FHE

This past weekend I entered the testing room of BYU's HGB for the first time this semester with the intent of taking a test--twice. And I totally followed through--both times! The first test was for a physics class that I should have taken two semesters ago and that is a prerequisite for a class I took last semester and one that I'm taking this semester. Thusly, most of the first month's material was review, and I aced it! The second test was for my Doctrine and Covenants class. It was comprised wholly of two essay questions so I'm not sure how I did, although I feel pretty good about it. I came up to campus at 7:30 this morning and haven't been back home since. I did take a short hiatus for Family Home Evening tonight, though. We watched the Restoration video, and I loved it!

This video tells about the first modern-day prophet of our church, the prophet Joseph Smith. It portrays the events that led Joseph to turn to God in prayer and ask Him about his own personal salvation and about which church he should affiliate himself with. I love Joseph's own account of what happened after he prayed:

"I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. [...]

"When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other--This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!" (Joseph Smith--History 1:16,17--http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1)

God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith! This happened in 1820 and ushered in the long-promised dispensation of the fulness of times. (See Ephesians 1:10--
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/eph/1) Joseph received many other revelations and visions in the following years as he built up God's kingdom on the earth, but the video I watched this evening just shows the beginnings of all that. http://mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/#d
I love it!