Halfway through November

Hello lovely ladies!

You are all amazing and beautiful. Just throwing that out there. Here are this week's announcements and the lesson recap.

1. Tomorrow night at 7pm we are going to the Bishopric members' homes.
2. Wednesday @7pm is Institute @B092 JFSB
3. Thursday @7pm is the Stake Quick Connect @ the Pioneer building.
4. Friday from 6-8pm at Kellie's house, we'll be having a combined Relief Society activity. More details will be posted on the ward Facebook page. If you haven't joined that page, please do so!
5. Sunday, December 8th @6pm is the First Presidency Christmas Devotional.


Our lesson today was taught by none other than the lovely Brittany Bailey.

Brittany Bailey Chapter 17 Lorenzo Snow “Priesthood for the salvation of the human family”

The priesthood we hold has been revealed for the salvation of the human family. We must be lively in our minds in reference to it.

Have you had questions from your nonmember friends about the priesthood?
Ashley: It’s a sign of old fashions traditions and authority.
Emilie: Can women hold it too? Do only men get to have the priesthood?
Brittany: Power in the kingdom of God is something completely different.

D&C 121:34-37
What is power and authority in the world?
-money
Kiersten: putting people down, but priesthood is opposite by serving them
Brittany: compulsion and forcing people to do something they don’t want to do. We think something different in the Church.
In verse 37 it basically says, if you exercise power in the way the world does, amen to your authority in heaven.
41-45. People will want to follow our examples and emulate the Savior.

This is my work and my glory: Elder Ballard
Just as a woman cannot conceive a child without a man, a man cannot fully exercise the power of the priesthood without the woman.

The life of President Snow has great examples of how men can get access to the priesthood and how we can receive those blessings.

Elder Snow said that when he considered preaching the gospel among the Waldenses, “a flood of light seemed to burst upon my mind.”1 But despite these assurances, he felt that it was unwise to begin active missionary work immediately because enemies of the Church had distributed publications among the people, spreading lies about the Church.2 Elder Snow reported, “As I felt it was the mind of the Spirit that we should proceed at first, by slow and cautious steps, I submitted to the will of heaven.”
Although the missionaries did not begin preaching right away, Elder Snow oversaw the publication of pamphlets in Italian and French. In addition, he and his companions befriended the people around them. “We endeavoured to lay a foundation for future usefulness,” he said, “in silently preparing the minds of the people for the reception of the Gospel, by cultivating friendly feelings in the bosoms of those by whom we were surrounded. Yet I felt it rather singular, and no small tax upon patience, to be weeks, and months, in the midst of an interesting people, without being actively and publicly engaged in communicating the great principles which I had come to promulgate.”

He’s with these people and he feels like they’re still not very receptive to the gospel so he’s being their friend and getting to know them.
Then he had the opportunity to give a blessing that wouldn’t only benefit the boy, but also his family and community.

Troubled by the opposition to the preaching of the gospel and concerned about little Joseph Guy, Elder Snow turned to the Lord for help that evening. He later recalled: “For some hours before I retired to rest, I called upon the Lord to assist us at this time. My feelings on this occasion will not be easily erased from memory.

It’s really cool how he was so concerned by what he should say that he spent hours in prayer.

Elder Snow continued: “After a little rest upon the mountains, aside from any likelihood of interruption, we there called upon the Lord in solemn prayer, to spare the life of the child. As I contemplated the course we wished to pursue and the claims we should soon advance to the world, I regarded this circumstance as one of vast importance. I know not any sacrifice which I could possibly make, that I was not willing to offer that the Lord might grant our requests.”

How did he prepare himself to administer the priesthood? There wasn’t anything he was going to with hold from the Lord.

Priesthood bearers are messengers of theAlmighty, with authority delegated from heaven to administer holy ordinances.


We, the Latter-day Saints, profess to have received from God the fulness of the everlasting gospel; we profess to be in possession of the holy Priesthood—the delegated authority of God to man, by virtue of which we administer in its ordinances acceptably to him.8
Any man who will humble himself before God and will be immersed in water, after repentance, for the remission of his sins, shall receive, through the laying on of hands, the gift of the Holy Ghost. Can I give this to him? No, I, simply as a messenger of the Almighty to whom has been delegated authority, administer immersion for the remission of sins; I simply immerse him in water, having authority so to do. I simply lay my hands upon him for the reception of the Holy Ghost, then God, from his presence, acknowledges my authority, acknowledges that I am his messenger, and confers the Holy Ghost upon the individual.9
When [I have] baptiz[ed] people and administer[ed] the ordinances of this holy priesthood, God has confirmed those administrations by imparting the Holy Ghost, giving a knowledge to the individuals to whom I administered, convincing them that the authority was delegated from heaven.
Delegation is to send someone as a representative.
D&C 84:34-38

Why do you think it’s important to prepare ourselves to receive the blessings of the priesthood?
Ginger: if we receive the blessings of the priesthood now that will lead us to receive the blessings of eternal life.
Brittany: vs. 38 being able to receive the blessings of the priesthood is necessary to receiving everything the father has.

Have you ever had the experience where someone had the knowledge that someone was literally administering for Heavenly Father?
Jackie: family promised that they would be sealed in the temple, son would serve mission, daughter would be sealed in the temple. At the time it wasn’t possible at all. But it did happen.
Evie: there was a guy from Sengal who was called to the Bishopric, he set her apart as a Sunday school teacher. He said he couldn’t and didn’t want to because he didn’t know how. He said lines verbatum, lines from my patriarchal blessing. There were lines I didn’t understand and he expanded what she needed to learn. He had no idea. How beautiful blessings can be reiterated at different time of our lives across the country.

Elder Snow talks about how priesthood holders need to serve others.

There are men in this Church who are as good in their hearts and feelings as men ever were, but lack faith and energy, and do not obtain really what is their privilege to receive. If their faith, their energy and determination were equal to their good feelings and desires, their honesty and goodness, they would indeed be mighty men in Israel; and sickness and disease and the power of the evil one would flee before them as chaff before the wind.

Try and bolster our friends in their abilities to administer the priesthood. It’s about them being humble and worthy.

Godliness cannot be conferred but must be acquired, a fact of which the religious world seem[s] strangely and lamentably unconscious. Seek to benefit others, and others will seek to benefit you; and he that would be great, let him be good, studying the interests of the whole, becoming the servant of all.

Brittany: I have a testimony that that is what the Priesthood is about. I’m so grateful for it and that HF has provided a way for us to receive those blessings. I pray we can work on being worthy to receive those blessings.

Ashley: I also know the priesthood is real. Last year I was struggling with some things and the priesthood holder I asked mentioned something at the end that had nothing to do with what I told him was going on, but what was really stressing me out.