Lynne's Scripture Journal D&C

April 18, 2017 Section 17:1-9 Desire Importance Of, Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail Against You, Three Witnesses, David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, Testimony, Holy Ghost Power Of,   Hope Faith Belief Work, In the History of the Church, 1:52-53, Joseph describes what happened during the translation process after they “ascertained that three special witnesses [D&C 5:11-15: And in addition to your testimony, the testimony of three of my servants, whom I shall call and ordain, unto whom I will show these things, and they shall go forth with my words that are given through you.     Yea, they shall know of a surety that these things are true, for from heaven will I declare it unto them.    I will give them power that they may behold and view these things as they are…] were to be provided by the Lord.   “ Almost immediately after we had made this discovery, it occurred to Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and the aforementioned Martin Ha...

March 23, 2017 Section 5:1-10 Repentance Effect Of, Judge Not, Gifts of the Spirit, Martin Harris, Gift of Discernment, Charity Tolerance Love Insight, Conversion Process Of, Goals My , Martin Harris’ behavior surprises me. After breaking his covenant with Joseph Smith, showing the 116 pages to more people than the ones he had promised he would, thus loosing the pages—that he would come to Joseph with the request that he be allowed to see the gold plates. But upon my looking farther into this, I find that I am judging too harshly and am not forgiving. (For when I read v 1 and learned of Martin’s request to see the plates, I wanted to say, “No way, Martin! Not with your track record!” This is what I learned: John Widtsoe wrote: “Martin Harris was a religious minded, prosperous farmer. He appears to have been a rather willful but honest man, who wanted to be sure of everything he undertook.” From my difficult experiences with (1) Sister Evelyn on our mission in Japan and (2)...