LDS Elder Maxwell 1978 (4/4)

LDS Elder Neal A. Maxwell talks about the challenges facing Mormons in politics vs religion

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[rtiffanytaylor]

Brother Maxwell came to our Stake Conference not to long before he died.

I admire his intelligence and he devotion to the Lord.

[rtiffanytaylor]

This is a testament of Jesus Christ

He is alive

He is the son of God

He is the Savior of the World

He is the mediator to the Father

He is alpah omega

He is the good shepherd.

[omiolo]

The study also found that Mormons had the highest score of any religious group in their knowledge of what the Constitution says about religion and the government. In a recent address, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle, spoke about the four major fundamentals of the United States Constitution.

[omiolo]

Sister Javzandulam's garden is her only source of income. She said, "Planting is easy, but selling is hard." She rents a truck to transport her produce to the big city of Ulaanbaatar so she can sell produce there. In order to store her remaining produce, she dug a large hole in the ground on her property.

[omiolo]

"I have felt many enormous blessings were passed on. The Lord has also helped me find people for other people. If you look, you will find the names," she said.

Esmeralda and Ricardo have three children and 15 grandchildren and are looking forward to the birth of their fifth great-grandchild.

[omiolo]

Age and cataracts made 12-hour days in front of a computer screen difficult, but cataract surgery helped her get back on track with the genealogy work, which she cares deeply about. At times she was worried she was recording incorrect information but was assured by a friend who told her to follow the Spirit's direction. As a result of her efforts, she has recognized blessings.

[omiolo]

We'll mention that briefly in a minute. The new project, which has had as many as fifty-nine people at one time working on the project, of which I believe there are twenty-two full-time people working on it today, the first volume of diaries, the journals, came out last fall and at press right now is the second volume of the Smith papers, which will be the first volume of the Revelation series set to be published on the significant date of September 22nd.

[omiolo]

Ancient prophets saw the current day and provided powerful warnings about modern-day pride, he said. "The Book of Mormon was written for us. It bears witness of Jesus Christ and warns us of the perils of pride, both in prosperity and adversity ... Whether in prosperity or adversity, if we are not diligent and faithful, even the elect, even those greatly blessed by the Lord, can fall prey to the great lie and become hard-hearted, self-absorbed, stiff-necked and puffed up in their pride."

[omiolo]

He told the thousands of students gathered in the Marriott Center for the BYU devotional that pride is manifest through Satan's "great lie" and spoke of the need to follow the contrasting "great truth" of God's plan.

[awolLDSasap]

@omiolo OINK!

[omiolo]

"When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father.... We were refugees again and had lost everything for the second time.

[omiolo]

Strong motives

"(A)s a 10-year-old boy, I attended fourth grade and had to learn Russian as my first foreign language. Initially it was quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on I seemed to manage all right.