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Dear Audience,
I just wanted to answer some facts which are known I am from Arizona in a large city called Phoenix and grew up with 6 members in my immediate family we are now down to 3 of them left, 4 including me. I now currently still live in Phoenix, AZ it is not how I left it when I joined the Army 11 years ago the political landscape has become toxic. My family consists of me and my wife, I only have 1 child but am hoping to have more with my wife. I have been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for eternity (since before the pre-existence), but since we are not being so technical I was born in the covenant and so I am a Church member of 33 years. I never served a mission even though I filled out mission paperwork to do so, instead I joined the Army and served for exactly 2 years and 2 months (a coincidence God had planned based on my prayers to serve). In my experience with the gospel some are ready to learn small things (the milk), some are ready to learn great things pertaining to the kingdom of God (meat); moreover, doctrine cannot be taught to some at all and that is the order of ministering (why cast pearls before swine?). There is definitely an order and on the seventh day God rested so that he might plan for the next coming events and to set his house in order, which is not laboring according to the law of the sabbath. My favorite list of order is the creation, first there was a void without form, then there was light and dark, planets were formed, and as we continue you clearly notice a pattern to preparing a place whereon these may dwell (us, humanity, and creatures[and all other intelligences: matter, anti-matter, gravitation, radiation, loose uncontrolled electrons]: each of these chooses to be in or out of existence in the blink of an eye [therefore they are intelligences]). Because of all this there is a natural order in both right and wrong, both light and dark: 2 Nephi 2:11
11 For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
Because all of those things coming into being there is actually opposition to the priesthood itself call it an anti-priesthood in direct opposition to the spiritual one, it is a carnal one: Abraham 1:27 Now, Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood, notwithstanding the Pharaohs would fain claim it from Noah, through Ham, therefore my father was led away by their idolatry;
We see this today many churches setup, not to be a house of order and a house of God: but just like Pharaoh they are setup to get gain and slay the righteous (as insidious as it may seem they use the established law to carry out their tact, just like Christ was slain). Just like in mathematics order has negative numbers as well. We must be aware of the presence of our enemy and not close our eyes to their mistreatment of virtue. I wonder where I am on the number-line of God?
I have a fur baby also, funny story. My wife wanted to name him Cesar. But he kept sneaking behind me and clawing my foot with the stab of one claw so we named him Brutus, he is a siamese.
Got a good recipe for that range for good pork ribs. I dry rub them with garlic and onion powder and then grate an apple on it.
I had taken accounting in college did my own balance sheets not fun.
The biggest challenge in complying with church doctrine with slot of church members is with that pamphlet one for the money.
I used to have chickens growing up, neat experience. I'll tell you all more about it.
