This Used To Count As Home Teaching

This is part 4 in a series. For God's Toolbox 1 - 3, the links are at the bottom! The Spirit can work in a few different ways, in my experience. There’s the burning in the bosom that testifies of truth. There’s the heart pounding you might feel just before bearing your testimony on a hungry Sunday. There’s the above numbers 1-3, for example.  This next one, though, is what I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. It’s a profound feeling of peace. You have a big decision coming up, you’re not sure what to do. You go to bed. When the sun comes up, so does absolute serenity. There’s a game plan in front of you. You know what to do. My wife and I were looking for a house for about a year. Our budget, we told the realtor, was “former meth-house.” We all laughed, of course, and then she showed us a whooooole bunch of houses that might have actually fit the bill. Don’t take your shoes off, if you know what I mean. That’s all an exaggeration, of course, but we did ...

Joseph Smith had a lot of visions. He saw the Saints eventually settling in the Rocky Mountains , for one . The entire Bible story unraveled before his eyes.  Joseph Smith even saw Christ a whole bunch of times . An interesting and little known tidbit is that Joseph Smith didn't just have visions - he was in some!  At least two people saw Joseph Smith in vision before they even met him. Joseph Smith was alive, he was restoring everything, and these two people (at least)  were given visions of him to confirm what was true. Without further ado: Jane Manning “After I saw him plain, I was certain he was a prophet because I knew it. I was willing to come and gather, and when he came in with Dr. Bernhisel I knew him. Did not have to tell me because I knew him. I knew him when I saw him back in old Connecticut in a vision, saw him plain and knew he was a prophet.” (They Knew The Prophet, Andrus P. 155) If that’s not clear enough, Mannin...