Fireside given to Lovutialau Branch

Objective:  Each person will recognize his worth and value, and catch a glimpse of his potential.

1. On board: What is the worth of a soul?  Who are you?
   1. How long have you been around?
   2. Where did you come from?
   3. What did you look like before you were born?
      1. No body
      2. A being of light
   4. Who was your father?
   5. Who was your mother?
   6. How well did you know your Father?
      1. How well do your children know you?
   7. Do you love your children?
      1. How much do you suppose the Father loves you?
   8. Who do children grow up and become like?
   9. Do you hope they will grow up to be unhappy—or happy?
      1. It is the same with the Father
2. Why did we have to leave Him?
   1. So that we could become like Him
      1. We needed a body
      2. We needed experience
      3. We needed to learn the difference between good and evil
   2. We were given the gift of agency
      1. What is agency? (POST POSTER)
         1. The right to choose
      2. Did we already have that gift before we came to earth?
         1. We had to choose between God’s plan and Lucifer’s
         2. Which plan did we choose?
         3. How do you know?
         4. How many chose Lucifer’s plan?
         5. Where are they?
      3. Here we are having to choose all over again
3. What is God’s work?
   1. Moses 1:39 (POST POSTER)
      1. ”For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”
      2. What is Satan’s work? (POST POSTER)
         1. 2 Nephi 2:18, 27
            1. This is my work and my purpose, to bring to pass the misery and destruction of man.
      3. What is your work? (POST POSTER)
         1. D&C 11:20
            1. “Behold, this is your work, to keep my commandments, yea, with all your might, mind and strength”
   2. Suppose you keep the commandments. Where do you go when you die?
      1. Paradise
      2. Suppose you don’t keep the commandments. Where do you go when you die?
         1. Spirit prison. This is hell.
         2. Do you stay there forever?
            1. “During this hundred years [of Church history] many other great truths not known before, have been declared to the people, and one of the greatest is that to hell there is an exit as well as an entrance…it is a place prepared for the teaching, the disciplining of those who failed to learn here upon the earth what they should have learned…No man will be kept in hell longer than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better.  When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.”  —James E. Talmage, in Conference Report,April, 1930
         3. How do people get out?
4. What is the resurrection?
   1. Suppose you go to Paradise, where do you go at the resurrection?
      1. Where is the Celestial Kingdom?
   2. Suppose you got sealed in the temple, what will you be doing in the Celestial Kingdom?
      1. You will be gods and goddesses, just like your Father and Mother
      2. You will have spirit children
      3. You will create earths for them to go to.
      4. Every world that you create will be added to your Father’s kingdom.
      5. How many worlds are there already?
      6. How many children will you have?
         1. Abrahamic covenant
         2. As many as the stars in heaven
         3. As many as the sands in all the deserts and upon all the seashores of the world
         4. What is this number—1,000—1,000,000—1,000,000,000—etc.
            1. 1)    That is how many children you will have
   3. Suppose you don’t make it to the Celestial Kingdom?
      1. Live separately and singly—“For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are angels of God forever and ever.” (D&C 132:17)
      2. What happens to all the children you would have had and to all the worlds you would have created?
   4. Does it matter what you do?
      Does it matter whether or not you go to church every Sunday?
      Does it matter whether you learn how to teach a lesson and to speak in  church?
      Does it matter whether or not you get sealed in the temple?
      1. Who is affected by your decisions? (all 1 quintillion of your potential descendants)
      2. How important are you?
      3. Who are you?
         1. You are a son or a daughter of God
         2. Who are you striving to become like?