Mormonism<\/a>. \u00a0She told, too, of reasoning her way into belief in the calling of Joseph Smith but then, as a young missionary, seeking and receiving a spiritual witness to undergird her logic. \u00a0The third speaker, husband of the second, addressed the topic of what we can learn about God from Joseph Smith\u2019s First Vision.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
We opted not to attend either the Mandarin Gospel Doctrine class or the Korean one.<\/p>\n
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I love to see the Church this way, where people of different languages and cultures and ethnicities come together in something far greater than any of our historic human divisions. \u00a0It\u2019s a vision of the way things ought to be, and, I hope, of the future.<\/p>\n
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19\u00a0<\/span>Now therefore ye are no more\u00a0strangers\u00a0and foreigners, but\u00a0fellowcitizens\u00a0with the\u00a0saints, and of the\u00a0household\u00a0of God;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n20\u00a0<\/span>And are built upon the foundation of the\u00a0apostles\u00a0and\u00a0prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief\u00a0corner\u00a0stone<\/span>;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n21\u00a0<\/span>In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. \u00a0<\/strong>(Ephesians 2)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
19\u00a0<\/span>Now therefore ye are no more\u00a0strangers\u00a0and foreigners, but\u00a0fellowcitizens\u00a0with the\u00a0saints, and of the\u00a0household\u00a0of God;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n20\u00a0<\/span>And are built upon the foundation of the\u00a0apostles\u00a0and\u00a0prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief\u00a0corner\u00a0stone<\/span>;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n21\u00a0<\/span>In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord. \u00a0<\/strong>(1 Peter \u00a02)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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