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Monday

• Commentary: Section 94 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 94:1–9
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 94:1–5.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 94:6–9.

Tuesday

• Scripture: D&C 94:10–17
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 94:10–12.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 94:13–17.
• Bio: Reynolds Cahoon, Susan Easton Black

Wednesday

• Commentary: Section 95 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 95:1–10
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 95:1–6.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 95:7–10.
• Quote: Why didn’t [the Lord] take the learned, trained theologians of that day—men trained in the ministry? For the same reason, brothers and sisters, that many times he cannot use some of us because we will not listen or we cannot listen.
  Now hear the words of the Lord: “But behold, verily I say unto you, that there are many who have been ordained among you, whom I have called, but few of them are chosen. They who are not chosen have sinned a very grievous sin, in that they are walking in darkness at noon-day” (D&C 95:5-6).
  And that is just exactly what many of us do, when the gospel is so light and so bright around us that a child could see. Many times we close our eyes and close our ears and will not see or listen.
  So, when it came time to fulfil all things, the Lord had to choose a simple farmer boy—Joseph Smith—one humble enough to listen, one obedient to God, one who would not rely on his own wisdom, but who would be willing to learn and to obey.
  Now, these God-chosen men that I have mentioned were not ignorant men. They were plain men and untrained, but Joseph Smith, I say, was a learned man, as were those who have followed him in that office. A learned man is one well informed, one who knows the truth, one who has great knowledge, one who has learned the truth by instruction and by study and by experience.
  Now, Joseph was instructed of God, and the greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become. So Joseph, who was instructed of God, became a very, very learned man. These men we sustained at this conference as prophets, seers, and revelators, because they have been instructed of God, can instruct us, if we will but listen and open our hearts.
  Theodore M. Burton, “With all the Getting Get Understanding”, April 1961 General Conference.

Thursday

• Scripture: D&C 95:11–17
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 95:11–17.
• Quote: Our Latter-day Saint temples are houses of fasting. When the Lord gave instructions for the building of the Kirtland Temple, he said: “And let the lower part of the inner court be dedicated unto me for your sacrament offerings, and for your preaching, and your fasting, and your praying, and the offering up of your most holy desires unto me, saith your Lord” (D&C 95:16).
  Listen to these words of the Lord to the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1832, and again repeated by the Prophet when he dedicated the Kirtland Temple in 1836: “Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God” (D&C 88:119; D&C 109:8).
  Again, turn to the late President Joseph F. Smith and eagerly read his words on fasting, prayer, and fast offerings, and the great blessing attendant upon obedience to this law in all of its ramifications: “It would be a simple matter for people to comply with this requirement to abstain from food and drink one day each month, and to dedicate what would be consumed during that day to the poor, and as much more as they pleased. The Lord has instituted this law; it is simple and perfect based on reason and intelligence, and would not only prove a solution to the question of providing for the poor, but it would result in good to those who observe the law. It would call attention to the sin of over-eating, place the body in subjection to the spirit, and so promote communion with the Holy Ghost, and insure a spiritual strength and power which the people of the nation so greatly need. (That was given over fifty years ago.)
  “As fasting should always be accompanied by prayer, this law would bring the people nearer to God, and divert their minds once a month at least, from the mad rush of worldly affairs and cause them to be brought into immediate contact with practical, pure and undefiled religion—to visit the fatherless and the widow, and keep themselves unspotted from the sins of the world. For religion is not in believing the commandments only, it is in doing them. I would to God that men would not only believe Jesus Christ and his teachings, but would broaden their belief to the extent of doing the things that are taught by them, and doing them in spirit.”
  Thorpe B. Isaacson, “The Blessing of Fasting,” April 1962 General Conference.
• Video: God's Temple in Kirtland Ohio Casey Paul Griffiths (D&C 94–97)

Friday

• Commentary: Section 96 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 96:1–9
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 96:1–5.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 96:6–9.

Saturday

• Commentary 12097: Section 97 Context, Steven C. Harper
• Scripture: D&C 97:1–14
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 97:1–2.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 97:3–6.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 97:7–9.

Sunday

• Scripture: D&C 97:15–28
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 97:10–17.
• Quote: In Doctrine and Covenants section 97, it reads, “And inasmuch as my people build a house unto me in the name of the Lord, and do not suffer any unclean thing to come into it, that it be not defiled, my glory shall rest upon it” (D&C 97:15, 17).Until 1891 the President of the Church signed each temple recommend to protect the sanctity of the temple. That responsibility was then delegated to bishops and stake presidents.
  It is our great desire that members of the Church will live to be worthy of a temple recommend. Please don’t see the temple as some distant and perhaps unachievable goal. Working with their bishop, most members can achieve all righteous requirements in a relatively short period of time if they have a determination to qualify and fully repent of transgressions. This includes being willing to forgive ourselves and not focus on our imperfections or sins as disqualifying us from ever entering a sacred temple.
  The Savior’s Atonement was accomplished for all of God’s children. His redeeming sacrifice satisfies the demands of justice for all those who truly repent.
  Quentin L. Cook, “See Yourself in the Temple,” April 2016 General Conference.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 97:18–21.
• Commentary: Casey Paul Griffiths, Doctrine and Covenants Minute, Doctrine and Covenants 97:22–28.
• Quote: If Babylon is the city of the world, Zion is the city of God. The Lord has said of Zion: “Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom” (D&C 105:5) and, “For this is Zion—the pure in heart” (D&C 97:21).
  Wherever we are, whatever city we may live in, we can build our own Zion by the principles of the celestial kingdom and ever seek to become the pure in heart. Zion is the beautiful, and the Lord holds it in His own hands. Our homes can be places which are a refuge and protection, as Zion is.
  We do not need to become as puppets in the hands of the culture of the place and time. We can be courageous and can walk in the Lord’s paths and follow His footsteps. And if we do, we will be called Zion, and we will be the people of the Lord.
  David R. Stone, “Zion in the Midst of Babylon,” April 2006 General Conference.