{"id":866,"date":"2013-09-18T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/?p=866"},"modified":"2013-09-18T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:55:54","slug":"what-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/2013\/09\/18\/what-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not surprised it&#8217;s been 10 days from the last time I found some time to write. \u00a0I have been writing to Roman and I have been finding other things more important.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I attended a discussion with the missionaries. \u00a0At one point a fellow asked the missionaries what they should be teaching. \u00a0 Elder Smith, he is from the San Francisco area, he turned right to <a title=\"Following the example of Christ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/bofm\/3-ne\/11.35.21-35?lang=eng#20\">3 Nephi Chapter 11<\/a>\u00a0He said the best thing to do is to follow the example of Christ. \u00a0About verse 21 Jesus starts teaching by giving the power to baptize, then he tells them the only way to be saved is to be baptized. \u00a0So when the Savior of the world show up and starts teaching; \u00a0 He starts out with &#8220;Be baptized.&#8221; \u00a0I think we all need to be so bold. \u00a0I am 43, I&#8217;ve spent most of my life studying the gospel and I am just now realizing that if I am going to follow the example of Jesus, I need start out with baptism as what to start teaching.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 664px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.ldscdn.org\/images\/media-library\/gospel-art\/book-of-mormon\/christ-teaching-nephites-39665-gallery.jpg?resize=664%2C278\" width=\"664\" height=\"278\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christ Visiting America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not surprised it&#8217;s been 10 days from the last time I found some time to write. \u00a0I have been writing to Roman and I have been finding other things more important. A couple of weeks ago I attended a discussion with the missionaries. \u00a0At one point a fellow asked the missionaries what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journal-entry","7":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. Gardner","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32Jie-dY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}