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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 DNA Speaks — and Ancient Voices Answer

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5 🌿   When DNA Speaks — and Ancient Voices Answer I want to slow this down and talk plainly. Because this isn’t just about science. And it isn’t just about history. It’s about people — real people — who walked away from faith because the story they were given didn’t hold together anymore. I’ve watched it happen up close. And now, quietly, the ground is shifting again. 🧬   What the Video Is Really Saying The video you watched wasn’t making wild claims. It was pointing out something honest and increasingly unavoidable: Cherokee DNA — and the DNA of other Eastern tribes — does   not   fit a simple “Siberia-only” migration story. Instead, researchers are finding: Mediterranean-linked haplogroups Middle Eastern markers North African lineages Genetic diversity that points to   multiple migrations   and long-term mixing This doesn’t erase the Bering land bridge. It just means it wasn’t the   only   story. And that matters. Because for decades, people w...
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Video 43 🌿 WHAT MORONI WAS REALLY TRYING TO DO

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  🌿   WHAT MORONI WAS REALLY TRYING TO DO Why His Final Words Matter More Than His Story Hello friends. This morning, as I walked quietly, Moroni stayed with me again. Not as a historical figure. Not as a man to analyze. Not as someone to argue about. But as a witness. And the thought that kept returning was simple: Moroni wasn’t trying to explain himself. He was trying to prepare us. 🕊️ 🌿 Moroni Wrote From the End — Not the Middle Moroni did not write while things were going well. He wrote after: the nation had collapsed the people had fallen the church had failed and the future looked uncertain He was not recording success. He was preserving   what survives failure . That matters, because advice given at the end of something carries a different weight than advice given at the beginning. When someone has seen everything break, they stop speaking casually. 🌿 What Moroni Did   Not   Leave Us Moroni did not leave us: a program a system a hierarchy a plan to re...
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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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