Impressions are easier to share when they have been written down. You may feel that some impressions you receive are insignificant at first, but recording them is like planting a seed-with some nurturing and pondering, the seed can grow into a mighty spiritual redwood. Then he said, if at a later date doubts or questions arise, they can reread what they have recorded and it will help restore or bring back the spiritual feelings of that sacred day in their life. A ward mission leader once told me that he invited all new converts on the day of their baptism to record their feelings that night. Recording impressions preserves not only the message given, but it can also preserve the feelings of the moment. Second, it preserves the feelings of the moment. King Benjamin realized this, for when speaking to his sons he explained that without the various scriptural records available to them, they would have “suffered in ignorance … for it were not possible that our father, Lehi, could have remembered all these things, to have taught them to his children, except it were for the help of these plates” ( Mosiah 1:3–4). An old Chinese proverb states, “The palest ink is better than the best memory.” Memories and feelings fade with time. It allows us to preserve the knowledge exactly as given. Recording spiritual promptings results in at least the following blessings:įirst, it preserves the integrity of the message. Similarly, when Alma received revelation, “he wrote down that he might have them” ( Mosiah 26:33). Three times He commanded them to write “while were yet in the Spirit” (see D&C 76:28, 80, 113). The Lord taught the foregoing principle to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon as they received the marvelous vision on the three kingdoms of glory. Finally, my wife said: “Why do you keep popping in and out of bed?” I replied, “Because I had several impressions and felt the need to write them down.” On occasions prior to my mission, I had had impressions while in bed and simply thought, “I will write them down in the morning when it is more convenient.” But you know what happens when you do that-you often forget the exact impression or lose the power of the message. One night, while on my mission, I kept getting in and out of bed. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles invited me to take the time to record every spiritual impression I received. When we do so, we show the Lord we value His counsel and are ready for more.īefore I left to preside over the Canada Toronto Mission, Elder Richard G. One of the ways we can enhance our personal revelation is to write down and record spiritual insights and impressions when they come.
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