1/26/2018 - Section 78:9-16
January 26, 2018 Section 78: 9-16 Councils, Unity of the Saints, Satan’s Tactics, Spiritual Growth, United Order, In v 8 the Lord instructs Newell Whitney, Joseph Smith & Sidney Rigdon to sit in council with the saints, and then in v 10 He tells them why: “ Otherwise Satan seeketh to turn their hearts away from the truth, that they become blinded and understand not the things which are prepared for them.” This is pertinent to us at all time, and I find it especially here as we are working with both senior and junior missionaries from vastly different backgrounds and different viewpoints—but that really isn’t that different from every ward we’ve ever been in—it just seems to more evident here because we go to church with them, as well as working with them every day and into the evening, as well as living in the same high rise apartment building—and until we get our car—we spend hours crammed together in the Philippine traffic as we go to and from the Miss...