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Preparing Hearts and Preserving the Way

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  Preparing Hearts and Preserving the Way Learning to Walk with the Peacemaker — Reflections on the Nemenhah Newsletter, November 5, 2026 What helps a person feel ready to enter a sacred gathering? Sometimes it begins with someone noticing them at the door. Someone explains an unfamiliar word, answers a question patiently, or offers a place to sit. That simple kindness can help a person who has arrived feeling uncertain take another step. Richard Forsyth begins this week’s Nemenhah newsletter with that very human concern. People come with different experiences. Some carry hurt. Those who already know the customs can forget how much a newcomer has yet to learn. The featured teaching by Philip R. “Cloudpiler” Landis, dated November 5, 2026, explores the Kohhaht and the Tiwehkthihmpt. Its full title is “The Kohhaht and the Tiwehkthihmpt: Living Sacrifice, Sacred Stewardship, and the Preservation of the Way.” Drawing principally on Second Ahyahpahlehksihluhm, he explains how these two ...

Saturday Morning Common Sense --- All Is Well in Zion—and the Market Closed Higher

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  Saturday Morning Common Sense All Is Well in Zion—and the Market Closed Higher Listen to the NEW Song:    All is Well and the Market Closed Higher We are waiting for Babylon to fall. We just hope it waits until after retirement. A Little Common Sense for Latter-day Saints   We Latter-day Saints know that Babylon is going to fall. We have read it in Isaiah, Revelation, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants. We are prepared for it. We would simply prefer that it happen after our retirement accounts finish growing. Now, I am not pointing fingers. I have owned investments. I appreciate interest as much as the next fellow. I am not recommending that everybody cash out the pension and purchase a herd of goats before lunch. But I do have a little question: What exactly is Babylon? Is it corporations? Stocks? Bonds? Banks? Mortgages? Not necessarily. A stock is a share in a business. A bond is an agreement to repay borrowed money. A corporation can manufacture...

ðŸŠķ If I Could Speak at My Own Funeral

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  ðŸŠķ If I Could Speak at My Own Funeral If I could stand for a moment and say one last thing… I think it would be simple. Not dramatic. Not mysterious. Not a defense of anything I believed. Just this: Stay close to Jesus. That would be first. And last. And maybe enough. Because after all the studying… all the wrestling… all the questions… all the things I chased and things I laid down… that is what remained. Christ. Not religion as performance. Not arguments. Not being right. Him. ðŸŒŋ Don’t Remember Me for My Opinions Don’t remember me for what I questioned. Or what I challenged. Or what I got wrong. I got some things wrong. I softened on things. I changed. I repented. Thank God. If you remember me… remember a man trying, however imperfectly, to keep turning back toward the Savior. That was the whole journey. Not arriving. Returning. Again and again. 🕊️ If You Want to Honor Me… Love each other. Forgive quicker. Hold grudges shorter. Laugh more. Eat together. Pray simply. Help the l...

Lesson 20 Faith While Waiting Trusting the Peacemaker Before the Promise Is Fulfilled Book of Sahnhehmpeht

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  ðŸŒŋ Journey Through the Nemenhah Sacred Records 📖 Book of Sahnhehmpeht Lesson 20 Faith While Waiting Trusting the Peacemaker Before the Promise Is Fulfilled Listen to the NEW Narration:     Faith While Waiting 📖 Let's Read the Record Together This week continue reading The Book of Sahnhehmpeht . The people had searched the sacred records. They knew the promises. But they still had to wait. No sign had yet appeared. No heavenly announcement had yet come. As you read, ask yourself one question: "How do I remain faithful when God's promises seem delayed?" I believe Sahnhehmpeht gives one of the most beautiful answers in all the Sacred Records. ðŸŒŋ What Happened? The faithful did not stop believing simply because they had to wait. They continued praying. They continued teaching their children. They continued gathering together. They continued trusting the promises the Lord had already given. Around them, others questioned. Some doubted. Some mo...

ðŸŠķ THE DAUGHTER IN THE TEMPLE --- A Companion Reflection to The Endowment as a Walk

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ðŸŠķ THE DAUGHTER IN THE TEMPLE A Companion Reflection to   The Endowment as a Walk There is another thought that quietly sits beside the idea that endowment is a walk. And I do not hear it spoken often. But I feel it. What if part of what sacred patterns once preserved… was the holy place of women? Not at the margins. At the center. ðŸŒŋ Something Ancient As I have pondered older covenant patterns, one thing keeps surfacing: Mothers were not ornamental. They were foundational. Not spectators. Stewards. Not symbolic only. Bearers of wisdom. There is something ancient there. Something Eden-like. Something Zion-like. ❤️ The Sacred Feminine Was Never Missing Perhaps forgotten in places. But not missing. Because wherever nurture, discernment, mercy, life-giving stewardship, and holy remembering are honored… something of heaven is present. I have wondered: What if part of endowment includes learning to receive those divine attributes, not merely admire them? That is bigger than roles. That ...

What Is All This Learning Preparing Us to Do?

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  What Is All This Learning Preparing Us to Do? Learning to Walk with the Peacemaker — Reflections on the Nemenhah Newsletter I enjoy learning about sacred records. There is always another passage to consider, another connection to make, and another question to bring before the Lord. But this week’s Nemenhah newsletter brought me back to a question that reaches beyond my study table: What am I becoming because of what I am learning? The featured article, “The Road from Creation to Responsibility,” was written by Philip R. “Cloudpiler” Landis and dated October 29, 2026. Drawing on the first five chapters of the Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn, the Book of the High Place, Cloudpiler considers the education of Ahtahn and Ayayfah and the responsibilities that accompany spiritual growth. His discussion helped me think about how receiving light should change the way I live with other people. Learning That Reaches Our Relationships Cloudpiler describes the Four Pillars as Knowledge, Sacrifice, Virtue, an...

Lesson 19 Searching the Scriptures Preparing for the Coming of the Peacemaker

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  ðŸŒŋ Journey Through the Nemenhah Sacred Records 📖 Book of Sahnhehmpeht Lesson 19 Searching the Scriptures Preparing for the Coming of the Peacemaker Listen to the NEW Narration:     The Coming of the Savior 📖 Let's Read the Record Together This week continue reading The Book of Sahnhehmpeht . The promised sign is drawing near. Questions begin to spread among the people. How will the Anointed One come? What have the prophets already taught? Where can the answers be found? As you read, ask yourself one question: "When I have questions about the Lord, where do I turn first?" I think Sahnhehmpeht gives us a beautiful answer. ðŸŒŋ What Happened? As anticipation grows, the faithful do not give themselves over to fear or endless speculation. Instead... they search the sacred records. They remember the words of earlier prophets. They compare testimony with testimony. They gather together to strengthen one another's faith. The coming of the Peacemaker...