This Used To Count As Home Teaching

One of the defining moments in the post-Christ New Testament is the mighty rushing wind: 1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. It seems to have been a major factor in the apostle’s transformation from students to teachers. From caterpillars to butterflies. From, I don’t know, from delicious hamburgers to delicious hamburgers with cheese or something. Ahem. Clearly I’m running out of analogies. But the point is that the rushing mighty wind was a big deal. It has also been recorded as happening in more modern times - 5 accounts of 4 instances starting now: First – you’ve probably heard of some of these. You might even think the RMW only happened in the early days. Though most of these are over 100 years old – this one is not: 1) Elder L. Tom Per...

The golden plates are one of the coolest pieces of the restoration. He was told about them years before he received them. He told others who told others and soon the countryside was all a-whisper with talk of the gold bible. And then he got them. And no one else could see them, which admittedly sounds suspicious. And it was a tremendous burden on Smith.   And then he could show people. There were the three witnesses – shown the plates by Moroni, the second abridger of the sacred record, now a resurrected angel. Smith was so relieved that he could barely contain himself. – his mother gives this description of the immediate aftermath of the three witness experience: “When they returned to the house it was between three and four o'clock p.m. Mrs. Whitmer, Mr. Smith [Lucy’s husband, Joseph’s father] and myself, were sitting in a bedroom at the time. On coming in, Joseph threw himself down beside me, and exclaimed, "Father, mother, you do not know how ha...