The True Remnant

 🎵 Listen First (recommended) Before you read, take a few minutes and listen to this song. Sit quietly if you can… and let the words settle slowly. 👉 Listen to the song here 🕊️ When the Soul Gets Quiet What if God speaks more softly than we expect? Have you ever noticed… how the deepest moments with God are usually quiet? Not loud. Not dramatic. Just… still. A song like this doesn’t try to overpower you. It doesn’t push. It simply creates space. And sometimes… space is exactly what the soul has been needing. 🌿 Why Is Silence So Hard? Why do we keep filling every quiet moment? More noise. More scrolling. More distraction. Could it be… that silence sometimes brings us face-to-face with what’s really inside us? And could it also be… that silence is where we finally begin to hear Him? 🪶 The Gentle Voice The scriptures often describe God’s voice quietly. A whisper. A still small voice. Not forcing. Not demanding. So what if we’ve been listening for thunder… while He’s been speaking...

 Zion (Soft Summary) 📝 What I Thought Zion Was vs What I See Now For most of my life… I thought I understood what Zion was. 🏙️ What I Thought Zion Meant I pictured something big. A place. A people. An organized effort. Something you build. Something you prepare for. Something that eventually shows up… if everything is done right. 🧠 The Way I Saw It Zion, to me, felt like a system. Structure. Programs. Rules. Readiness. Almost like if we followed the right steps… we would get there. 🌱 Something Started Shifting But as I kept walking this path… that idea started to soften. Not disappear. Just… change. ❤️ What I Started Noticing I started noticing something simple. The closer I felt to Him… the less complicated everything else felt. Not more structure. Not more layers. Less. 🕊️ Zion Felt Different Zion stopped feeling like something far away. Something we had to build someday. And started feeling like something… that begins right here. Inside. 👣 Not a System — A Way of Living I ...

   The Chiasm That Shows Alma’s Conversion (Hidden Patterns in Scripture Series) 🧭   Opening In the last video I talked about the moment when I first discovered something called   chiasmus   in scripture. A literary pattern ancient writers often used. Today I want to show you one of the most beautiful examples. It comes from the story of   Alma the Younger’s conversion   in the Book of Mormon. And once you see the pattern, the story becomes even more powerful. 📜   What Chiasmus Looks Like Chiasmus is a mirror pattern. It works like this: A B C D C B A The center is usually the   most important idea . Ancient Hebrew writers used this structure to highlight their message. 🌿   Alma’s Conversion Pattern If we simplify Alma’s experience in Alma 36, it looks something like this: A — Alma rebels against God B — Alma is confronted by an angel C — Alma feels deep fear and guilt D — Alma cries out for Jesus Christ C — Alma feels overwhelming jo...

🌿 Who Do You Trust Anymore? The older I get, the more I find myself scratching my head. Everywhere you look, somebody is telling you what to believe. The government tells you what to believe. The news tells you what to believe. The churches tell you what to believe. The historians tell you what to believe. The internet tells you what to believe. Now even artificial intelligence is telling you what to believe. And the funny thing is, half of them disagree with the other half. A few days ago I listened to a video discussing church finances, tithing, Ensign Peak, hidden funds, and some of the history surrounding Lorenzo Snow's teachings on tithing. Some of it was difficult to hear. Some of it confirmed things I had already discovered. Some of it raised questions. And some of it reminded me of a lesson the Lord has been teaching me for many years. 🌿 The real issue isn't the money. The real issue isn't the history. The real issue isn't even the institution. The real issue ...

  🪶 What Is the Real Test of This Life? I’ve been thinking about something lately. Not in a big scholarly way. Just in a   sit-on-the-porch-and-think-about-it   kind of way. You hear people say all the time that   life is a test . And the scriptures say that too. In the   Book of Abraham   the Lord says we came to earth to be   proved . For years I thought that meant something complicated. Like we were supposed to come down here and perfectly follow a giant checklist of religious rules. But the older I get, the simpler it looks. I’m starting to think the real test is this: Will we learn to listen to the Savior’s voice? That’s it. 🌾 The Iron Rod In the   Book of Mormon   there’s the vision of the iron rod. Most of us grew up hearing that the iron rod is the   word of God . And that’s true. But the word of God isn’t just something printed on paper. The Savior is still speaking. Sometimes it’s just a quiet nudge inside your heart. Somethi...

  ⚖️ The Decision Wheel How Zion People Learn to Discern the Way 🪶 Out of all the wheels we worked through, this one may have surprised me the most. At first, I honestly thought the Decision Wheel would simply become another symbolic diagram. But the more we talked through it, the more practical it became. Because eventually I realized: Zion rises or falls through decisions. Daily decisions. Small decisions. Quiet decisions nobody else even sees. And honestly? Most of Babylon is built one bad decision at a time. Usually rushed. Usually fear-based. Usually ego-driven. Usually disconnected from stewardship, peace, and long-term consequences. The Nemenhah records repeatedly point toward something very different. Not domination. Discernment. 🌿 One thing that deeply stands out in the records is how often people are warned about imbalance. Pride. Greed. Control. Fear. Forgetting future generations. Ignoring the poor. Using authority incorrectly. Seeking power instead of harmony. Again ...