingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall ^gbreak in pieces and ^hconsume all these ⁱkingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the ^astone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made ^bknown to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

1. Adam~ Found in the book of Moses 1: 39-41 39 For behold, this is my ^awork and my ^bglory—to bring to pass the ^cimmortality and ^deternal ^elife of man.

40 And now, Moses, my son, I will speak unto thee concerning this earth upon which thou standest; and thou shalt ^awrite the things which I shall speak.

41 And in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as ^anaught and ^btake many of them from the ^cbook which thou shalt write, behold, I will raise up another ^dlike unto thee; and they shall be ^ehad again among the children of men—among as many as shall believe.

2. Noah~ Found in 2 Peter 2:5

5 And spared not the old world, but saved ^aNoah the eighth person, a preacher of ^brighteousness, bringing in the ^cflood upon the world of the ungodly;

3. Abraham~ Found in Galatians 3:8

8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the ^aheathen through faith, preached before the ^bgospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all ^cnations be ^dblessed.

4. Moses ~ Found in Lev. 27:34

1. Lev. 27: 34
   34 These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

The Lamb of God
5. Jesus Christ ~
John 10:14
14 I am the good ^ashepherd, and ^bknow my ^csheep, and am known of mine.
John 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the ^away, the ^btruth, and the life: no man ^ccometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 3:16
16 ¶ For ^aGod so ^bloved the ^cworld, that he ^dgave his ^eonly begotten ^fSon, that whosoever ^gbelieveth in him should not perish, but have ^heverlasting ⁱlife.

The Washington D.C. Temple
6. Joseph Smith~

D&C 20: 1-3, 37, 70

1 The ^arise of the ^bChurch of Christ in these last days, being one thousand eight hundred and thirty years since the ^ccoming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the flesh, it being regularly ^dorganized and established agreeable to the ^elaws of our country, by the will and commandments of God, in the fourth month, and on the sixth day of the month which is called April—

2 Which commandments were given to Joseph Smith, Jun., who was ^acalled of God, and ^bordained an ^capostle of Jesus Christ, to be the ^dfirst ^eelder of this church;Joseph Smith and the First Vision:

7. President Thomas S. Monson ~ Current Living Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Thomas S. Monson, “Come unto Him in Prayer and Faith,” Liahona, Mar 2009, 2–7

Photograph by David Newman

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”1 So spoke the wise Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

Jacob, the brother of Nephi, declared, “Look unto God with firmness of mind, and pray unto him with exceeding faith.”2

In this dispensation, in a revelation given to the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord said, “Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.”3

This divinely inspired counsel comes to us today as crystal clear water to a parched earth.

We live in troubled times. Doctors’ offices are filled with individuals who are beset with emotional problems as well as physical distress. Divorce courts are overflowing because people have unsolved problems. Human resource administrators in government and industry work long hours in an effort to assist people with their problems.

One human resource officer assigned to handle petty grievances concluded an unusually hectic day by placing facetiously a little sign on his desk for those with unsolved problems. It read, “Have you tried prayer?” What he may not have realized was that this simple counsel would solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than could be obtained in any other way.

A prominent American judge was asked what we as citizens of the countries of the world could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He carefully replied, “I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer.”