Hey Everyone!
This week was pretty intense, and as noted in my little note in the subject, most of my highlights involve food - go figure. But, this week was characterized by lots of random miracles with some cool studies and intense discussions. But, enough wasting time, and since nobody complained about it last week I'm going to start with some things I learned again this week!
This week I listened to a couple more lectures by Truman G. Madsen in his Jesus of Nazareth series, which were super intense. The 3 titles this week were: "Youth in Nazareth", "Baptism and Temptation", and "Cana, The Cleansing, Jacob's Well". Some of the stuff he talked about was pretty straightforward with quite a bit of it being read from the Bible, but there were a couple scriptures he brought up I particularly found interesting. While talking of Christ's youth in Nazareth, he quoted the JST Matthew 3:24-26, which was intriguing. It says:
24 And it came to pass that Jesus grew up with his brethren, and waxed strong, and waited upon the Lord for the time of his ministry to come. 25 And he served under his father, and he spake not as other men, neither could he be taught; for he needed not that any man should teach him. 26 And after many years, the hour of his ministry drew nigh.
It's an interesting concept to consider how Christ learned most of the things that he knew - which were many as evidenced in Luke 2:46, 52. Anyway, I don't have time today to get into as much depth as I'd like, so y'all might just have to go find those lectures and listen to them yourself. If not, well you'll just have to ask specific questions you want me to find answers to so that you care more about what I study throughout the week ;) A couple other scriptures he read that I enjoyed were:
- Matthew 3:11
- JST Matthew 4:1-2
- Luke 4:23-24
- John 4:14,19,42
Aside from those lectures, which were pretty awesome, I did quite a bit of reading in the Book of Mormon this week and also read some sweet talks from the April 1971 General Conference (the earliest one online). So, I'll throw a few of those down and maybe y'all will check them out?
- "Out of the Darkness"
- "Choose you This day"
- "The Iron Rod"
- Luke 4:8
- 3 Nephi 22:10
- D&C 88:27-28
- Ether 12:27,37
- Moroni 6:4-6
- Joshua 24:15
- Ether 11:8
Well, I guess I should move on to the highlights of this week since I don't have much time left! First was on last Monday when we got to visit with Ricky and Jessica and talked about the 10 commandments with them. It was pretty spiritual, and it was super neat to see them as they recognized the spots that they could improve and also felt strengthened as they recognized the commandments that they were already keeping. It reminded me of that talk by Elder Oaks here: https://www.lds.org/general-
Another highlight this week was the chance we had to visit with Chris, since we got to talk about the story in Numbers 21 where the Children of Israel are plagued by poisonous serpents and Moses raises up the Bronze one for them to look at. Anyway, the cool thing was how excited he was to learn some of the lessons the Book of Mormon prophets teach from that experience that the Children of Israel had in the wilderness found in Alma 33, Helaman 8, and mentioned in Alma 37 and 2 Nephi 25.
The last couple highlights were related to food - since that's the title today - and the reason for that is this weekend - Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we had two dinners each day... which was a lot of food that was super tasty. On Friday we had a good dinner with our ward mission leader, and then that night Linda and Lonnie took us out to a super tasty barbeque place and we got to talk to them for a good little while on the drive there and back which was awesome. Then on Saturday we got two dinners since one family happened to be getting ready to eat when we got there to visit with them, and we got to have some super tasty Corned beef. Sunday was just awesome since there were like 3 families in the ward having dinner together that we were invited to, and another member also invited us to have dinner at her house, so we were pretty stuffed by the end of the night.
Before I get going today (since I still have other emails to respond to) there was a cool statement made by the First Presidency a couple days ago that y'all should check out:
Thanks! Have a fantastic week! Love y'all!
'Til Next Time,
Elder Jordan Nielson
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