the miracle of forgiveness by spencer w kimball

To me, one cannot read such things without being inspired and knowing the restored Church is led by prophets and apostles and is indeed God’s restored work. In my judgment, a few of them reach to such heights as could offer the possibility of canonization if the Lord so desired. We get to be the fly on the wall for certain meetings where sacred and sublime things are said or done as only prophets can.

Some are merely of interest as church history and administration. Not all items below are of lofty spiritual significance. I have noted a few of the more detailed instances below, but the problems he faced in working with these people were constant and an emotional and spiritual strain and drain on him more than all else he did. A running theme in the diary is Elder Kimball’s constant counseling of members with moral problems, especially homosexual activity, adultery, and other marriage problems. Elder Kimball called sin just what it is, sin. I have had some links change on me, so I also included dates to find if the links don’t quite get you there. Sometimes words, lines, paragraphs, and even entire pages are redacted (blacked out this is material considered sacred, private, and confidential). Sometimes this means clicking that right arrow to get past a letter, pictures, newspaper clippings, or other intervening items. So keep reading or clicking the right arrow until you are sure you have exhausted the subject. These often run into more than one page, sometimes many. The below pages contain a date, then a brief description of a journal item, followed by a link to the page it is on. A church email account is needed to access the diary. Finding pearls made wading through the rest of it worth it. But the remaining fraction is more precious than jewels to the spiritually literate and appreciative, and to those that love the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Probably 98% of President Kimball’s diary (thousands of pages) is tedious in the general sense of being notations about meeting itinerary, travelogue, mission tours, ordination names, and weather reports.

Complexities in the English Language of the Book of Mormon - 2015.

Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.

Robert Cundick: A Sacred Service of Music.

The miracle of forgiveness by spencer w kimball