August 20, 2018

fam,

About half way through morning planning there was some sort of system crash on Elder Magalei's phone. The Missionary smart phones we use are locked down with an application named Mass360 and for what ever reason it deleted a few critical applications, including facebook, daily planner, notes, gospel library, and much more. We finished planning and I was able to synch our data only to find moments after having sunk the same failures accurred to me. Turns out the system glich is not an isolated issue but at the very least mission wide and likely covers other missions with smart phones. We are kind of hosed. We had a pretty busy day tomorrow but I couldn't say which lessons were at what times.    :/    This will be fun.


Sunday was interesting. Zoey and Christian, and a family we've recently started teaching. Things went smoothly. We were able to meet with Zoey and Christian after church to talk about some questions they had. They wanted to know what they could do to come closer to God. We outlined how baptism would be an essential step in their progression and were able to challenge them to a specific baptismal date.  


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Now even gmail has failed me. I had finished up what had turned out to be a really good email and it failed to save the most recent draft 😣😭

I'm sorry but I don't think I'll try to replicate it. Hopefully a brief summary will sufice to outline what once was. 

"No 'missionary pastor' alex you can't preach in our church, but look at the introduction to the book of mormon"

"I don't believe in God, I believe in the great spirit.........The world is going to be destroyed by a giant volcano somewhere under the pacific ocean" - crazy native american (see Alma 18) who had some interesting additional interpretations of the end of the world.

Our tiwi isn't working and we keep getting the same indian guy who is starting to not like us anymore. 

An in-depth comparison on the doctrines of baptism as contained in The Book of Mormon and Bible. The Book of Mormon supports everything the bible says, clarifies many things, and reveals many key doctrines pertaining to baptism. Basicly, the Book of Mormon is super cool. 

Jose who we read the account in 3 nephi 11 of the coming of Jesus Christ is super cool. He even watched the restoration on his own and we had a great lesson.

We had a fantastic lesson on the plan of salvation with Zoey and Christian. We taught how in temples, families can be bound/sealed for time and all eternity as well as we can preform vicarious baptisms for our ancestors who never had the opportunity to receive the blessings found in the fulness of the gospel. It was a super powerful lesson and not to be forgotten. 

-eric

August 13, 2018

Fam,

Transfer calls were this past Friday. Elder Magalei and I are staying together. I think we've been together for more than 9 months but I've stopped counting. Transfers no longer mean anything when we know what's going to happen for at least the next 6 months . We will also be moving early September to a new apartment. 

Wednesday we had a pretty great visit with Edin. We helped him prepare for the Branch temple trip on the 25th of this month. We set up his LDS account and got him running on his family history. I'm so grateful for the family history my mom graciously filled out for me before I left on my mission. I was able to use the pamphlet to show Edin a short history of my family and talk about the ordinances performed in the temple. He is excited and we are pumped things are going well for him.

Thursday I had a seriously bad sore throat, almost to the point of losing my voice. We took things slowly for a few hours but were able to go out proselyting in the afternoon. We met two seriously cool people that night. The first guy we had a short lesson with on the book of Mormon. We had a pretty good visit with him and ended by reading with him in the 11th chapter of 3 Nephi when Jesus begins his ministry in the Americas. The Spirit was strong and at the end of the visit he explained that he had spoken with missionaries in Mexico many years back. The other guy was a "Missionary Pastor." Introducing himself as Pastor Alex he explained the things he had done as a pastor for the past few years. We were able to strike common ground on the importance on missionary work and he shared some cool stories about his own missionary work. Unlike most pastors, Alex was kind and respectful. We shared common ground on many truths including the apostasy of the early Christian church. He even pulled out scriptures we like to use to teach about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The lesson was made slightly difficult because of the language barrier. Alex is African and his English isn't that great but he speaks French, Portuguese, Spanish and sometimes all at the same time. It was quite the struggle. We talked about how God has restored many lost truths as well as his priesthood authority to the earth today and offered him a Book of Mormon. He gladly accepted and committed himself to read it before we came back next Saturday. Hopefully he'll actually read!

Saturday we had the baptism of José Manuel! It was a great service. Manuel is the older brother to Francisca and Daniel. Francisca spoke and did a fantastic job. She ended her talk telling her mom and Daniel that she's anxiously awaiting their baptisms, all still in process. Elder Guerrero and I stood as witnesses to make sure the baptism was performed correctly. There was a great reverence as the congregation moved from the Chapel to room with the baptismal font. Being a saving ordinance the spirit was able to powerfully witness to me its importance as people quietly shuffled in and Manuel was baptized by Elder Wilkins. Baptism is a simple yet powerful ordinance. 

There were some refreshments after the service. With some transfer math I have three transfers cycles left. The last two will be spent training the Elder who will come out in September. We should get two (they should be entering the MTC around now) and Elder Magalei should train the other. Elder Guerrero and Rencher go home in September as the two new Elders come out. That leaves Elder Berry and Wilkins to be companions. Elder Berry will have 12 weeks under his belt and Elder Wilkins a meager 18 weeks. As I walked by after we were enjoying refreshments I heard the conversation they were having. You could say they are feeling the pressure and nerves caused by their decreed fate. It reminded me of when Elder Guerrero trained me. Elder Guerrero was really young, he only had about 24 weeks when he trained me. He was a little nervous and likely felt as I was training, under pressure with a slight doubt of your own capabilities, but we just worked and things eventually worked themselves out. In that time we were able to gain much needed experience. I'm excited for them and the lessons they'll learn being on their own. 

Listening to one of President Monson's talk made me ponder the effects of our missionary work and how often they go beyond what we will ever see or realize. I've noticed many of the people we speak with either have known a Latter-day Saint or have spoken with missionaries in the past. Each contact either moves someone closer to the fullness of the gospel or further. Contact could be as little as seeing us walking down the street or nervously peeking through their blinds at what looks like the CIA or ICE parked on their street. Everything counts and it's probable that we might never really know the full effect of our service. 

Yesterday we had dinner with the Duran family. I doubt there are words worthy of describing them. In few words, they're awesome. Brother Duran has quite the garden this year filled with a large variety of hot peppers. We were treated to a great carne asada with a side of habaneros. Brother Duran is a monster or a champion, that's left undecided. He chomped down massive bites of some seriously hot habaneros. I took a few bites, swallowing them instead of chewing but as I finished the pepper I made the mistake of biting down. The darn pepper nearly killed me. I don't know how people actually eat peppers that hot aside from literally burning the feeling out of their mouths. 

-Eric 

August 6, 2018

Fam, 

Gander 
[gan-dur] 
1. [N] resident, or native of Michigan (Michi - Gander) 
2. [V] to continuous talking aimlessly without purpose or destination
3. Mature male goose 

Juan, the guy from last week who had the lesson on authority, is a Gander through and through. To teach him you really have to take control of the situation. Our lesson this past Tuesday was another story. His wife, Esperanza, was able to join us. The lesson went really well, like surprisingly well. Esperanza is super cool. PMG says that people progress in the gospel best as families and Tuesday really demonstrated why. Esperanza was really receptive but more importantly by her presence kept Juan calmed and less prone to interupt. Esperanza only speaks Spanish which also helped. Juan's language skills are not as developed in Spanish which greatly mitigated his tendencies to gander and dominate lessons.  Esperanza's presence allowed us to more effectively share a good lesson. 

This week was pretty tough when it comes to talking with people. For some reason it felt like no one was outside or home even. Monday we had appointments during our entire proselytizing time but Tuesday and Wednesday were more open. Those two days I think we talked with a total of three or four people.

Though the week was less productive, we've been really focusing on building the priesthood in the branch. For the last month or two we've prayed a lot to be lead to men who can hold the priesthood. It's been pretty miraculous. Just recently we posted a free Book of Mormon on the Facebook market place and had to turn off comments due to just a bunch of anti. Feeling like we had learned our lesson for posting stuff like that on the local Hispanic Garage sale we turned off comments. A few hours later we received a private message from someone asking when and where our church meets. While conversing with them it turned out he was a member who just moved here who had lost contact with the church and had been looking for the Latter-day Saints in Grand Rapids. No effort wasted: the unintended consequence was meeting a guy who had been looking for the church. 

We have also been able to get our recent converts to come with us as we visit with the people we teach. Teodoro has been doing super well. The gospel has really latched on to him. We talked with his neighbors on the way to one lesson. In the lesson he did fantastically and on the way back he invited the people we saw walking back to the car to meet with us and come to church. He really enjoys missionary work and is keen to continue to come out with us. 

Here is a list of a few talks I've listened this week that I particularly liked. Losing interest in listening to all the talks by speaker I've moved to the topic of priesthood. Here are a few I've enjoyed, in no particular order, also there are a few added not about the priesthood. 



The Power of the Priesthood in the Boy, April 2013 - Elder Tad R. Callister  Listen or Read

God’s Compelling Witness: The Book of Mormon, October 2017 - Tad R. Callister  Listen or Read

See Others as They May Become, October 2012 - President Thomas S. Monson  Listen or Read

The Powers of Heaven, April 2012 - Elder David A. Bednar
Listen or Read

What Lack I Yet? October 2015 - Elder Larry R. Lawrence
Listen or Read

Sacrament Meeting and the Sacrament, October 2008 - Elder Dallin H. Oaks 
Listen or Read

Like a watered garden, October 2001 - Elder Jeffery R. Holland (side note: though the word holy appears many times in the scriptures, what it refers to  basically falls within a few sections; sacrifices, specifically tithing as well as animal sacrifices under the mosaic law; commandments, specifically the Sabbath day but also a few others; things pertaining to the temple, such as ceremonial clothing, altars, etc; and God. Tithing is secretly one of the coolest commandments) Listen or Read

July 30, 2018

Fam, 

We are currently teaching someone who kind of struggles to understand. In D&C 42:12 it says that the Bible and the Book of Mormon contain the fulness of the gospel. Together you gain added understanding and clarity where sometimes there would be ambiguity or even nothing. In the lesson he wasn't understanding divine authority. Trying to explain as clearly and slowly as possible we opened up to 3 Nephi 11. Though it isn't a moment of apostasy/restoration the principles are close enough to teach why authority is important and how it's received. We read verses 17-26, 28 and using the scriptures were able to help him come to an understanding. The progress in that lesson moved him from slightly anti and definitely not understanding to a basic understanding and a willingness to pray. Using the scriptures brings authority and power to what we teach. It was pretty fun but at the same time took quite a bit of effort to nudge him in the right direction. 

17 Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High God! And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him.

18 And it came to pass that he spake unto Nephi (for Nephi was among the multitude) and he commanded him that he should come forth.

19 And Nephi arose and went forth, and bowed himself before the Lord and did kiss his feet.

20 And the Lord commanded him that he should arise. And he arose and stood before him.

21 And the Lord said unto him: I give unto you power that ye shall baptize this people when I am again ascended into heaven.

22 And again the Lord called others, and said unto them likewise; and he gave unto them power to baptize. And he said unto them: On this wise shall ye baptize; and there shall be no disputations among you.

23 Verily I say unto you, that whoso repenteth of his sins through your words, and desireth to be baptized in my name, on this wise shall ye baptize them—Behold, ye shall go down and stand in the water, and in my name shall ye baptize them.

24 And now behold, these are the words which ye shall say, calling them by name, saying:

25 Having authority given me of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

26 And then shall ye immerse them in the water, and come forth again out of the water.

28 And according as I have commanded you thus shall ye baptize. And there shall be no disputations among you, as there have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among you concerning the points of my doctrine, as there have hitherto been.

One thing I've really been enjoying was I've started making a catalog of all the promised blessings in the scriptures. Blessings are received by obedience so by knowing what principles need to be obeyed to receive which blessings makes it easy to leave promised blessings that have already been prescribed by either God, Jesus or their prophets. The scriptures are riddled with promised blessings. 

Wednesday we had an interesting lesson with a member referal. We tend to talk to a lot of people from a wide variety of walks of life. Trial is pretty universal among everyone we talk with. Obviously they've been going through a lot but they shared a lot of cool "coincidences" that had sustained them over the last few weeks, a member reaching out with a simple act of charity helped them both physically and spiritually, a by-product being their willingness to meet with us. We shared a slightly scattered message but the spirit was really strong. Unfortunately they likely would be best helped in an English congregation instead of Spanish but we'll see what happens to them. 

The same day we had a fairly funny first lesson with this nice lady we met. We were with the Pectols and one thing Elder Pectol will almost always bring up, and not something we really ever go over in lessons, is that we aren' t paid to do what we do. Though we pay tithing as a church that money is not used to pay bishops, church leaders, (missionaries), or anything, instead it goes to charity. "No way", the lady blurted out, "wow that's crazy, that's just like what Jesus did with the church he set up!" my silent rejoinder was "that's because this is the church he set up!" 

Thursday we were able to pass off Mercedes to the other Spanish Elders. We've been working on moving all our investigators to the missionaries who are now responsible for their coinciding areas after the new line drawing. Mercedes, just for the circumstances, took a little longer than the rest. Elder Rencher and I, on trade-offs, drove out to Holland for the lesson which turned out really well. Listening is so vital to missionary work. As Elder Holland put it, "more important than speaking is listening." As we listened we were able to address some concerns that she hadn't yet opened up about. We were able to help her out and take a few more steps forward in her progression. 

Elder Magalei and I have been listening to general conferance talks while we drive to and from appointments which has really improved all the gap moments we have. With the phones and an unlimited data plan we are able to cover a lot of material which has been really beneficial. We've listened to all of President Nelson's talks, all of President Eyring's talks (about 75% mention the road to Emmaus, he really, really, really likes that story in the Bible), all of Elder Holland's talks (literally every talk is moving and is complimented by the perfect story), all of the talks by Elder Soares and Gong, all of Elder Bednar's talks (probably my favorite speaker), and many of Elder Christofferson's (he does his own Spanish translation - SO COOL and with an amazing accent) and Elder Andersons' talks. Mathew 6:22 says that "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." I think that that principle could also be extended to the ear. We are a composite of the things we take in. Just by filling our time with uplifting media we've maintained the companionship of the Holy Ghost in greater abundance. Also the General Conferance talks are super insightful. 

Saturday night we got the text that I was going to speak in church the next day. I definitely wasn't excited but immediately began preparing. Unlike the other two times it actually turned out really well. We're a smallish branch but even still, talking in front of people is difficult. 

Sunday Teodoro and Edin were ordained to the Priesthood and passed the sacrament. They both really enjoyed the experience and it was a particularly spiritual sacrament. It's funny to think that they're actual members! 


Just a heads up there is a chance we are moving tomorrow :) the apartment will be left to Elder Guerrero and Elder Berry so it's not a big deal of packages or mail goes there. If we do move we'll send the address next week! 


-eric

July 23, 2018

Fam, 

Edin's baptism was an utter success.

Our Monday lesson with Edin we had planned to finish up some of the final preparations for the baptismal service. It turned out well. He lives with a member family who lives on a pretty sketchy street. What was funny was as we were reviewing our plans before we walked in we saw this guy walking down the middle of the street. I could see something around his neck but thought nothing of it. We continued talking and offered a prayer before heading in. As we finished the prayer the guy was walking by the car and his "necklace" was a 8-10 foot live python. It was pretty gangster. I was only able to grab a picture after he had passed with the car mirror, unfortunately it doesn't give justice to its epic-ness. It's fun to work in the hood. 

Friday was our trade off. I went with Elder Wilkins. We had a pretty open day so we just parked the car and walked for a few hours talking with people. Knowing the area so well its pretty convenient. We knocked on about 15 doors and talked with about 10 of them. They were all people I had talked to previously but never was able to teach for one reason or another. It becomes a lot easier to talk with people when you remember what they were interested in but they don't remember the two minute conversation you had with them over a year ago. As an example we talked to this one lady for  10 minutes on the Proclamation to the Family and the blessings that come when families follow the inspired counsel in that document. Unfortunately we weren't able to have a formal lesson or set an appointment but she had a better contact with the church than she had the last time we had talked with her. 

We ended the trade-off with a delicious dinner with Teodoro and his family. We presented them with a picture of the Chicago temple with the text on it saying "Eternas pueden ser las familias." They're excited to be sealed as a family in the temple and we even had them sign their names to the framed picture to continue to diligently prepare to be able to have an eternal family. 

Saturday we were checking up on the two speakers for Edin's baptism to make sure they were ready. One of the speakers had never spoken in church or anything. He was still super lost but we were able to help formulate a talk and practiced with him for about an hour. In one hour we moved from reading the guide to the scriptures entry on baptism all the way through including the summaries to the cited scriptures to an actually acceptable talk. We even taught him how to bear testimony. So many people don't know how to bear testimony. The talk "Pure Testimony" by Elder Ballard along side the "True to the faith" entry on testimony are such a good resources to help people understand what is and what isn't a testimony appropriate for a church meeting. 

"Pure Testimony" by Elder Ballard

"Testimony" from True to the Faith

Sunday was spectacular. The stake president was there to set apart the new branch presidency councilor and Elders Quorum president, something we've waited a while for. It was a great moment. I've learned the absolute necessity of faithful men and the power of priesthood keys. The Stake President served a full time mission in Portugal and tries to speak Spanish and it's nigh unto unintelligible. It's like trying to fit a round dowel into a small triangular whole but using a large hammer to force it through no matter what. But he tries and that's what counts. The New Elders Quorum president was set apart during third hour with everyone present. The stake president did the setting apart but beforehand took a moment to explain the role of priesthood keys. If you have questions on what I mean by Priesthood keys check out true to the faith "priesthood keys" under the section titled "Priesthood."  

See "Priesthood Keys" under the topic of "Priesthood

The spirit was so powerful as he, in his - what he calls - Span-guese, explained what it is and their importance. It was a special moment made better because it was shared with two recent converts who are soon to receive the priesthood and three investigating men all who want to be baptized.

About the last month or two we've been praying and fasting a lot for men to come to the Branch either through convert baptisms or new move-ins and that has started to become very fruitful. Daniel has some complications that are being resolved but he is now open that he wants to be baptized once said complications are resolved. His brother José Manuel is going to be baptized August 4th, and we've recently had two convert baptisms. One of the members also had a friend move here for the next 6 months who served a mission, has served in numerous callings including bishop and stake presidents councilor. Momentum is picking up. 

The real crazy thing is the power of one. Fransisca, through her own personal conversion has begun sharing the gospel. As fruit of that labor her son was baptized, both her brothers who live here are close or are going to be baptized, and she has introduced us to many of her friends, one of which is currently taking the lessons. As PMG puts it, missionaries "succeed best when members become the source from which new investigators are found" (PMG page 160-161). If only all shared the gospel with the same enthusiasm, or even tried. 

Edin's baptism like I mentioned was super good. We had to change the service time due to some scheduling conflicts but after a few hours of calls everyone knew and showed up on time! Another miracle. It's possible that the last two baptisms have been the only two branch activities to start on time haha. It was a spiritual feast and afterwards Edin mentioned that it was way better than he ever expected. Connor, one of the people who taught him with us, performed the baptism and I confirmed him on Sunday. 



-eric

July 16, 2018

Fam, 

The week went well. 

Tuesday we meet with someone who had been recorded in our records as having been interested but never taught from about 5 years ago. We had been calling all the potentials as we were putting them in to our phone. Most people don't pick up but we had a pretty good conversation with her over the phone and set up a time to come by and do some service. We got there and she explained her story. No money, no food, no family, she can't even work, and the city told her she needed to fix some things in her home or she could lose the house. She had got a notice from the city and was at wits end, prayed to God asking for him to send honest people who could help her. She said as she closed her prayer we called. We talked and at the end of the conversation and we asked if there was any service we could do for her. She jumped on the offer and invited us over. We brought the Pectols, who after our visit took her grocery shopping. We are working on a plan to help her out. It always feels really nice to so clearly be an answer to someone else's prayer like we were.

Teodoro had a great spiritual baptismal service with a attendance almost higher than our sacrament services. We pulled out all the stops and called/invited everyone personally and asked them to come 10 minutes early. It actually worked, a true miracle if I've ever seen one. It started at 7 and ended just after 8. We had a bunch of refreshments and at about 9:05pm I realized we hadn't asked anyone to clean up and everyone was still there. Thankfully a few members volunteered to stay, clean, and lock up. Everything went smoothly except the fact that the plug in the baptismal font doesn't tighten and leaks. As the service began I realized we hadn't turned the water back on to add more warm water and to fill it back up to compensate for the leaking. By the time we got to the baptism it had drained to below his knees! Elder Guerrero performed the baptism and was successful in getting him all the way under the water, but that was an un- welcomed surprise. 

Edin was interviewed the same day as Teodoro's baptism and things went well. I spoke to him after Teodoro's baptism and he said he was even more excited to have his own baptism. 

Sunday afternoon we stopped by to see an investigator who is a little hard to get in contact with. His vision is so impaired that he can't really use his phone, can't drive, and works 13 hours a day (8am-9pm: basically the entire missionary day....... ) 6 days a week. We had a good lesson on the Plan of Salvation. It went super well. He asked the question, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Instantly I was reminded of the interchange between Aaron and King Lamoni's father  in the Book of Mormon when he asked,  "What shall I do that I may have this eternal life of which thou hast spoken?" (Alma 22:15, the whole chapter is good but verse 15 has the question) Like I said it was a super good lesson. It can be really easy to under appreciate the knowledge we have of the plan of Salvation, we focused our lesson around physical and spiritual death and how they are overcome. He was just blown away. We hope to teach the rest of his family our next visit. 

-eric

July 9, 2018

Fam, 

Teodoro and Edin are maintaining their progress really well. Teodoro had his baptismal interview Saturday and it turned out positive. The only thing standing between us and the 14th are the programs. Everything is already planned and assigned. 

We are still meeting with Edin daily. We've been able to have most of the Branch missionaries involved as well as nearly all the YSA aged members. He is reading well, talking with the members he lives with about the gospel, and has been teaching his family back in Guatemala the things we teach him. Things are about as ideal as they can be. 

We did a practice baptisimal interview and he bore his testimony throughout the whole process and it was quite awesome. He got a little hung up on the word of wisdom, he explained the word wisdom instead of the word of wisdom, we clarified things up and he fixed his mistake. 

Thursday we meet Elder Barry, the new Spanish elder. We now have 8 missionaries in the Spanish branch. About 30 minutes before they arrived in Grand Rapids we finally finished carving out the area boundaries. The Stake president sent a proposal which we then slightly edited and then shared that with President Brennan. 

We've worked a little with the stake president on matters concerning the areas as well as the Branch. He impresses me, his understanding and awareness of the Branch and the stake shows a lot of experience and capability. 

Elder Barry and Guerrero have been bunking with us in our apartment since then. Elder Magalei and I cover the northern portion Grand Rapids and everything north of the city in the zone/stake. We likely will be moving to a new apartment so that we don't live like 10 miles outside of our area, so heads up on that. Not sure when that will take place but President said he wants that done as soon as possible. 

We had a pretty fun experience with this one lady this week that spotlighted the importance of the spirit in missionary work. We were talking on the door step with this lady we had spoken with a few days earlier. She was busy but we still had an opportunity to talk with her. She didn't seem interested in a lesson so we just kept talking and taught basically the entire restoration on her door step. We had an opportunity to talk about how the restored gospel of Jesus Christ really helps families be happier and have more direction in their lives and that really invited the spirit. We invited her to read Mosiah 2-5 in the book of mormon and think about the question, "how can I have a happier/stronger family."  We asked her if we could pray with her and she consented. Elder Magalei offered the prayer and after he closed I asked if we could come back in a few days to talk more about the homework we left her. The spirit was able to touch her heart in such a way to change the "oh I'm busy" into a "please come back."  

The Book of Mormon is a super cool book. The doctrine and Covenants is also super cool but that's a different topic. To think that a 20 something year old with 3 years of an education could produce a volume of scripture the length of the Book of Mormon littered with literary complexities, significant biblical parallelism, perfect continuity in theme, story and doctrine, all within 60 days with the kicker being that he dictated it is absolutely insane. Looking at the photos of the original manuscript also brings a level of awe on it own. Aside from the later added punctuation and a handful of scribal errors there isn't a single correction, just straight text. It truly is a marvelous work in a wonder as mentioned in Isaiah 29:14. 

The new Preach My Gospel is also super good. In the lesson about The Gospel of Jesus Christ is makes the point that the Book of Mormon contains the clearest presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, found anywhere in scripture. I read that and realized it is so true. 

Just read any one of the following four chapters in the book of mormon
2 Nephi 31 (pg 113)
Mosiah 18 (pg 181)
3 Nephi 11 (pg 426)
3 Nephi 27 (pg 458) 

And try to find a comparison of clarity anywhere in the Bible.

Also when are we going to be able to get a printed copy of the new Preach My Gospel? Preferable the small size.