Just in time to help teachers and students in Gospel Doctrine classes!

Thanks to the efforts of Elder Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, who is currently serving as a missionary with his wife in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa Mission, the Interpreter Foundation is in a position to post some materials that, we believe and hope, will be of interest and of benefit to both teachers and class members in the Gospel Doctrine classes of the Church.  The first of these items has now appeared:

“Why Did Moses Seem to Repeat the Same Experience Twice in His Vision?  An Old Testament KnoWhy for Personal Study of Gospel Doctrine Lesson 1:  ‘This Is My Work and My Glory’ (Moses 1)”

And so has the second:

“What Was the Nature of Satan’s Premortal Proposal?  An Old Testament KnoWhy for Gospel Doctrine Lesson 2: ‘Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born’ (Abraham 3; Moses 4:1-4)”

Enjoy!

Elder Bradshaw, by the way, is a vice president and a member of the executive board of the Interpreter Foundation.  I cannot praise him enough for his labors on behalf of Interpreter and — much more importantly — for the Lord, and for the Lord’s Church and Kingdom.  He has been invaluable to Interpreter, and the Latter-day Saints in the Congo are fortunate to have him and his wife there.

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In this Church curriculum year, largely devoted to the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, many of you will also want to follow Benjamin the Scribe.

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A gracious note, tweeted on 3 January, by Professor Robert P. George, the very distinguished McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, who is an eminent conservative thinker, a Roman Catholic, and a friend of both Brigham Young University and the Latter-day Saints:

To my beloved LDS friends: My deepest condolences on the death of President Thomas Monson. He was a man of exceptional generosity and dedication for whom I had respect and admiration. He leaves a great legacy. May his memory be a blessing to you and your posterity.

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Finally, a quotation from President George Q. Cannon (d. 1901), a man for whom I have enormous respect:

Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.