Friday, September 26, 2014

         Felt better today and was so happy to be back in the temple.  It was a great day and made me happy to see many people I knew.  There are still families staying here overnight so they can return to the temple again in the morning.  The buses will leave by noon or 1:00 since the temple will be closed after the 12:00 noon session so everyone can attend the Women’s Broadcast.  It means that Glade and I will have the whole day off.

         Here are the last two Fundamentals:

Thirteenth:  The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency—the highest quorum in the Church.

Fourteenth:  The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed; reject them and suffer.

         Elder Kevin R. Duncan  of the Seventy spoke in the October 2010 General Conference telling the listeners that our very survival depends on following our living prophet.  He said:

         “What the prophets teach may to some seem outdated, unpopular, or even impossible.  But God is a God of order and has established a system whereby we may know His will.  ‘Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.’  (D&C 1:38)

         “Trusting in and following the prophets is more than a blessing and a privilege.”  Then, Elder Duncan spoke about this very article by President Ezra Taft Benson wherein he declared what he called his “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet.”  In the same Conference in a previous session, Elder Claudio Costa of the Presidency of the Seventy, instructed on these same 14 Fundamentals. 

         Elder Duncan stated:  “Because they are of such great importance to our very salvation, I will repeat them again.”   And he did. 

         It was interesting to me to find that these two men in a recent General Conference both spoke about President Benson’s Fourteen Fundamentals.

         The nightly rains continue and the hillsides are covered in green!