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You Lose Something, You Pray To Find It, You See It In Your Head: God’s Tool Box Part 2

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Part 2? Well what happened to God’s Tool Box Part 1? That one, FYI, pertains to panoramic visions that seem to get handed out like taffy at a parade. You can read it here. This tool box entry, though, is about visions you see in your head when you pray to find something that’s been lost. This, apparently, gets handed out slightly more than taffy at a parade. It gets handed out like… like… like casual Plato references by a college kid in his second week of Philosophy 101. Or something. It really does seem like a fairly common phenomenon. But maybe I just notice it because it happened to me. I haven’t ever published a personal experience on here before, but as I see this experience happen in other people’s lives too, I wanted to shine a light on it. It’s a dim light, mind you, as I’m pretty sure my entire readership is two Romani guys in southern Slovakia. Getting back on track here - everyone builds their tower of testimony on their own, different,...

Some of Joseph Smith’s (Lesser Known) Big, Beautiful Bullseyes

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To make a list of Joseph Smith’s greatest prophetic hits isn’t hard. There are a lot of pretty commonly known ones like: ·       The eye popping alters of Nahom ·       The pleasing symmetry of Chiasmus ·       Startlingly accurate predictionsof the civil war ·       Indisputably undeniable proof of horsesin Nephite times Those things are all relatively well known in a lot of Latter-day Saint- circles. They’ve probably been listed on a lot of blogs. A list of Joseph Smith’s best hits isn’t as interesting if you already knew it’s contents. Joseph got loads of shocking things right. These things weren't readily available information in his place or time. These ones below aren’t too well known, by all I can tell. But each one lends incredible strength to Joseph Smith's prophetic claims. It a varied list. It's an unlikely list. It's a surprising list.  ...