11/29



LORD'S DAY-SUN'S DAY



Today at Israel’s Gathering, my Uncle who baptized spoke to me under the influence of the Holy Spirit.



The Lord said, Prepare yourself. Study. Pray. Come before me often. Allow the Holy Spirit in your heart. I will show you many things. I have a work for you to do. I will deliver you as the children of Israel.



An Elder confirmed the message.



Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Praise You, thank You and bless You Father. In Christ’s name, Amen.



Also a Priest asked me before service started to help take up offering today. Thank You Lord for service opportunities in Thy Church. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

12/10-

UNDATED, A DAY IN 2015



I am 33 years old. I have a new life.

I have let go of so many falsehoods, and also encouraged Shane over the phone to do so so that the True Christ can give us the True Riches.

It is not what is lost, it is what remains.

A just man brings out of his treasures both the old and the new.

Shane still lives in Michigan. Were to God that he moved out here to Zion.

I no longer have to worry about a messy house, for that is a thing of the past.

My thoughts have been established. I have let go of so much of my wrong thinking and confessed my secret thoughts to God.

I have examined all my main beliefs and only kept the ones that are true, the ones that I have the most evidence for, though some beliefs I as yet take on faith (but even those I WILL and DO NOW have plenty of evidence for as of 07/27/2021 AD).

12/27,



LORD'S DAY-



RLDS DC 85:18(a.),(b.)



(a.) And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole body shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you, and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things.



(b.) Therefore sanctify yourselves that your minds become single to God, and the days will come that you shall see him: for he will unveil his face unto you, and it shall be in his own time, and in his own way, and according to his own will.



Today the morning worship was brought by an Elder and he talked about abiding in the Vine. In Sunday School we studied III Nephi 5. Another Elder brought out a Scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants about keeping an eye single to the glory of God that has corresponding parallels in III Nephi, Matthew, and other places. (RDC 85:18) and was related to abiding in the Vine. A Sister brought up how the first thing Jesus said in America was Come unto Me and know that I Am, the second thing was His Doctrine and the third thing was the Celestial Law, because the first thing he said was the most important to Him, etc.



Joy's husband's offertory sermon was about how we shouldn't hesitate to ask for needs from the oblation fund. He said also that we all contribute to it.



An Elder read from the Book of Mormon about speaking with the tongues of angels and seeking, asking and knocking, and told of a dream he had about being in a place like the belly of a whale and the only way out was the Lord reaching down and helping him out.



Another Elder preached about the nature of self, and taking Jesus' yoke upon you.



Then my Uncle who baptized me in 2005 preached, making some remarks and building upon what the other two Elders had brought.



It was a beautiful service.



Notes on Sunday Evening Class



Joys' brothers' call to worship this morning was about the people being called Zion because they were of One heart and One mind and dwelt in righteousness.



Another Elder preached on repentance this morning.



Joy's brother this morning posed a possible situation to us: What if all the priesthood had a dream where they were all supposed to meet in a certain place and Jesus would come in all His glory and they would no longer need authority to baptize, etc. (We will ALWAYS need Authoritie frome Heaven to Baptize and Confirm-(06/25/AD 2019-B.L.S.)

My uncle who baptized me talked about how soon we would hear a mighty rushing wind, very loud, and we would be filled with the Holy Spirit more than we've ever been.



When my uncle blew in the mike (he said it would be louder than that even) it took an Elder's mind back to a peace, stillness, quietness of His coming.



Another Elder (some of these are repeating) preached this morning about the lightness of the yoke. Joy's brother said tonight that it could be that (what someone else preached earlier as a possible misinterpretation of the lightness of the yoke, which Joe acknowledged could also be an additional insight) lightness of the yoke could mean light to the world.



We are reading “Dying To Self,” a Dialogue by William Law with commentary by Andrew Murray.



The Simplicity of faith.



Alma told his son to let his sin trouble him more than his salvation.



Are we ready to go when the time comes?



MY Uncle preached about how that even though we are baptized and confirmed, we can receive an additional necessary blessing from receiving Christ into our hearts.



Death to the dominion of self.



We must abide (keep our eye single) 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week.



More abiding means less repenting.



Joy's brother mentioned the process of breaking people down to build people up at AA meetings he led.



This morning I was asked by an Elder to help take up offering. Thank You Heavenly Father, for this and the entire day, both service and evening class and everything in between. Amen.



Additional things said at class.



People stand on the Church as their foundation rather than Christ, who is the head of the corner.



The Spirit will lead people to see their need to come to the waters of baptism, and laying on of the hands for the Spirit.

02/28-

LORD'S DAY-SUNDAY



I was asked to take up offering today and I thank you Good, good Father, for this! Amen.



Nephi has been missing in the Alaskan mountains near Anchorage since last Thursday. Joy and her husband, Nathaniel, Noah and my Uncle have all been interviewed by the media. Joy and her husband, Noah, Ken and I have been on TV, Joy and Noah twice. The Independence Examiner and Nigeria Teller have ran stories and other news programs that have not interviewed Joy or her husband or my Uncle or Noah have run the story. Many, many people and churches have been praying for Nephi since this ordeal began including Israel's Gathering and the church in Michigan Shane and I used to go to (who found out because of Shane).

(The following is how I felt. I never gave up hope til the very moment the Deputy Sherriff informed Joy and her husband that Nephi had been found, and not alive. -06-20-2016) Joy and I are confident that Nephi is alive. He will either be found safe or walk out.



The thought came to Joy early on in this ordeal, that the longer the wait, the greater the miracle. (Later on I asked God why Nephi hasn't been found yet and he said that if he'd have been found yet not as many people would come unto Him. -04/12/2016) (The miracle that God told Joy about when this started was how Nephi was found. The searcher was in the helicopter and happened to look down and thought it strange that there was only one piece of ice out on the lake. The person listened to the whisper of God (although he/she did not know it was God) to take a closer look. Nephi's frozen body was on that piece of ice. -06/20/2016)

Today I was administered to for a toothache by two Elders.



I have been reading Abide In Christ by Andrew Murray. It is an excellent book.

04/11-
MONDAY



Today is the first day of the 2016 JCRB General Conference.



It started with a revelation from God through Patriarch-Evangelist Fred Greene followed by testimonies of callings to Apostle and Patriarch-Evangelist by the ones who will be ordained to those offices on Friday. Lord willing, Joy and I will be there at the Conference for the ordination service. There will also be a Seventy ordained on Friday I believe.

At the Remnant Conference a revelation was given and a standing High Council was called and ordained.



I would like to write out some testimonies from my life's experiences in unity with those of the Conference who are also writing out testimonies at this time.



Dear Lord, please bring those testimonies to my mind that you would like me to write, In Christ's Name I pray, Amen.



When I first met Shan it was at Freedom Work Opportunities of Genesee County and he and I started talking and I gave him a small pocket size Book of Mormon. He had previously been told by his Shinto sensei that someone would give him a book with the word 'ether' in it.



Not too long after I gave him the Book of Mormon he started coming to my house. Eventually the Lord got him to start coming to a non-Restoration church that I was visiting at the time. Jesus had made himself known to Shane many times in dreams and visions.



Later Seventy Ron and I were meeting at my old house and Shane Jones arrived. Ron invited him to have a meeting with us, and our first cottage meeting began.



With each passing cottage meeting Shane became more and more convicted that the Book of Mormon was true.



Eventually I was able to invite Shane to a Restoration Branch, Sanillac. While he was there, the power of the Holy Spirit shot through him. This also happened to him at some non-Restoration churches.



During all this time, Shane went to a local Protestant church many, many times (and is still going) and a local Baptist church also many many times.