Paisley: Hey, everybody. Paisley, imperfect, and I am
here today for our very first make a plan Monday for 2025 we
are finishing up 2024 there are only two days left right, Monday
and Tuesday of 2024 and they got us started right away on the
restoration of the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, or
as the chapter is titled, The Promised restoration goes
forward. So let's take a look and see what we've got. Notice,
it's not doctrine and covenant section one, it's the
restoration of the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and
something to think about. I've looked through some of these.
I've looked through all of January. I started looking into
February a little bit trying to decide how I wanted to structure
the Make a plan Mondays for the Doctrine and Covenants, because
they have changed it up a little bit in a really good way, in a
really cool way. And something to keep in mind, something that
struck me as I was looking at all of this, there are only 138
sections of the Doctrine and Covenants, but there are 365
days in a year. So we are not going to have a section of the
Doctrine and Covenants every single day. In fact, if you look
over here on the left side, we have section one, which is
January 6 through 12th, and then we don't do section two until
January 20, which is two weeks later, or sorry, just Well,
yeah, two weeks later and January 13 through 19th. Has two
different things for us to look at, which we will do when we get
there. Let's not jump ahead too far. We'll stick for now. We'll
stick with December 30 through January 5. And just look at
this. I just wanted to point out that there are fewer sections of
the Doctrine and Covenants than there are days in the year. So
we're going to get to study a lot of extra, a lot of other
things as well throughout the year. All right, let's see what
we got here. So we have the Come follow me book, and then we have
hear him right here from President Nelson. And then we
have, you may remember the monument of words that they
created. So they talked about a monument back in 2020 when it
was getting close to 200 years since Joseph Smith's first
vision, they talked about perhaps creating a monument for
it, and decided to create a monument of words instead. And
so they wrote a document titled The restoration of the fullness
of the gospel of Jesus Christ, a bicentennial proclamation to the
world. So that is also linked right here. And something that
I've added to the study plan for this week, if we keep going,
there's a talk here by Elder Gong, all nations, kindreds and
tongues. That'll be cool. Also, November 2020, there's the
restoration proclamation, which is the same thing as this right
here. I only put that in once, and then we have Joseph Smith
history, chapter one, verses five through 20. I did not
include that because that's coming up over here in January,
later on in January, verses five through 20 will be included in
this section right here. If you want to get a head start, feel
free. And then, if we keep going, we have an opportunity to
create our own notes in here. So what do you know about Christ's
New Testament Church? We you can go through and look at Matthew
Mark, Luke acts first, Corinthians and Ephesians, and
create your own note things that you learned about Christ's New
Testament Church. And as you're doing that, think about how that
compares with the church that you know today. Then the section
or the next piece is to look at like section 18, section 107,
5170, and create your notes based on what you find in the
Doctrine and Covenants versus what you found in the New
Testament. And then there's more questions, prompting answers.
Really, in my opinion, it looks like they're really trying to
get us to think this through and really solidify our testimony.
Because remember what President Nelson has said over and over
again, that it will be impossible for us to survive
spiritually without the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
So I think that they're really trying to help us solidify that
foundational testimony. Here's another piece, a perfect
brightness of hope. This one is from elder Holland. And then if
you want to dive into the topics and questions on the apostasy
and the Restoration of the gospel, there's a link right
there for that. I did not include that in my checklist.
There's another talk down here from President Uchtdorf. Are you
sleep? Through the restoration I'm kind of actually looking
forward to going through that one again. That was May in 2014
and I honestly don't remember that one. There's another link
to the restoration proclamation. There's another link to the
restoration proclamation. I think they kind of maybe want us
to study that this week. Just a thought. And then there's
another talk here from elder Cook, the blessing of continuing
revelation to prophets and personal revelation to God our
lives. So we get to talk about or learn about Revelation,
Revelation as it comes to the Prophet. Joseph Smith,
Revelation as it comes to ourselves. Excuse me. And then
here's a quick six minute testimony from President Nelson.
There's again, restoration proclamation. Joseph Smith had
questions. It's okay to have questions. Have questions. We
can look at Joseph Smith history again. I did not include those
in the checklist because those will be included in a couple of
weeks. And then there's a children's song. This is my
beloved Son, which is a really good song. There's an activity
page down here at the bottom. We'll look at that here in a
second. Another link to the restoration proclamation. And
then there's this video, two and a half minutes long. We actually
watched that for family night tonight. We like to start our
week on Sunday night with a quick video, kind of an intro
for the week. And then sometimes I bring stuff up with the kids
throughout the week, like, Hey, I learned this really cool thing
about Joseph Smith, or last year with being the Book of Mormon, I
really like this thing. I read about Moroni, things like that.
There's a printable copy of the Restoration of the fullness of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, if you decide you want to print
that and hang it in your home somewhere. And then here's the
activity page that was referenced before. It's got
different sections and how the gospel was restored, from the
first vision to receiving the priesthood and keys in the
temple and all of that. So that is everything that's in here.
And let me show you how I broke it down for myself. My plan
looks like this, on Monday I'm going to do hear him, excuse me,
zoom in on that a little bit. Monday, I'm going to do hear him
with President Nelson on Tuesday, the restoration of the
fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And you can read, watch
or listen to that Wednesday, all nations, kindreds and tongues
from elder Gong and the video about the Doctrine and Covenants
The Lord speaks again. And that's that super short video at
the end. Honestly, I probably won't watch it again on
Wednesday, but I I added it here just in case I feel like I need
something extra. Thursday is a perfect brightness of hope from
elder Holland. Friday, are you sleeping through the restoration
from elder Uchtdorf? And then last but not least, Saturday,
the blessing of continuing revelation to prophets and
personal revelation to guide our lives. So on average, it's about
18 minutes a day. Hear him from President Nelson, is 24 and a
half minutes. That's the longest day. The restoration of the
fullness of Jesus Christ, that's nine and a half minutes. If you
listen to it, there was a video for it. The video is only six
minutes, so it just depends on which link you click on. One's
going to be nine and nine and a half, and the other one's going
to be six. So one of them probably has some music in it,
or something cool like that. All nations, kindreds and tongues
from elder Gong is almost 15. It's just barely under 15
minutes. And then that video about the Doctrine and
Covenants, that was two and a half. So that's about 1617, and
a half minutes. And then speaking of 17 and a half
minutes, that's how long a perfect brightness of hope is.
That one is 17 minutes and 45 seconds. Are you sleeping
through? The restoration is 18 and a half and then the one with
the longest title is the shortest talk. That one is 14
minutes and 10 seconds, the blessing of continuing
revelation to prophets and personal revelation to guide our
lives. So all told, on average, about 18 minutes a day, with the
longest one being that very first one on Monday, hear him
from President Nelson. Anyway, that's how I have broken up my
week. What does yours look like? I appreciate you guys being
here. Thank you so much, and I'll see you again soon.
Unknown: You.