I got a computer program for digital scrap booking. Here is my first try with it. I'm looking forward to creating bookmarks for Visiting Teaching each month.
I believe the best way for you to print them is to go to my blog "Learn and Liken" click on the image. It should come up with the correct size for you to print. However; I'm not sure at this point, I will play around until I can give you something good to print and use. xoxo Pat
The bookmark this month has a front and back. I thought I would list the roles of Christ as found in the book "What Manner of Man" by Richard Eyre. I also thought the D&C scripture was very important in understanding the role of The Only Begotten. It is very powerful and I hope you ponder upon it.
October General Conference is very close to my heart. This summer I helped many family members who had health issues. I felt in need of courage and strength to help them face their trials.
We all have adversity and I was impressed that seven talks were labeled by the church website as dealing with adversity. So, I've watched them again and read them again.
Here is a bookmark I made to handout when I visit teach in November. I hope the quotes give you comfort and courage in your times of need.
Remember, our Heavenly Father is only a prayer away...so keep a prayer in your heart at all times and He will be with YOU at all times.
Feel free to click image and print it for your use.
Here are the seven talks if you want to see and hear them again.
Elijah
was an Old Testament prophet through whom mighty miracles were performed.
He
sealed the heavens, and no rain fell in ancient Israel for 3½ years.
He
multiplied a widow’s meal and oil.
He raised a young boy from the dead, and he
called down fire from heaven in a challenge to the prophets of Baal. ( 1 Kings
17–18.)
At the conclusion of Elijah’s mortal ministry, he “went up by a
whirlwind into heaven” (2 Kings 2:11)
and was translated.
Then on April 3, 1836 he appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirkland Temple. Scripture
records that Elijah the prophet stood before Joseph and Oliver and said:
“Behold,
the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi—testifying
that he [Elijah] should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord
come—
“To
turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers,
lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse—
“Therefore,
the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands; and by this ye may
know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors” (D&C
110:14–16).
Elder
Russell M. Nelson (a modern Latter-day prophet) has taught that the Spirit of Elijah is “a manifestation of
the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the divine nature of the family” (“A New
Harvest Time,” Ensign, May 1998, 34). This distinctive influence of the
Holy Ghost draws people to identify, document, and cherish their ancestors and
family members—both past and present.
The
Spirit of Elijah affects people inside and outside of the Church. However, as
members of Christ’s restored Church, we have the covenant responsibility to
search out our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the
gospel. “They without us should not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:40) And “neither can we without our
dead be made perfect” (D&C
128:15).
For
these reasons we do family history research, build temples, and perform
vicarious ordinances. For these reasons Elijah was sent to restore the sealing
authority that binds on earth and in heaven. We are the Lord’s agents in the
work of salvation and exaltation that will prevent “the whole earth [from being]
smitten with a curse” (D&C
110:15) when He returns again. This is our duty and great
blessing.
