Michael Scriptures

So, last month the Primary theme was about being a missionary ("Because I know we are all children of God, I will share the gorpel with others" to be exact), and since my brother, Michael, is on a mission I asked him to share some of his favorite scriptures with me so I could share them with my kids during our morning devotionals. You know, reinforce the whole idea of being a missionary and sharing the gospel and help them feel closer to him while he is away because they keep asking when they get to see him again. Which is better than them not asking about him at all. Anyways, short explanation turning long, and Michael being the good missionary he is, he sent a huge list!! So I decided to share some with all of you. I copied and pasted this from the online scriptures at www.lds.org so it even has all the footnotes, should anyone wonder or care.

Joseph Smith-History 1:16-17
16. But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.

17. It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. 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!