Saturday, March 26, 2011

Restoration of Truth

This... Is Elder Coles.  I like the game telephone... even though it is probably the silliest games ever, I still like it.  I seem to like to do alot of silly things.  Anyways this one day we were playing telephone........... (Based on a true story, and I'm actually in this one.)

The game of telephone was about to start.  Everyone... and I mean everyone was getting so excited for this game.  This was going to be legendary... because none other than Roe Vonson was going to be starting off the game with the best line ever to be passed around the circle.  Roe... started the game.
"Be excellent to each other... and... Party on dudes!"  It was the most epic line anyone had ever heard in the history of the game of telephone.  The person who he whispered it to (Spanner) was blown away.  As Spanner gained his composure... he passed it on to the next person.  I was sitting about half way around the circle when the line was whispered into my ear.
"ashweshababashooweeshabba... Party on dudes!"  I was confused.  I didn't really understand why everyone thought this line was so cool... because it didn't make any sense.  I whispered it into my friends ear, and apparently I am no good at this game and she just laughed the whole time I was telling her the epic line.  Long story short... the most epic line in telephone history got distorted and the only way we found out what the line was at the end Roe stood up and told everyone what the line was.


Alright... lets tie this to the gospel.  Jesus Christ came down to earth, and while he was on this earth he established His church.  He didn't establish 1000 churches like we see today.  He established HIS 1 church.  Jesus knew he would be slain for the sins of the world, so he gave his priesthood authority to his apostles and they were to take charge and run the church after he left.  The people listened for a time, but then they killed the apostles as well, and that priesthood authority was taken off the earth along with the apostles.  Without this authority, people relied on human wisdom to make sure the church ran smoothly, and some plain and precious truths were lost and distorted to conform to the ways of men, such as baptism and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost (kind of like how the most epic line in the game of telephone was distorted) and many churches were formed.  The only way that Jesus' church could be established once again, (and the only way Roe's epic line could be known to everyone) is he had to come down and appear to someone and call them to establish his church once again, and that is exactly what he did.     

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