God is an Exalted Man

God is an Exalted Man-Joseph Smith

God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible,--I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form--like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another.

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Church History Volume 1

Volume 1

Introduction

And after many days an angel of the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying: Why doest thou offer sacrifices unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him: I know not, save the Lord commanded me. And the angel spake, saying: This thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth. Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son, and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the name of the Son for evermore. (Moses 5;6-8)

As the Gospel was thus preached there were those among the children of Adam who obeyed it, and a record of those men was kept, and they constituted the ancient Church of God. Enoch was of the number of righteous ones, and a preacher of righteousness.


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From Moses to John the Baptist and Messiah

Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith's Seven Patterns of Prayer

See Meridian Magazine site: 

1. Know our absolute dependence on the Lord (Ex. First Vision)
2. Weary the Lord until He blesses you (Luke 18:1-5)
3. Join the faith of others in obtaining powerful blessings (Joseph and Hyrum suffering from Cholera)
4. Pray for something better (Joseph's prayer for the Johnny cake, and he prayed for something better. Before they finished eating the Johny cake, a man came by and gave them flour and a ham. Joseph said, "I knew the Lord would answer my prayer.")

                         Read about this prayer

5. Come to know God so well that you really know to whom you are praying (Learn God's character, His will for us, and the faith that He actually exists.

6. Knowing beforehand you will obtain your answer--exercising great faith.

7.Cry from the depths of your soul (100% perfectly honest)

Seven Volmes of Church History

7 Volumes of Church History

Church History in the Fulness of Times (PDF tute manual)

Church History in the Fulness of times (lds site student manual-Chapter links but no pictures)

Pioneers

March 1, 1846-July 24,1847

Pioneers 70,000 pioneers

1300 miles. 500-512 days

5 states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah

Walked six days and rested on Sunday's: camped, read, prayed

Danced- VA Reel

Sang songs

Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow were first to arrive in salt lake valley

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512 days walking

Across Iowa, 1846

The beginning of the great trek west really commenced 1 March 1846 on the frozen banks of Sugar Creek in Lee County, Iowa, seven miles west of the Mississippi River. On that day approximately three thousand men, women, and children in about five hundred wagons formally abandoned Nauvoo, Illinois, the City of Joseph, as a result of misunderstandings and mob activities.