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How To Assist Early Returned Missionaries As a mission president one of the most difficult tasks to participate in is to send a missionary home early, regardless of the reason.

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Language that Edifies

I love to watch good movies. Unfortunately, my choices of what I can attend or watch on television, especially with my family, have, in recent years, become limited because many movies are being filled with harsh, course, crude, vulgar, and profane language. I have been deeply disappointed that many otherwise good movies are, in my way of thinking, virtually ruined because of profane references…

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As For Me and My House

Few events have riled up both sides of the same-sex marriage issue more than the announcement of the decision reached by the Supreme Court on June 26, 2015. As I read the media’s take on the issue and the remarks of the dissenting judges, the scripture from Doctrine and Covenants 108:7 came into my mind. The Lord in a revelation to Lyman Sherman, said: “Therefore, strengthen your brethren in all…

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In the Mouth of Two or Three Witnesses

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As each of us tries to make our way through life and our individual trials, we are met with disappointment, grief, pain, rejection, disillusionment, self-doubt and insecurity. At times, our very testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, His church, and His leaders can come into question. I believe few of us have not at one time or another gone through times of doubt and even…

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Called To Serve | Jack R Christianson

In June 2010, my wife and I were called to serve in Rochester, NY. May this little message lift all of us and help us to increase faith in Jesus Christ.

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Called To Serve

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In June 2010, my wife and I were called to serve in Western New York so I could preside over the New York Rochester Mission and she could serve as a full-time missionary. We had been there only a few weeks when we had a visit from Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy. He was very helpful and we shared some precious private time together at the Sacred Grove and the Hill Cumorah before he had to…

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Walk With Me

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For as long as I can remember, I have loved the passage of scripture found in Matthew 25: 35-45. I will not quote the entire passage here in this blog but hopefully, each reader will read it on their own in order to see the value of caring for each individual with whom they associate on a daily basis. Verses 38-40 reads: When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?…

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Seize the Day - Part 3

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For weeks after the accident described in last week’s post, I reviewed my life, tried to make necessary changes, and relived the events of the accident over and over in my mind. At times I cried. Often, I felt incredible guilt. Weekly visits to the hospital were made to visit Michael and talk with his family. Little did I realize then how my life would intertwine with Michael’s family for many…

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Seize the Day - Part 2

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My older brother, Tom, has been a car dealer for many years. Sometime in 1969 or 1970 he provided my Sister Diann and I with a 1962 white Cadillac convertible to share. It quickly gained the name of the “White Stallion.”

In May 1970, Taylor Manning and I drove the “Stallion” up Provo Canyon to Sundance Ski Resort. During the drive we kept the top down. We were laughing and having the time of our…

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Seize the day

Forty-Five years ago I had a car accident involving one of my dearest childhood friends, Taylor Manning and a ten-year old boy named Michael. That day in May 1970 left each of us changed for the rest of our lives. For the next three-blog posts, I will allude to this experience. This week I will introduce it; next week I will tell the story from my perspective and the following week I will post…

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Lessons from My Mother | Jack R Christianson

A tribute to my mother, who passed away April 25, 2015, she was one of the greatest blessings and influences in my life.

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Light and Healing | Jack R Christianson

A loving Heavenly Father has given us the gift of agency so that we may choose for ourselves whether we will side with the light or the darkness.

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People Matter Most | Leadership | Jack R Christianson

A true leader knows that people are what really matter. When people feel that from their leader, the Desired results are achieved.

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The Sorority of Saviorhood | Jack R Christianson

As God teaches us, “That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit, which I have made and so become of dust a living soul . . . ” The dust of the earth, then, is... Read more »