This Used To Count As Home Teaching

The gold plates are long gone – placed back into a heavenly repository. You can’t look at them – lots of others did though . Reading the plates' translated scripture (the Book of Mormon) and praying is the best way you can really know of their scriptural validity. But , and this is very interesting, you can also compare their content to other ancient texts from the same claimed era, and see if it sits comfortably among them. Hint – it sits very comfortably among them! Below are four old texts that show how and what ancient middle easterners used to write. Some have content very, very like the BOM and some have structure very, very like it. For starters – there’s The Autobiography of Kai: 1)         “[Hugh] Nibley has pointed out the same kind of self-definition [as found in 1 st Nephi] in  The Autobiography of Kai , an Egyptian text which Nibley explains is from “a short time before Nephi.” …Nibley translates Kai’s open...

President Gordon B. Hinckley was a great prophet, in part, perhaps, because he came from good stock. He was not the first Hinckley to be called to the twelve. His Uncle Alonzo A. Hinckley was asked to join as well – and only served 4 years before passing on. Alonzo was amazing in his own right – he healed: “…he healed a lame boy and promised a very sick woman that if she would be baptized and have faith, she would be healed. Accordingly, in the dead of winter a hole was cut in the ice and the ordinance was performed. She regained her health, traveled to Utah, and became the mother of eleven children.” ( https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/prophets-and-apostles-last-dispensation/members-quorum-o-f-twelve-apostles/58-alonzo-arza ) He was given the gift of tongues: “…Elder Alonzo A. Hinckley was a missionary in Holland who understood and spoke very little Dutch even though he had prayed and studied hard. When he returned to a home he had visited before, a lad...