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The Six Ideas Discussed in this Episode Cross-Reference Your Patriarchal Blessing Do a Personality Profile on People in the Scriptures Do a Scriptural Character Personality Profile of Yourself Create a Top 10 Favorite Scriptures List Create a Top Most Challenging Scriptures List Com Up with a New Favorite Verse

How to Flirt (Appropriately): Valentine Special 4 of 4

My Testimony

Breaking Up: Valentines Special 3 of 4

Dating Ideas: Valentines Special 2 of 4

  Show Notes Dallin H. Oaks: “The best way to avoid divorce from an unfaithful, abusive, or unsupportive spouse is to avoid marriage to such a person. If you wish to marry well, inquire well. Associations through ‘hanging out’ or exchanging information on the Internet are not a sufficient basis for marriage. There should be dating, followed by careful and thoughtful and thorough courtship. There should be ample opportunities to experience the prospective spouse’s behavior in a variety of circumstances." Dallin H. Oaks, “Divorce,” Ensign, May 2007, 73 Points Discussed During In This Episode If you are under eighteen, don’t even attempt online dating of any kind. Don't date online, meet online Don't date out of state Have some non-negotiables Do your homework - research well before starting Build your profile carefully Internet dating is NOT a shortcut Tips on avoiding trouble Tips on when you do meet Don't save serious talks for email  

Do A Family History Interview with Your Spouse  Thanks to my wife, Jenni, today, for letting me do a Family History interview with her. We'll have to get her cute voice on the podcast again!  

Listen to WHEN is Christ Coming? ...and a bit about Mayan calendars Show Notes: And now we only wait to hear the joyful news declared unto us by the mouth of angels, of his coming; for the time cometh, we know not how soon. Would to God that it might be in my day; but let it be sooner or later, in it I will rejoice. (Alma 13:25) When will Jesus Christ come back? I was once praying very earnestly to know the time of the coming of the Son of Man, when I heard a voice repeat the following: Joseph, my son, if thou livest until thou art eighty-five years old, thou shalt see the face of the Son of Man; therefore let this suffice, and trouble me no more on this matter. I was left thus, without being able to decide whether this coming referred to the beginning of the millennium or to some previous appearing, or whether I should die and thus see his face. I believe the coming of the Son of Man will not be any sooner than that time. (D&C 130:14-17)   I, the Lord God, have spoken it; but the hour and the day no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor shall they know until he comes. (D&C 49:7) Joseph Smith: Jesus Christ never did reveal to any man the precise time that He would come. Go and read the Scriptures, and you cannot find anything that specifies the exact hour He would come; and all that say so are false teachers.” History of the Church, 6:254. He doesn't want us to know the date of His coming, but has provided His own way of telling us about how soon Christ will come. And he that believeth shall be blest with signs following, even as it is written. And unto you it shall be given to know the signs of the times, and the signs of the coming of the Son of Man;” (D&C 68:10-11) And again, it shall come to pass that on as many as ye shall baptize with water, ye shall lay your hands, and they shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, and shall be looking forth for the signs of my coming, and shall know me. (D&C 39: 23) The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring, O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? (Matt 16:1-4) And I will show it plainly as I showed it unto my disciples as I stood before them in the flesh, and spake unto them, saying: As ye have asked of me concerning the signs of my coming, in the day when I shall come in my glory in the clouds of heaven, to fulfill the promises that I have made unto your fathers, (D&C 45:16)   President Wilford Woodruff: If the world wants to know what is coming to pass, let them read the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants; let them read [the] revelations of St. John. As God lives they will come to pass. Not one of them will fall unfulfilled. And the hand of God is beginning to be manifest in the earth. Judgment is at the door; calamity awaits the nations of the earth; but we ourselves should be prepared to stand in holy places while the judgments of God are manifest in the earth. We are living in a late age, although it is true there are a great many vast and important events to transpire in these days. But one thing is certain, though the Lord has not revealed the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man shall come, he has pointed out the generation, and the signs predicted as the fore-runners of that great event have begun to appear in the heavens and on the earth, and they will continue until all is consummated. If we, as Latter-day Saints, want anything to stir us up, let us read the Bible, Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants; they contain enough to edify and instruct us in the things of God. Treasure up the revelations of God and the gospel of Christ contained therein. Wilford Woodruff,