This Used To Count As Home Teaching

The common saying is that you can’t take it with you. When you reach the end of your line and step into the great beyond, your ultra modern smart phone is going to slip from your fingers no matter how many times you dipped your hands in glue. All your friend's food posts, crafted with equal parts plate placement and statements about how it was as good as it looked, will go *sniff* un-liked. But sometimes items made here have crossed into the cloudy paradise. The golden plates came and went a few times. The Urim & Thummim, the over-sized Nephite breast plate and the sword of Laban have also been taken up. The Liahona has come and gone a time or two. But those examples are easy. These next items are lesser known – and they may even give hope that once you're on the other side, you may be able to come down for a donut every now and again. I'm not saying any of these items made it ultimately to heaven, but they do seem to have left this mortal coi...

FYI - I said small smattering on purpose. It’s because of the sm… sm… sound. My Native American tangent continues – and this one is just as cool/neat-o/ground-shakingly-awesome as that last one . This entry is about three different Indian prophecies of a book that would come – a book that was important enough that, in at least two of the cases, it was desperately sought out by the tribes to whom the prophecy was given. It was specifically the Book of Mormon in those cases. In the third – you be the judge. This first one is from the Cree Indians up in frozen Canada. It involves a great near-death experience that really mirrors Lamoni's in the Book of Mormon: Alma 18: 42 And now, when he had said this, he fell unto theearth, as if he were dead. But he wasn't dead. He was learning. I tried to whittle this one down, but the whole thing together really paints a picture. Maybe grab a snack before you start ...