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Waking Up Zion — The Book

Waking Up Zion --- The Book

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INTRODUCTION Not a Faith Crisis — A Truth Awakening This isn’t a book about walking away. It’s a book about walking deeper. Deeper into Jesus. Deeper into His voice, His light, and His truth. For years, I loved my faith. I still do. The Church gave me structure. It gave me good people. It taught me to honor prophets and scriptures. To seek the Holy Ghost. To follow Christ. But somewhere along the way, I started asking quiet questions— Not to tear down, but to understand more. Where is the power of the Book of Mormon? Where is the fire of the early Saints? Where is the Jesus who speaks face to face? This book isn’t here to fight the Church. It’s here to reach the hearts of those in it — Especially those who feel something is missing, but don’t yet have words for it. I believe God is still working. But I also believe He is calling many of His children out of comfort and into courage. Out of tradition and into truth. Out of a system and into a personal walk with His Son. If you love the C...
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🌿 When Science Changes Its Mind — and Faith Is Still Standing

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4 🌿   When Science Changes Its Mind — and Faith Is Still Standing This post is personal. I have a son who left the Church years ago. Not out of rebellion. Not because he didn’t care. But because he was trying to be honest. At the time, the story sounded settled. Scientists said Native Americans came   only   from Siberia, crossing the Bering land bridge. And critics said the Book of Mormon couldn’t possibly be true because the DNA didn’t match. On top of that, my son was taught — confidently — that Joseph Smith was a pedophile. Those two things together were enough to shake him loose. And I don’t blame him. 🧬   What Science Said Then… and What It’s Saying Now For years, the academic world pushed a single, clean explanation: One migration One route One origin Siberia → Bering Strait → Americas Case closed. Anyone who questioned it was labeled fringe. But science has a funny habit of doing this thing called   learning . Today, DNA research — especially among Eas...
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Video 42 🌿 When the Incense Is Taken Away -------------- Samuel the Lamanite’s Warning for Our Day

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  🌿 When the Incense Is Taken Away Samuel the Lamanite’s Warning for Our Day There are some lines of scripture that don’t shout. They don’t threaten. They don’t accuse. They just   won’t leave you alone . This is one of those lines. “In the day when the holy incense is taken away from the ordinances of my Holy House…” — Second Book of Tsi Muhayl 8:38 At first glance, it sounds symbolic. Poetic. Ancient. But it isn’t. It’s a warning — and a very specific one. 🕊️ Who Is Speaking Here? In the Book of Mormon, we know him as   Samuel the Lamanite . The prophet who stood on the wall. The one sent   outside   the religious center to warn the people. The one who loved them enough to speak hard truth — without hatred. In the   Nemenhah Records , Samuel is known as   Tsi Muhayl . And according to those records, Samuel didn’t end with Helaman. He returned. He spoke again. And his words were preserved   for this generation . That matters — because Samuel’s ...
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🕊️ Sacred Clarity of the Mind When Thought Prepares the Way

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🕊️ Sacred Clarity of the Mind When Thought Prepares the Way Please watch this video first. Really — start there. 👉   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11XPxIHNWc&t=108s I’ve known the man who made this video for several years, and I’ve learned a lot from him. This talk is thoughtful, grounded, and right on target when it comes to the power of thought, inner responsibility, and the reality that consciousness is deeper — and longer — than just the body. Before reading anything below, I encourage you to watch the video all the way through. I’ll build from there. 🌿 Why This Video Resonates One of the strongest things this video does is remind us that   thought is not neutral . Thought comes   before   action. Before habit. Before character. Before destiny. That isn’t new. It’s ancient. What we repeatedly think, we slowly become. I’ve found this to be true not just psychologically, but spiritually. Long before outward change happens, something shifts quietly inside....
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🌿 The Atonement Is a Total Change ------------------- What Actually Happens When We Walk With Christ

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  🌿 The Atonement Is a Total Change What Actually Happens When We Walk With Christ For a long time, I thought the Atonement was mostly about forgiveness. Jesus suffered. Jesus paid. Jesus covered my sins. I believed that. I still do. But as I’ve gotten older — and slower — I’ve realized something important: Most of what God does in us doesn’t happen through explanations. It happens through   experience . And when the Atonement really begins to work inside a person, it doesn’t just clean things up. It   changes who you are . 🔥 Some Things Can Only Be Learned by Living Them There are things in life you can understand with words, and things you can only understand once you’ve lived them. I could explain pain to you. I could explain exhaustion. I could explain fear. But until you wake up at night and can’t turn over without bracing yourself — you don’t really   know . Once you’ve lived it, nobody has to convince you. That’s when I started to understand something about ...
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Video 41 🌿 What Changes When You Walk With Jesus

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  🌿 What Changes When You Walk With Jesus I’ve been noticing something. Not all at once. Not loudly. Just quietly, over time. When a person really walks with Jesus, something begins to change inside them. It’s not dramatic. It’s not forced. It’s easy to miss if you’re not paying attention. But once you notice it, you can’t un-notice it. Some Things Can Only Be Learned by Living Them There are things you can understand because someone explains them to you. And there are things you only understand once you’ve lived them. Pain is like that. Fear is like that. Healing is like that. Once you’ve lived something, it gets written into you. That’s when the Atonement started to make more sense to me. Jesus doesn’t just forgive us from a distance. He comes close enough that His way of seeing the world starts to become our way of seeing it. Scripture Describes This Kind of Change The scriptures talk about this kind of transformation. King Benjamin taught words he received from an angel, and t...
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🌿 How Many “Falling Aways” Are There — Really?

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  🌿  How Many “Falling Aways” Are There — Really? This is something that sat with me for a long time. We hear it often: “There was a great falling away… and then the Restoration fixed it.” But when you slow down, open the scriptures, and simply   watch the pattern , a natural question rises: Which falling away are we talking about? Or…   are there more than one? I’m not trying to attack anyone here. I’m just trying to let the scriptures speak for themselves. 🕊️ A Pattern the Scriptures Keep Repeating One thing I’ve learned is this: God doesn’t change — people do. And the scriptures show a repeating rhythm: God reveals truth People rejoice Structure forms Authority replaces revelation The Spirit withdraws God begins again… quietly This isn’t accusation. It’s observation. 📜 Paul Warned of a Falling Away   After Christ Paul wrote to believers — not pagans — and gave this warning: Second Epistle to the Thessalonians   2:3 “That day shall not come, except the...
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🌿 Walking With Jesus When You’re Simply Still (Companion Blog for Video 40)

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  🌿 Walking With Jesus When You’re Simply Still (Companion Blog for Video 40) 📺   Companion Video 40 — Talk With Jesus Daily You can watch the video here: 👉   https://www.youtube.com/@TheTrueRemnant/videos If you haven’t watched the video yet, I suggest starting there. This blog is for seasons when there’s no strong emotion pulling you, no clear question demanding an answer — just a quiet sense of   being with Him . And as always, let me say this gently at the start: If you have questions, or if something here settles into you and you want to talk it through,   please feel free to ask . I don’t have all the answers — but I care, and I’ll try to respond as soon as I can. You don’t have to walk this alone. There comes a point in the walk with Jesus when you’re not trying to fix anything. Not striving. Not searching. Not explaining. Just… still. And for people used to movement, that kind of stillness can feel strange. But it can also be holy. 🌱 Stillness Is Not...
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