Archive for September 2006
How many epistles are in the Book of Mormon?
Who wrote them?
Answers are below. Feel free to write comments about how well you were able to do on these questions.
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There are eight epistles in the Book of Mormon.
They were written by:
Captain Moroni (2) / Alma 54:5-14 and Alma 60:1-36
Ammoron (brother of Amalickiah) / Alma 54:16-24
Helaman / Alma 56:2-Alma 58:41
Pahoran / Alma 61:2-21
Giddianhi / 3 Nephi 3:2-10
Mormon (2) / Moroni 8:2-30 and Moroni 9:1-26
Note: I want to thank Jeff Lindsay for publishing this information on his website — in an article by Richard Dilworth Rust and Donald W. Parry. I thought of the question and then, being lazy, googled to see if I would find the answer. I found the answer very quickly on this page.
I’ve added a “Phase 4″ picture to the post regarding my current art project. You can see all four pictures there. I’m approaching the stage where I’m going to add color.
Tonight we went to the new chapel for some cleanup and what I could only refer to as “setup”. It’s a beautiful building inside as well as outside. Two wards are sharing this building — our ward and a singles ward. There were a lot of people there helping out with what needed to be done.
As a couple, our assigned job was to unwrap the plastic from new pianos (four total) and dust them off. That was a good task for us because we didn’t have a lot of time — tonight the missionaries were coming over to our house with some investigators. Besides the pianos there is also a new organ. As we were removing the packing plastic from one of the pianos we could hear the organ playing prelude music. The odd thing was that no one was sitting behind the organ - it has recorded music programmed right into it. I haven’t previously observed that kind of an instrument in a LDS chapel. I have to wonder whether that feature would ever be used during a sacrament meeting.
The new chapel feels like such a sacred place already. I brought my camera but ended up taking only one picture. Time was short and we were busy … but besides that, taking a lot of photos just didn’t feel appropriate.This line of framed artworks waiting to be hung on the walls seemed like as good an example as anything of what is happening.
New York City certainly has its share of street art. On the way to work each morning I often pass by this depiction of a skeleton with a cell-phone. Yesterday morning as I was walking by I couldn’t help but notice how (from this particular spot) the tree branches almost seem to frame the picture.
My friend David Fletcher has started a blog called The Invisible Man.