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Today marks 2 years since I first entered the MTC.  This blog was created to document my journey and experience as I set out to serve The Lord as His full-time missionary. That calling was extended, accepted, and executed. I am now continuing my education at Brigham Young University-Idaho. Here I have enrolled in a New Testament class. In this class we will be reading the latter half of the New Testament in the King James Version of the Holy Bible. I want to share the thoughts and things that I learn with those who still might be following this blog.

If anyone ever has questions or comments, please feel free to contact me! I would love to further teach or study these topics with anyone who is interested.

--AnneMarie Sloan

Assignment 1

Proper Authority and Ministering to the People

1. What did Paul do for the Corinthian saints because it hadn’t been done right the first time?
1. Paul came to the Corinthian people to preach to them but to his surprise they told him that they had already been baptized. As Paul inquired further, he learned that they were not baptized under the proper authority in the name of Jesus Christ. In order for these saints to be properly ordained worthy of eternal blessings, they stood in need of being baptized by one holding the proper priesthood authority of God. Thus Paul baptized these twelve saints in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 19:3-4).
2. How does this help answer the question many nonmembers have about the need of being baptized when they have already been baptized?
1. We understand that the proper authority of God is required in order for people to receive eternal blessings that they are privileged to. The importance of this sacred order comes from God’s eternal plan for us. His plan is what sets standards and guidelines to help us stay on the straight and narrow path that leads back to Him. This order is a tool to be taught and utilized to show our trust and commitment to Him. His elect will understand and obey (Acts 19:3-5).
3. In what way did Paul bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost?
1. After these saints were baptized, Paul laid his hands upon the Corinthian’s saint’s heads to bestow the Holy Ghost on them (Acts 19:6).
4. On what day of the week did the saints meet to break bread?
1. The saints break bread on Sunday (Acts 20:7-8). Now that Jesus Christ is resurrected, the saints understand that we worship a living God. When the Earth was first created in the beginning, God rested on the “last day” which was Saturday. But now that Jesus Christ fulfilled His mission here on Earth, we now remember and worship on the day that He was resurrected.
5. What evidence is there in John 20:1, 19 for why the Sabbath day was changed?
1. John 20:1 talked about Mary, the mother of Jesus, coming to His tomb after He is crucified and then buried in the tomb. The tomb is where Jesus’ body was laid by the saints after His soul left his mortal body for a time. This verse is when Mary finds the stone from in front of the tomb gone. This is when we read about Christ being resurrected, thus teaching us that the Sabbath day was changed from Saturday to Sunday.