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DOCTRINE and COVENANTS

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Hurricane Utah Adult Religion Class

D&C 29
Received before 26 September 1830, in the presence of Six Elders. D&C 29:3440. Moses 4:14. D&C 29:3435. All things unto me are spiritual, and not at any time have I given unto you a law which was temporal.

Spiritual and temporal laws


The Latter-day Saint men and women who settled these valleys of the mountains acted upon [the] principle [of spiritual interpretation and understanding]. Judged in terms of the values and aspirations of the world, some pioneer enterprises were failures. The iron mission did not succeed in making significant quantities of iron. The cotton mission did not give the Utah Territory selfsufficiency in cotton production. Efforts to manufacture sugar did not achieve material success for forty years. The Perpetual Immigration Fund did not perpetuate itself because many immigrants were unable to pay their debt to it. But, when measured against the eternal values of loyalty, cooperation, and consecration, some of the most conspicuous worldly failures are seen as the pioneer enterprisers greatest triumphs. Whatever their financial outcome, these enterprises called forth the sacrifices that molded pioneers into Saints and prepared Saints for exaltation. Elder Dallin H. Oaks, October 1985 3

D&C 29
D&C 29:35, 39. I gave unto [Adam] that should be an agent unto himself. And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves. Agency.
Free agency. Agency free will.

Agency
The phrase free agency does not appear in scripture. The only agency spoken of there is moral agency, which, the Lord said, I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment. (D&C 101:78; italics added.) Elder Boyd K. Packer, April 1992

Agency.
Free agency. Agency free will.

Agency
2 Nephi 2:26

D&C 64:29 Moses 7:32 D&C 104:1718


Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828 ed., s.v. Agency.

D&C 29
D&C 29:4647. Children unable to sin. Not moral agents. Children alive in Christ (Moroni 8:22).

Samuel Smith

Phinehas H. Young

Brigham Young

Heber C. Kimball
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Early missionaries
Samuel Smith (4,000 miles in 15 months). Joseph Smith, Sr. and Don Carlos Smith (St. Lawrence County, New York). Hyrum Smith (Palmyra/Fayette/Colesville, New York). Jared Carter (Ohio, New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania). Thomas B. Marsh (Massachusetts). Solomon Chamberlain (Canada).

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Lamanite Mission (18301831)


Four missionaries called in October 1830:
D&C 28:8. Oliver Cowdery. D&C 30:56. Peter Whitmer, Jr. D&C 32:13. Parley P. Pratt, Ziba Peterson.

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Parley P. Pratt

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Parley P. Pratt and the Book of Mormon


We visited an old Baptist deacon by the name of Hamlin. After hearing of our appointment for evening, he began to tell of a book, a STRANGE BOOK, a VERY STRANGE BOOK! in his possession, which had been just published. This book, he said, purported to have been originally written on plates either of gold or brass, by a branch of the tribes of Israel; and to have been discovered and translated by a young man near Palmyra, in the State of New York, by the aid of visions, or the ministry of angels. I inquired of him how or where the book was to be obtained. He promised me the perusal of it, at his house the next day, if I would call. I felt a strange interest in the book. Next morning I called at his house, where, for the first time, my eyes beheld the BOOK OF MORMON,that book of booksthat recordwhich was the principal means, in the hands of God, of directing the entire course of my future life.

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Parley P. Pratt and the Book of Mormon


I opened it with eagerness, and read its title page. I then read the testimony of several witnesses in relation to the manner of its being found and translated. After this I commenced its contents by course. I read all day; eating was a burden, I had no desire for food; sleep was a burden when the night came, for I preferred reading to sleep. As I read, the spirit of the Lord was upon me, and I knew and comprehended that the book was true, as plainly and manifestly as a man comprehends and knows that he exists. My joy was now full, as it were, and I rejoiced sufficiently to more than pay me for all the sorrows, sacrifices and toils of my life. .
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Parley P. Pratt and the Book of Mormon


I esteemed the Book, or the information contained in it, more than all the riches of the world. Yes; I verily believe that I would not at that time have exchanged the knowledge I then possessed, for a legal title to all the beautiful farms, houses, villages and property which passed in review before me, on my journey through one of the most flourishing settlements of western New York. Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt

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Parley P. Pratt

Orson Pratt

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John Hamer bycommonconsent.com/author/johnhamer

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John Hamer bycommonconsent.com/author/johnhamer

Sidney Rigdon
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John Hamer bycommonconsent.com/author/johnhamer

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John Hamer bycommonconsent.com/author/johnhamer

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Results of the Lamanite Mission


1. Began the Churchs commitment to preach to the descendants of the Lamanites. 2. Established Kirtland, Ohio, as a gathering point for the Church. 3. Jackson County, Missouri, identified as Zion, the New Jerusalem.

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