Lynne's Scripture Journal D&C

April 17, 2017 Sections 15-16 Scriptures Value Of, History Value Of, Spiritual Guidance, Lord’s Love and Tender Care, Family History, Waits Family History, Scripture Teaches Us, Prayer, Answers to Prayer, Waits Family Letters, These two sections are similar to section 14. Each section is addressed to a different member of the Whitmer family, for these 3 men came to Joseph to ask specifically, and with “much earnestness” (the scriptures stipulate the importance of our DESIRE in obtaining answers) to know what the Lord would specifically have them do. These 3 sections take me back to our time in the Netherlands. I would be in our tiny kitchen there preparing dinner. During the course of my work, each of our 6 children would poke their head in and ask ‘What are we having for dinner?’ The reaction of each child to my answer was not always enjoyable for me to deal with. So in order to save myself the time and energy of repeating all the reasons why we were eating something that...

March 19, 2017 Section 3:1 Lord’s Work Will Go Forward, 116 Lost Pages, Answers to Prayer, Lord Knows Much More Than We Do, Faith in the Lord Not Man, Repentance, Lord’s Vision, The Wentworth Letter was written by Joseph Smith in 1842. I think that this event (having the 116 pages stolen after repeatedly asking the Lord to change the ‘Do Not Allow Martin Harris To Take The Pages To Show To Those Of His Extended Family” answer) might have been one of the things that taught Joseph Smith and helped to form the knowledge on which he based this paragraph of the Wentworth Letter: “ No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, til it has penetrated every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.” That lesson took Joseph through deep a...