Good Things To Come!
By Alan on Jan 15 in Blog, Videos tagged children, Come, create, creator, Elder Jeffret R. Holland, eternity, Family, future, God, good, gospel, holland, home. starts, Jesus, marriage, never, quit, things, together | 1 Comment
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Elder Jeffrey R. Holland recalls his days as a poor young father with a broken-down family car and testifies that for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, there are better days and good things to come. Read the entire talk here: http://bit.ly/9lZUYI
When times get tough, don’t ever quit!
We at TheFamily.com have great HOPE for the future and for The Family. There are GOOD THINGS To COME.
Yet we must always remember, that just as God is a creator…and we are His children and must not WAIT…but CREATE a Great Tomorrow!
It All Starts Within The Walls of our Own Homes.
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy path! “
Quit The Church?
By Alan on Jan 09 in Blog tagged abstinence, alan, another, call, church, degrees, doctrine, drugs, Elias, Father, flory, gathering, God, good-bye, Israel, Jesus, jews, knowledge, latter-day, LDS, leave, life, Malachi, member, Mission, missionary, Mormon, Moses, mother, Nazareth, newspaper, Osmond, Palestine, Paul, prophet, quit, restoration, saints, salvation, service, temple, ten tribes, tithing, wisdom, worker, youth | 2 Comments
As a member of the LDS Church, or its real name, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…I share this email that a friend ‘Ollie’ sent me with a smile on my face!
Quit the Church?
In a local newspaper there had been an ongoing series of articles written by
individuals who wanted to persuade LDS Church members to leave the Church.
In response to the highly critical and spirited remarks, a local member wrote this rebuttal:
Editor:
I have been thinking of quitting the Mormon Church. Yes, if I can, I am
going to get even with that church. As soon as I can find another church
that teaches about the Gathering of the House of Israel; the return of the
Ten Tribes and their mission; the return of the Jews to Palestine and why,
and how they are going to build the temple; the building of temples and what
to do with them; the mission of Elias, the prophet, as predicted by
Malachi; the method for the salvation of the people that died at the time of
Noah in the flood; the origin of the American Indian; the complete
explanation of why Jesus of Nazareth had to have a mortal mother but not a
mortal father; the explanation of the three degrees of glory (three heavens)
as mentioned by Paul; the complete explanation of why Elias and Moses did
not die but had to be translated (since they both lived before the
resurrection was introduced by Christ); the restoration of the gospel by
modern revelation as promised by Peter and Paul and Jesus himself; the
belief in eternal marriage and the family, and the knowledge and the place
to seal for eternity; that teaches abstinence from all harmful drugs and
foods ; and that sells the best fire insurance policy on earth, for the
last days, for only a 10th of my income.
Yes sir, as soon as I can find another church that teaches all that, or
even half as much, I will say good-bye to this Mormon Church. The church
that I am looking for must also be able to motivate 50,000+ youth, and
adults, for the first, second or third time, to leave their homes for two
years at their own expense and go to far-away places to teach and preach
without salary. It must be able to call, on a frosty day, some 5 or 6
thousand professors, students, lawyers, doctors, judges, policemen,
businessmen, housewives and children to go and pick apples at 6 am. It must
be able to call meetings and get the attention for two hours of more than
150,000 men. Yes, it must also teach and show why salvation is assured for
children who die before eight years of age.
Mr. Editor, could you help me find a church that teaches all that and more
than hundreds of other doctrines and principles, which I have no room to
mention here, and which brings solace and comfort to the soul; peace,
hope, and salvation to mankind, and above all, that answers the key
questions that all the great philosophers have asked; questions and answers
that explain the meaning of life, the purpose of death, suffering and pain;
the absolute need for a Redeemer and the marvelous plan conceived and
executed by Jesus Christ the Savior? Yes, as soon as I find another
church that teaches that, and also that has the organization and the powers
to make that teaching effective, I am going to quit the Mormon Church. For
I should not tolerate that “they” should change a few words in the Book of
Mormon-even if those changes simply improve the grammar and the syntax of
the verses-for, after all, don’t you think the Divine Church should employ
angels as bookmakers, and clerks, to do all the chores on earth? Don’t you
think, Mr. Editor that the Divine Church should also have prophets that
don’t get sick and don’t get old and die, and certainly, that don’t make a
goof here and there. No, sir! A Divine Church should be so divine that only
perfect people should belong to it, and only perfect people should run it.
As a matter of fact, the Church should be so perfect that it should not even
be here on earth!
So, I repeat, if any one of the kind readers of this imperfect letter knows
about another church that teaches and does as much for mankind as the
Mormon Church, please let me know. And please do it soon, because my turn
to go to the cannery is coming up. Also, “they” want my last son (the fifth
one) to go away for two years and again, I have to pay for all that. And I
also know that they expect me to go to the farm to prune trees, and I have
heard that our ward is going to be divided again, and it is our side that
must build the new chapel. And also, someone the other day had the gall of
suggesting that my wife and I get ready to go on a second mission, and when
you come back, they said, you can volunteer as a temple worker.
Boy, these Mormons don’t leave you alone for a minute. And what do I get
for all that, I asked? ”Well,” they said, “for one, you can look forward to
a funeral service at no charge!”… Do you think you can help me to find
another church?
Thomas D. Clark
Personally, there is ‘NO WAY‘ that I would ever leave this Church of ours for it has the authority to perform those eternal saving ordinances that will get me and my wife Suzanne with our family back together and resurrected into the highest ‘mansion‘ in the everlasting heavens to be with our Heavenly Parents once again…. unless I choose to sin and to not live those higher laws that deserve the highest blessings and ‘mansion‘ , which I WON’T!
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ALAN OSMOND
John 14: 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
…How Close They were To Success!
By Alan on Jan 07 in Daily Inspiration tagged endure, failure, give up, God, life, men, quit, saved, success, women | Comments Off
Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison
“And now, my beloved brethren, I know by this that unless a man shall endure to the end, in following the example of the Son of the living God, he cannot be saved.” 2 Nephi 31:16
Kirk Matsen
For The Family
You Must Choose The Road To Follow. The Way!
By Alan Osmond on Jan 04 in Blog tagged challenge, choice, choose, darkness, devil, dreadful, endure, Good Bad, Great, Jesus, Left, light, quit, right, Satan, test, The Plan, the way, wrong | Comments Off
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Traffic In My Mind
By The Osmond Brothers
I got traffic in my mind, yeah.
Don’t know which road to follow.
I got traffic in my mind, yeah.
I’m all alone flyin’ solo.
I got questions lookin’ at me,
answers tryin’ to find me.
Everybody telling me what they don’t know.
I got traffic in my mind, yeah.
Don’t know which road to follow.
I see blind men leading blind men,
and telling us how to make it.
I get better answers watching
some little kid trying to fake it.
So tell me who am I?
Why am I here?
Where in heaven’s name am I goin’?
I got traffic in my mind, yeah.
Don’t know which road to follow.
So tell me who am I?
Why am I here?
Where in heaven’s name am I goin’?
I got traffic in my mind, yeah.
Don’t know which road to follow.
Which road should I follow?
Don’t know which road to follow.
President Harold B. Lee, Prophet, Seer, and Revelatory, told our family in 1973 that whenever we had choices to make, whether it was where we lived, the job we had, or the friends we keep, that we would always have at least two choices. He then said, “Always choose that which will get you closest to the Celestial Kingdom.”
Scriptures remind us: ”Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves—to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.” 2 Ne. 10: 23
This advice has helped our family in making many choices personally and professionally.
