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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 9:32:55 GMT -6
2005 AD
01/25 WEEK 4, DAY 4 – DAY 3 OF THE WEEK-TUESDAY
[To be transferred ...]
[into Journal 19]
Hymns of the Restoration
Hymn 110
Joy to the World
Hymn 254
Take Time to be Holy
Welcome-
Announcements.
-Priesthood classes.
-Facilities meeting
-5 baptisms last month- pass out certificates (3)
* Dustin
* Courtney
* Jamie
Everyone claps, woman takes photo
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-Men’s retreat in Lansing
-Get your poinsettas or they’ll go to “poinsetta heaven”
Call to worship
Baby blessing
Mormon 1:65
Hymns of the Restoration
Hymn 94. We’ve story to Tell
Prayer.
III Nephi 9
Consecrate their gain...substance unto the Lord...
Prayer.
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Time for tithes. I forgot to bring money.
Ordinance of baby blessing.
Name: Skylar Halley Stokes
Parents: Eric and Erica Stokes
Blessing and Prayer.
Speaker: Jay Havener
* We believe that there are certain requirements for participation at the Lord’s Supper:
Baptism
Confirmation
This is not out of spite.
Scriptures show that Jesus prepared his supper for those
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close to him.
You must partake of it worthily.
That doesn’t mean don’t take it if you have differences with your neighbor.
DC 119-take it at regular intervals
No member is justified in not partaking because of ill feeling toward other members. It is our Christian duty to eliminate those ill feelings
* We are called this day by the shepherd into his sheep fold.
Music Ministry (guitar)
“Gentle Shepherd”
I am not baptized or confirmed so I don’t take communion.
They’ll be serving bread to their new Members first.
Blessing of Emblems.
-Blessing of Bread.
Serving of Bread to new Members
Priests (By Priests I mean Priesthood Authorized by the Covenants and Commandments of the Lord to serve the Sacrament B.L.S.-08-12-2019 AD 7:12:37 AM) serve Bread to Members in Congregation
as we sing Hymns of the Restoration
Hymn 317
The Savior’s Knocking At Your Door
-Blessing of Wine
Serving of Wine to Priests1 Serving of Wine to new Members.
Priests1 serve Wine to Members in Congregation as Psalms is read from.
Music Ministry (guitar) “Dear Lord, Forgive”
Speaker: Jay Havener
I Peter 3
...reason for the hope that is in you
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* If there is anything the Lord’s Supper teaches us, it’s love .
* Our Church began as a religion of experience. It will only grow as long as it continues to be a religion of experience..
* Our Church is not built on the Three Books. It is built on revelation.
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* God’s always there
-to love us
-to encourage us
-to give us the strength we need.
* in Revelation it says that the heavens were quiet for the space of about 1/2 an hour.
* He believes, 2005 will be a year of tremendous
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* spiritual growth because of that verse and God’s timetable.
* We need to go back and find that old zeal.
* We need to be on fire to build up the kingdom of God and we have so many tools to do that.
* We have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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-the testimony of our Members.
-the testimony of answered prayer.
* If we haven’t been coming on Wednesday nights make 2005 a year to come on Wednesday nights.
* We’re blessed with a strong priesthood.
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Some people ask why our priesthood doesn’t stay home. It’s because
other congregations aren’t blessed. We have an Aaronic priesthood, who teach, and we have a Melchizedec priesthood, the spiritual priesthood.
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* The shepherd needs to smell like the sheep-to be among them. The priesthood is on duty 24 hours a day.
* He prays that we’ll be a little more diligent
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in 2005.
-to watch TV less.
-to open Scriptures more.
-to look around and help more.
-to realize that God has given us each talents and abilities that can be used.
* His prayer for the year is that we become the people God
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wants us to become.
* We have something great and should not be afraid to share it.
* "God bless us as we endeavor to make 2005 the year of our Lord."
Hymns of the Restoration
Hymn 241
In the Light
Prayer.
Hymns of the Restoration
Hymn 361
My Jesus, I Love Thee
We exit.
12:55 pm.
We are on our way home.
Mark is driving.
1:32 p.m.
I am in Grandma's car. Mark is at work (Bob Evans). I am going to get a take-out at Taco Bell.
2:07p.m.
I am home.
[TO BE COPIED INTO JOURNAL 19]
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1By Priests I meant the Priesthood.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 9:41:09 GMT -6
04/03- LORD'S DAY-WEEK 14, DAY 2
I miss a sermon at a church service that would have been detrimental to my well-being. Mark takes me to a nudist colony, then a modeling appointment, where he poses nude, then to the Kirtland temple, which I profane because of my uncleanness the night before I enter it. Pope John Paul II dies. $2.15/gallon called a high gas price by me, because I had known much cheaper. I get back into the Star Wars Humorous Versions again, etc.
5:28 p.m.
AFTER work, Mark is taking me to the Kirtland Temple.
I am writing in a mini yellow legal pad, the same one I recorded a church service in.
There is a box elder crawling around on my bedroom floor.
IN ORDER: NUMBERS 10
I read about six chapters of Numbers today.
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Grandma drove me to church today, but I was so tired I just sat in the car the whole time. I don't know why.
Grandma didn't like the sermon because they said that only the true Church has authority to preach2, which is true according to the Doctrine and Covenants.
This note pad was just on the floor and the box elder crawled on it.
I've been sleeping so much lately.
5:51 p.m.
I just took out the trash.
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The weather is warm and there is no snow.
Still, I'll take my light coat just in case.
I'm all packed and ready to go.
I haven't played Adventure Quest in a long time. That's good.
5:57 p.m.
There's the box elder again. Now its crawling on my blue notebook.
Now it's not.
Now it is.
Now it's not.
Now it is.
Now it's not.
Now it's on the leg of my white chair.
Now its just under the back of my white chair.
6:03p.m.
It's rubbing it's front feelers together. Now it's crawling down. Hind feelers. Crawling across side of chair. Down same leg it came up. Now it's back on the floor.
It's back on my blue notebook again.
Back on floor.
*sigh*
I can't wait to go to Kirtland.
6:08 p.m.
Grandma will give me money for food, for the trip
7:34 p.m.
IN ORDER: NUMBERS 18
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7:47p.m.
I really need to improve my diet. .
At 9 Destiny and Dad are coming over to play Pinochle.
8:12
I just ate a bowl of Shredded Wheat.
8:34 p.m.
Just watched half of "The Simpsons"
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10:23p.m.
Grandma and I just won Pinochle
11:01p.m.
Mark just called. We might be going to Kirtland for two days!
I’m all packed!
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2That's true, but they are allowed to give Gospel orations or perform Gospel Ministry promised to believers in the Tesimony of Mark in the KJ and IV Bibles (heal, save, deliver, perform miracles, raise the dead, prophesy, etc....) that can win souls, both men and women, as I do, being a member. But ordination is required to Preach the Gospel. However, God raises up His prophets and Gospel orators who are not Restoration worldwide, both inside and outside of the Church.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 9:43:36 GMT -6
04/04- WEEK 14, DAY 3-MONDAY WE left after midnight last night and stayed at a Best Western in Lansing. This morning we ate a good breakfast there (scrambled eggs, hash browns, bacon, orange juice, doughnuts) and swam in the pool. If Mark didn’t have a modeling appointment we would be on our way to Kirtland right now. As it is, we’re going to Turtle Lake for about four hours.
Right now, we are in Battle Creek, or around
there.
It is 11:30 a.m.
Saturday or early Sunday Pope John Paul II died.
We are getting gas.
Now we’re back on the road.
2:16 p.m.
We arrived at Turtle Lake, a nudist camp, around 12. We swam, played ping-pong, and pool, walked to the beach, and met Jon-Marc.
Now we’re leaving..
I am sitting in the car waiting for Mark to come out of the office. Before we came to Turtle Lake we stopped at a gas station so Mark could ask. directions. I picked up a NIV New Testament.
3:32p.m.
IN ORDER: NUMBERS 22
3:55p.m.
We’re in Ann Arbor. Mark needs to go to Kinko’s to deliver a message
Something about buying Brian’s house.
Last night we went through East Lansing, and right by the state capital.
3:59p.m.
We’re at Kinko’s.
4:16 p.m.
Leaving Kinko’s. Mark faxed something.
5:25p.m.
At Henry Ford University for Mark’s modeling appointment.
We went to Border’s . I got the Episode III Storybook, which I just read, and the junior novelization of Episode III.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 9:59:47 GMT -6
04/05 WEEK 14, DAY 4-TUESDAY 4:31a.m. We are staying at a hotel in Detroit. It was fun watching all those art students draw Mark nude. (But in reality it was terrible and I shouldn't have let my feet wander in those places) It was also nice talking with them and their teacher. We were going to go see Robots at the Star theatre but it wasn’t going to start ‘til about 10:30 p.m. So we ate dinner at T.G.I. Friday’s. (I’ve never eaten there before yesterday) Then we decided we’d go to the movies some other time. We never ate lunch yesterday. I’m on pg. 47 of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith by Patricia C. Wrede. I just read some before and during the art class. (PAGE 26) (PAGE +55+) The covers came off my Inspired Version. 5:40a.m. I’m still up. I just spent a long time comparing some of Matthew 1 in the Inspired Version with Matthew 1 in the New International Version. They [The NIV] change almost every name! 311:00 a.m. We left the motel about an hour ago. I am watching for the Lord. I know that he will, maybe even today, come suddenly to his temple. I know somewhat of the great things that can happen because of what has happened already in Scripture. 11:57 a.m. We’re south of Detroit, just south of the Ohio border. (PAGE 28)(PAGE +57+) 12:22p.m. We are at a gas station. Gas prices are sky-high! $2.15 a gallon! And elsewhere7 it’s $2.23, 8 cents a gallon more! [compared to 4.00 /gallon in 2008, 2011,etc. that's rather cheap!] 4We’re still in Michigan. We’re getting back on the expressway. 12:32p.m. We’re on the Ohio Turnpike. 1:06 p.m. I’ve been reading Matthew. 1:35 p.m. I read the account of the widespread destruction and judgment on this side of the earth (PAGE 29) (PAGE +58+) just before Christ came to America to Mark. We’re now getting off the Ohio Turnpike, going on to I-90. Toll: $2.85. 2:04 p.m. We’re in Cleveland! The heart of Rock ‘n Roll! 3:10 [p.m.]. I had a wonderful experience at the Kirtland Temple! I (PAGE 30) (PAGE +59+) was in the lower court of the temple. When asked if I had any questions, I made the comment that its said that Joseph Smith saw Jesus here. The tour guide told me that the experience was recorded in Joseph Smith’s personal journal and nowhere else 5 and she happened to have a copy of his journal. She asked me if I’d <ever> read the account and (PAGE 31) (PAGE +60+) I said, no She opened the book to the page. An arrow pointed to where the account started, and I read aloud the whole passage. Not only did Joseph see Jesus, but Moses, Elias, and Elijah also. The keys they held were committed to him. The Vision was written as follows: 1 The veil was taken from our minds, and the eyes of our understanding were opened. 2 We saw the Lord standing upon the breastwork of the pulpit, before us; and under his feet was a paved work of pure cgold, in color like amber. 3 His eyes were as a flame of fire; the hair of his head was white like the pure snow; his countenance shone above the brightness of the sun; and his voice was as the sound of the rushing of great waters, even the voice of Jehovah, saying: 4 I am the first and the last; I am he who liveth, I am he who was slain; I am your advocate with the Father. 5 Behold, your sins are forgiven you; you are clean before me; therefore, lift up your heads and rejoice. 6 Let the hearts of your brethren rejoice, and let the hearts of all my people rejoice, who have, with their might, built this house to my name. 7 For behold, I have accepted this house, and my name shall be here; and I will manifest myself to my people in mercy in this house. 8 Yea, I will appear unto my servants, and speak unto them with mine own voice, if my people will keep my commandments, and do not bpollute this holy house. 9 Yea the hearts of thousands and tens of thousands shall greatly rejoice in consequence of the blessings which shall be poured out, and the endowment with which my servants have already been endowed, and shall hereafter be endowed, in this house. 10 And the fame of this house shall spread to foreign lands; and this is the beginning of the blessing which shall be poured out upon the heads of my people. Even so. Amen. 11 After this vision closed, the heavens were again bopened unto us; and Moses appeared before us, and committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north. 12 After this, Elias appeared, and committed the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham, saying that in us and our seed all generations after us should be blessed. 13 After this vision had closed, another great and glorious vision burst upon us; for Elijah the prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting death, stood before us, and said: 14 Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi—testifying that he [Elijah] should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord come— 15 To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse— 16 Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands; and by this ye may know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors. Here is a picture of the Kirtland Temple but you'd have to visit it yourself to be able to do it any justice: We went to a grocery store, where I spent money, dropped the groceries off at Mark’s, and now I’m home. ___________________________________________________________________________________- 3The names are not changed, just different and equally valid translations of the same names 4(It’s amazing that I once saw 2.15 as sky high. Apparently, I was used to much cheaper gas prices than that even. I like John Paul II, though some in the Not My Pope Movement opposing Pope Francis considered John Paul II one of the anti-popes. He was in Opus Dei (a socialist Secret Combination) and supported globalism, and there was the rumored selling of cyanide gas to the Nazi’s thing, but these could be chalked up to his ignorance, including the gas. He might not have known what the Nazis were using the cyanide gas for. I do know or think that Pope John Paul II was a very spiritual man and I forgot his last words on his deathbed but I remember they indicated that he had made his peace with God. Plus he was good friends with Ronald Reagan, whose rumored involvement in the Bohemian Grove was either fictitious or perhaps he went because he was invited but was disgusted by the proceedings there. I know, not just believe, that before Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan was our most recent truly conservative and truly Believing President of these United States of America, and this by reading from his Diary and observing the things he did as Acting President, or at least the record of it. He was president when I was born in 1983.-B.L.S.) 5 This is not true. Other sources also include LDS Doctrine and Covenants, the Joseph Smith Papers and many other sources.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 10:32:26 GMT -6
SUMMER OF THIS YEAR, AFTER A VISIT TO THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE AND ALSO TO THE KIRTLAND RESTORATION BRANCH IN KIRTLAND, OHIO (PUT UNDER AUGUST) Extracts from an e-mail I sent to Jason Webster after returning to Michigan from my second trip to the Kirtland Temple.Good evening Jason, it's Brent.....But in October of 1999, I, in a rudimentary way that I guess started it all, found Jesus. Of course I wasn’t saved yet. I’m still not. Only he who endures to the end is saved. But at least I was calling myself that popular buzzword Christian. And trying to change my life. I didn’t even know who Joseph Smith was and I really was clueless about the endowed priesthood which has NOTHING to do with Mormon temple endowment. In about 2000, a year before my mother died and two years before I graduated high school, my uncle (dad’s brother) Mark, whom I really didn’t know at the time, introduced me to the Fullness of the Gospel. […..][Sa]tan used my dad to turn me away from my uncle and caused me to reject the things I had only half believed in. In 2001 (I believe) I joined what was then known as Greater Zion Hill Bible Church. Then it was called just Zion Hill Bible Church, then, in what I feel was a rigged election , the name was changed to the R.O.C. It was the church I was dunked in, which has absolutely no significance whatsoever. The church was nondenominatioal, which is oxymoronic if you think about it. There was only one good thing that came out of becoming a member of this wicked church (no it wasn’t a cult) and that was Tameeka. (In the Zion Hill Bible Church I met a woman, a Prophetess, named Tameeka Newell.) I would always go to see her in the back row of pews after service and she’d be glad to see me and give me a hug. She’d warn me to praise God, not her. She was quick to admonish and to prophesy. This was a woman of God. She testified to me when we met. Told me how she had sinned and how[…..]......….. she had struggled with the demons that resulted from her sinning. Now here is the thing I cannot get out of my head, and I have been leading up to, and matters most in my testimony. She prophesied to me once that I would be part of a high priesthood. 6 I have wondered if that means I will be endowed when Jesus endows his priesthood to go out into the world during the time of Zion. She is one of those people that don’ t believe in Joseph Smith as a true prophet but if it was revealed to her that he was (which by faith I think it has by now.) I believe that if she were to be told of the Restored Gospel now she would accept it completely. She is a true servant of God who left the so-called Zion Hill church with no explanation as to why she left. Maybe she discerned the little hints of false doctrine in Pastor Martin’s profanity (minor like da-- and he--) laced sermons. Maybe she became a believer in the true church. Well, she was a prophetess, and gave me by the Spirit of God prophetic messages and scripture for me to read. She also had the gift of tongues but she only did it once or twice. Everyone else that did it went on and on for no one‘s benefit, there being no interpreter. (I did not understand the concept of having a personal prayer language back then). ( P A G E +67+ ) In 2001 (I believe) I […..] I feel I am growing spiritually but I lack much, including the most important requirement of attaining Celestial glory; Baptism by water for the remission of sins by true authority.
Before I go on I want to testify to you as you have testified to Mark. I read your testimony; the three dreams you had. In 2002 I saw a sermon by Charles Stanley about obedience to God. I walked around a grocery store (as Maggie Savoie ministered to the children), around and around, preaching the result of three days or so of following God completely. 7, 8(At that police station, while I was in a holding cell, I heard a man reading my original 4th Diary I kept in my Freshman year (now burned), which I had brought with me with a valentine from my high school classmates and some other few things I had carried to a grocery store with me, and someone was reading about what I thought of my long time crush Maggie, to Maggie, who had come to visit me at the police station, and as he read me describing her as 'cute,' she laughed in girlish delight. Then the slat opened on the cell door and Maggie's hair, the back of her head was seen, and Maggie clucked her tongue twice and hummed seductively, then the slat closed. Maggie herself had been called into the police station and that she had showed her hair to me was after a cop had been reading her a diary entry I had written about her calling her cute. This is what I referred to when I told Jason Webster in the email I sent to him in 2005 when I said someone appeared at the police station that strengthened my faith, and I also referred to this in my email. I also believed delusionally because of satan that one day soon I would have a total recollection of my past with Maggie 9 that was then blocked from my memory. There is a lot of true history in the email, , and I also didn’t have it half so bad as I made it sound at that Adult Foster Care Home. -B.L.S. 08-12-019 10:41:37 AM CST-2 minor revisions at 10:42 AM) (1. My delusions are not true. 2. Some of the above facts about reality may have been delusional. 3. None of that matters now because Maggie is a married woman.) Dad had kicked me out of his house. I ended up moving into an AFC home where they made me clean the bathroom every day, [some of] the food was disgusting, and people went around stealing things from everyone. I had to spend an entire year in bondage. I wanted out, and I worked for it. I also prayed for it and asked my sister, who had just become a Christian, but not a believer in the true church, to pray. I believe it was her fervent prayers, for she prays mightily, that got me out of that awful place. My Grandpa, who was part of the priesthood of what is now called Community of Christ (I went to that church a lot growing up, and never once thought of it as different from any other church) died in August of 2003. My sister (half[-] sister actually-my dad remarried a few years after he divorced my biological mother and had my sister),once experime[nt]ing with Wicca, made friends who were Believers who invited her to Youth Group at her church. She started going, but did not become a Believer until she prayed for confirmation that it was all true. One night she had a dream where she saw Grandpa and he talked with her. When she woke up she forgot most of what he said but in that same day began to give her life to Jesus. I know not whether she is ( PAGE +68+) doing 100% of what she knows to do. That is for God to judge. But I know she is a beautiful person inside. As I mentioned before, I had rejected the fullness of the Gospel. I thought it was cultish. In 2004 thanks largely to my half-sister‘s prayers and to God I moved to Grandma‘s. Since I was now 20 I was out of my dad’s jurisdiction. Mark tried to get me to read a book he wrote, containing his testimony, about Zion called The Continual Creation Story of the Author Over the phone I told him I would read the book. So I started reading it, thinking it would be full of lies. I found some things I didn‘t agree with, but I kept on reading. As I read Mark talked to me and answered questions and wrote me letters, but those letters were filled with a heresey called Christian Naturism, or Nudism, which he referred to as "The truth of the body". I gradually came to the faith, But I was still going to the R.O.C.
I left on this wise:
The Pastor wanted power and money, envisioning owning a private jet plane.
Pastor Martin divided the members into male and female clubs .
The men were called Sons of Thunder.
The women, Daughters of Zion.
Attendance was required.
Each member was required to pay 10.00 in dues per month , in addition to tithes and offering.
That was the last straw. The pastor was filthy rich. He could afford $400-a seat skybox Pistons tickets at the Palace.10 One for each Sons of Thunder member.
In the van the Deacons were discussing how much fun they had at a casino.
Earlier I said it‘s not a cult, but maybe I got out just in time!
Finally, the end, but just the beginning...
Mark took me to the Oakwood Restoration branch of Jesus Christ and I stopped going to the R.O.C.
Twice Mark took me to the Kirtland Temple
and once to the Kirtland Restoration Group, where I met you.
In closing, I ask for you to pray that I may be baptized properly by true authority. I feel I am ready to repent and enter the waters of baptism.
I wish to better be able to do the will of my Father in heaven, to put aside the old man and put on the new through Christ Jesus.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo Jones V
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6 She said "higher priesthood", not high priesthood.
7 On one of those days of obedience, I was about to read the book ‘3 From Galilee’ when God told me( or I told myself, one of the two) that I had the choice between doing that or watching The Empire Strikes Back, which I owned also at the time, and I chose ESB and once again started to, from that point on, become enamoured with Star Wars again and off again then on, then on again, etc., until I finally accepted my destiny,. It was God that gave me the revelation ‘You have a choice.’ The very first revelation I ever remember receiving is after the public schools, around pre-k to kindergarten to second grade, lied to me when I was a child and told me the sun was a star, He told me back then as a child ‘Your heart is a star.’ I still believe it.-B.L.S. 8/12/19 9:59:24 AM)
8 I made a mistake by attempting to preach without the power of God behind it. I was apprehended by the police. At the station I saw someone who strengthened my faith but that ties in to my school days and my future, which I mentioned earlier. (This was Maggie)
9 This paragraph refers to my Maggie total recall beliefs.
10 A sports/concert venue called the Palace of Auburn Hills
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 11:39:05 GMT -6
UNDATED, (PUT UNDER MAY)
Selection From my 19th Journal:
Religious statement
11:42p.m.
No matter how much writing I do I can only provide slices of the complete story of my life.
Could someone get to know me well just from reading all my journals? No. Reason tells me no.
[Next paragraph left out, not important and interrupts flow.]
Same with war correspondence., which I just watched a special about (actually I watched the end of it (that was a detail I could have left out- there are many small details in my life that sometimes I include and sometimes I don’t.)) No matter how much live coverage there is, it is impossible for man to get a complete picture of what war is.
But with God all things are possible.
Imagine, just try to imagine, seeing it all at once as God sees it. Knowing it. All of history, and everything else. Not only the events, not only the people, the places, and individual battles, but the true thoughts and intentions of every person’s heart and every other detail both seen and unseen; both temporal and spiritual. Now, imagine this for each of the millions of earths all at once. You can’t. It’s unfathomable! And that’s only one aspect of God! And someday He will share it with us! That is wonderful!
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 11:43:09 GMT -6
Location: Joy and her husband's house, Oak Grove MO.
08/18- WEEK 34, DAY 6-THURSDAY
I had a wonderful dream! It followed my ups and downs-sometimes I would disobey God, sometimes I would obey Him. I worked at Taco Bell. In the beginning of the dream I had a message to give to people from the Lord and I feared to bring it. The more I followed God's commands, the more I was blessed. Near the end of the dream, my uncle Mark, me and some others saw Jesus. Radiant light shone from him. I asked if he would touch me. He did. When he did, I felt warm burning all over and Jesus said, Thy sins be forgiven thee. Then He told us all to tap the table ten times. We all did, though Mark waited a while, then tapped it an eleventh time.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 23, 2021 11:44:18 GMT -6
DATE UNKNOWN, BEFORE I MOVED TO MISSOURI THE FIRST TIME: UNDATED, BEFORE OCTOBER (PUT UNDER SEPTEMBER)
We were in a building, waiting, apparently for something big to happen in Zion. I saw Jesus again and asked if he would touch me again. He did. Again the burning. We each received from the Lord a bag of some sort of food. I was running out. I saw a man who was also nearly out so I gave him mine. I heard extra food drop into my bag. There was a lot more to this dream, but the record of it is lost.
While I was in Michigan I had several other Jesus dreams and in each one (or most) I asked Jesus to touch me and He did.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:40:13 GMT -6
2006
05/14- WEEK 20, DAY 1-SABAOTH-SUNDAY-LORD’S DAY
After first baptism and first confirmation:
Dream: I was running thru the woods following an orange glow that I knew to be the Holy Ghost. I saw Jesus descending and when He had touched down I ran around Him in circles trying to reach Him, but couldn't. I cried out to Him in anguish,
"Jesus!
Jesus!"
Then I was able to reach Him. He put His hands on my shoulders and told me He told me He loved me and said something else, which I do not remember. When I woke up I felt a big bead of sweat on my brow as if it had been blood.
(Joy told me the interpretation that what Jesus said to me was that there were some things that I had to change about my life.-B.L.S. 10/17/2018)
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:41:38 GMT -6
12/26- TUESDAY
O my soul!
I cry out to Thee O Lord for Thou art my righteousness!
Thou art my Shield, my Rock and my Deliverer!
In Thee do I trust!
Thank You O Lord for having mercy on me!
Help me not to talk negatively of others, O Lord!
Help me to wholly devote my writings and expressions to thee.
In Jesus’ Name I pray, Amen.
This is the first day of writing in the more diary part of my record, even my journal outside of my record, which is dedicated to Thee.
Consecrate it to Thy purposes, in Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
In this part of my record I am permitted to write a more part of my feelings, as well as some of the more day-to-day events of life, but nothing that does not give You the glory. In every event I must ask myself, Is it of kingdom building value? If the answer is, Yes, than it can go in here.
I love my cousin Nephi. He is so much like his father. I love them both. I also love Nephis' fathers' second born, Nathaniel and his last-born son Noah. Each of these three boys, whom I love dearly, share characteristics with me, which are unique. Nathaniel has a sense of humor like mine, Nephi shows a deep spiritual side, which I have seen in all three of them, and Noah reminds me of what I was like when I was his age. I love Joy, my guardian (I was and am still my own guardian at that time and now. I was mistaken. –B.L.S. 10/16/2018) and helper because she always wants what is best for me and my life is the better for it. She is in touch with her Savior, Lord. I love Joy's husband also. He has confirmed me a member of Christ’s body along with Howard Hubert Smith (now with the Lord- B.L.S. 10/16/2018). Joy's husband has also administered to me on several occasions and I have been healed by God through him from time to time. Joy's husband has a quietness in his spirit I admire and a gentle and meek heart. Once God used him to speak to our congregation at Israel’s Gathering, comforting us concerning the loss of certain members. I rejoice when I hear his son, Nephi's father, praying for the ministering of angels during prayer and testimony services. Nephi's father loves his family. He has a sense of humor that keeps him mirthful. He is slow to wrath. I love him. The other day when I was walking to the park he rode by on his bicycle on his way home from work and he smiled at me cheerfully and said smilingly,” It’s Brent!” My joy was full! Before I knew who it was that was coming , and before he said that, I had said to myself, ‘I love that man!’ After he rode by I said to myself, ‘I loved him before I even knew who he was!’
Finally, I love my dear aunt, one of my father’s two sisters. I have, since my childhood.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:43:17 GMT -6
12/27- WEEK 52, DAY 4-WEDNEDSAY
To prepare me for the time when we will not have cars anymore, I have been taking a lot of long walks lately. Today it was a little more than eight miles. Before that it was about five miles. I have been taking these walks with my cousin Nathaniel.
Not too long after I first got to the land of Zion in the tenth month Anno Domini two thousand and five a miracle happened while my three cousins and I were on a walk: Nathaniel and Nephi got hit by a car and received no real injuries, save that Nephi got a scratched finger. I believe angels were protecting us.
Tonight we are going to prayer and testimony service at Israel’s Gathering.
On the thirty and first day of this month, Alexis, Storm, and Kyra will be baptized at our church. On the twenty and first day of the first month Anno Domini two thousand seven, there will be a worship service sponsored by the Joint Conference of Restoration Branches entitled, The Great And Marvelous Work: Testimonies From The Field. Brother Gary will be there. On the twenty and third and the twenty and fourth days of the second month Anno Domini two thousand and seven will be the Winter Gathering. And on April fourth through the eighth two thousand and seven, the third annual Joint Conference of Restoration Branches will take place, event I am looking forward to most of all, where the Voice of the People will be heard once again. Something exciting is happening with the church and I want to be a part of it.
Praise be to the Lion of Judah, the King of Heaven, whose name is above all other names, whose years never fail, even Jesus Christ, the Eternal God!
Bless His holy name forever!
Lord my love for You knows no bounds!
But my sins separate me from You!
O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death!
How can I be counted worthy enough to sing Your praises?
It is because of Your mercy, O Lord.
Thank You, Lord for your mercy toward me all the days of my life.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Lord, you have warned me that satan desires to destroy me, both body and soul.
Rebuke the devourer for my sake, Lord.
Stand by me in this evil day.
Be thou my Shield.
Help me to withstand the temptations of the flesh!
Keep the vision You gave me etched within my memory!
I am calling out to Thee Jesus!
Help me, O Lord!
Protect and hide me under Your wings as a mother hen.
In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Lord, bless us all exceedingly and abundantly at prayer and testimony service tonight, above and beyond what we could hope or expect.
I pray this in Your Son’s most Holy and Precious name, even Jesus the Christ, Amen.
Now I shall continue to read the prophet Jeremiah.
It is later. The Lord answered my prayer. Hubert and Barbara Smith, who had been a long time absent, were there. There was life in the prayers of each one who prayed. Brother David asked to join our congregation, and we welcomed him.
Dear Lord, show young Christopher the value of his life, and persuade him not to take it! Bring him to your Gospel and help him to be baptized into Thy body. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
On the radio program, ‘Back To The Bible’, I learned that we need to constantly seek for new challenges from the story of Caleb, even in his old age, asking for his inheritance among the Anakim, the sons of Anak, which were giants that had not been driven out of the promised land. I also learned to always be generous from the story of Barzillai the Gileadite in Second Samuel, seventeenth chapter, twenty and seventh thru twenty and ninth verses.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:45:04 GMT -6
2007
UNDATED, AD 2007 (PUT UNDER JANUARY)
My two dreams/experiences:
Between December 16, 2006 and January 1, 2007 I dreamt a very vivid dream where I looked into my cousin's room as I was in my bed and saw two flaming personages standing there near his bed.
As I saw them I cast some coins, which I understand to mean I cast my mites, or my whole living, before the Lord. I believe it was the Father and the Son, for I found Scriptural confirmation of this the next day at church in two places.
On February 1, 2007 I had a dream that I went to the door to the house that I was in in my dream and shouted "Hallelujah!" Suddenly the Holy Spirit appeared in the form of a large, gigantic dove, and I could feel its power!
How great and merciful is the Lord our God!
Glory and honor be to His name forever!
Blessed be the Lord!
He has redeemed my soul from hell, hath suffered and died for my sins, hath justified me by His Spirit and sanctified me through his blood.
He has transformed my life completely.
He can do the same for you if you surrender your will to his.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:48:13 GMT -6
2009 07/01- WEDNESDAY
This blessing from Sister Melanie was in answer to my silent prayers and most deep and secret petitions unto God :
You are blest. I want to be around people like you. You are a beautiful spark of motivation. May the Lord God bless you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet, may He place your feet in paths of gentle breeze. May your days reach a greatness of multitute. May you be blest with much seed in Zion. In Jesus' name.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:50:57 GMT -6
10/11- SABAOTH-LORD’S DAY
BRENT SOHLDEN’S JOURNAL
BOOK I
PURPLE
Dear Lord, thank you for this journal which I prayed for. Guide me in what I select to put in here. I dedicate this work to You, Yahweh my friend, Jesus Christ my Savior. Praise be to your Holy name forever more. Amen.
In my endeavor to be professional in every aspect of my life, I will be, with God’s guidance, selecting from my old journals, kept in notebooks, good parts and otherwise keepable parts. At the end of this project I will use this volume as my regular journal as I used my notebooks, only I will always write it out somewhere else first and transfer it as Joy taught me rather than writing it directly in here.
Thank you so much for this journal, writing and testimony project that you gave me Lord. By faith I know You are with me in this endeavor. Praise You!
Thank you for the books, stuff, food, lights, water and electricity and heat in this household and for Dad's willingness to roof this house and clean out my refrigerator. Bless the holy name of God!
As Caleb , I must face the Anakim in my Mount Ephraim. For now this house is my inheritance and it is my job to turn this mess into a huge success. I don’t desire to go into detail about the current situation for it is had in other records.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
Dear Lord, please help me to write neatly, in Christ’s name I pray, Amen.
(Editor’s note: While the third entry of my journal (written 10/14/2009 with later retrospective revisions) is not particularly edifying, it is all I have left of a year of a new beginning for me, when I first started living on my own. It does not set the tone for the rest of my journal. B.L.S.)
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:52:52 GMT -6
10/13- WEEK 45, DAY 6-DAY 3 OF THE WEEK-TUESDAY
I have noticed some good changes to my diet today.
For breakfast I had one packet of oatmeal and some milk.
For lunch I had a pb sandwich and some koolaid.
for a snack, an apple.
Funny how I haven’t learned how to eat right until I have reached the near end of my money and food supply. Perhaps that was necessary to teach me.
Actually, I have been making baby steps, a gradual series of good decisions concerning food for the past week or so. I love You, Lord! Lead me on to a place where the river runs into your keeping, O Jesus my Father and my Rock!
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:55:40 GMT -6
10/14- WEEK 45, DAY 7- DAY 4 OF THE WEEK-WEDNESDAY
At this point I had just started being a bachelor, or living as one, in a house I am renting from my father. My house was a disaster area from top to bottom. On this particular day I got up at 2a.m., awaking from a vivid dream, and attempted to read a bunch of books and the 1966 version of the Book of Mormon. I was also writing in a separate journal from the one I am taking this from, which I have since thrown away (Later I wrote observations from the Book of Mormon in yet another notebook, which I have also gotten rid of.) I attempted to read Scriptures from Ancient America by Roy A. Cheville, but have since lost it.
Around 6a.m. or 6:30 I tried reading the Book of Mormon in bed but fell fast asleep until 8a.m.
At 11:00 I ate lunch, then I made another attempt to read I Nephi Chapter 1, but became unbearably tired and cold and took a nap until 2p.m.
Later at 2:23 I studied I Nephi. I also made the scriptural observations I mentioned earlier. At or around 5p.m., after washing the dishes, I went to Lonnie Brown’s church on the corner of Pasadena and Lavelle, called Kingdom of Heaven Ministries, and continued to go to for a while on Wednesdays, before discontinuing my visits.
I was anointed and “administered to” by a lesser authority. A man with the appellation of “elder” did the anointing. A woman laid her hand on my head and prayed silently, her lips moving. Then a minister pronounced me “healed in the name of Jesus”.
I got home at 9:30p.m. Though I was taking the time to actually cook my food, that did not continue for long.
After finishing the dishes later between 2:38 and 4:15 a.m. I typed people’s journals on my laptop, listened to music and went to bed.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 18:59:00 GMT -6
11/01- LORD’S DAY-SABAOTH
Thank you so much O Lord YHWH! You have given me so much! Thank you for Dad’s help and the opportunities to visit and help out my Grandma Sohlden! You Lord are just so awesome!
I have trusted Thee and shall forever trust Thee! O Lord I long to return again to Zion singing a new song of everlasting joy!
O Lord turn the heart of my father and deliver me from those who seek my hurt! They continually lie in wait! I am as in the midst of a lions’ den alway.
O Lord Thou art merciful, and the truth is in You! You are my strength from day to day!
Praise Your Holy Name forever and ever. Amen.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:01:51 GMT -6
11/19- WEEK 50, DAY 5-THURSDAY
You, O Lord, are perfect in all your ways, I give you all of my praise! You are awesome, O Lord my Rock, My Shield and My Strength and Song! Praise you. In Christ’s name,
Amen.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:03:26 GMT -6
2011
UNDATED- (PUT UNDER JANUARY)
This is not a dated journal or philosophy. This is my heart poured out in words that I do not want to keep in. I feel if I don't write what's on my heart I'll never express it adequately hereafter. Or it may be just an excuse to write, which is something I like to do. Whatever the case, I need to express myself and if I don't I might lose the chance.
I love my Dad. I want him to come to the Gospel. As well as my sister and my stepmother. Okay it says in the book of Mormon let all your thoughts be unto God, so I'm typing to the Lord.
O Lord, shall my father indeed rejoin the Church? The Gospel is so plain, and brings such happiness, even though it is not an easy thing to please the Lord. It takes work.
I am interested in truth, not as the world seeks worldly truth, but the reality of an everlasting God and His worldview, and the truth that leads to God, not false truth which pleases men or relativism which says there is no such thing as absolute truth. Christ is truth.
The search for truth takes work and a sanctified life. You cannot search for truth whilst your life is a river of filth. You must allow Christ to transform your life a little at a time. I admit that my house is messy. I came to it and it was a lot messier when I got here. I have gotten rid of lots of things that did pollute this house, but there is still much work to do. I have heard that it would be meet for me to figure out what pleases Christ and do it. My biggest problems are prioritizing and laziness. I need You O Lord God to transform my life from the mess that it is in to the intentional life I know You have for me O God. And soon.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:09:50 GMT -6
05/23- WEEK 27, DAY 3-DAY 2 OF THE WEEK-MONDAY [MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011]
I was referred to a Work Training Program called F.W.O.G.C. Inc. And on May 23, 2011 my Grandma Sohlden died. Grandma was in a semi-coma. Dad and I sang hymns to her and I held her hand. Her Chaplain Jackie from the United Brethren church led us in prayer then the Lord’s Prayer. We all, Grandma included, held hands during the prayer. I told Grandma I loved her. She passed on to the eternal world at 6:20p.m. and was pronounced dead at 7:47p.m. Before she died I told her we’d meet in Zion. After her death Dad and I continued to sing hymns to her. Also after her death I gave her a final kiss on the cheek, and another kiss on the cheek and on the forehead and a final hug.
All arrangements were finalized in a timely and prompt manner, with no contention. Many relatives came to visit; many others were informed by phone. Mark was informed by internet.
At around 9p.m. two men came to take her body away. Dad and I left Merilyn’s and arrived home to my house after 10p.m. (PAGE +83+)
Grandma was later cremated, and buried at Crestwood Cemetery with her husband Wil, who died in 2003, shortly before Destiny became a Believer.
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Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:10:39 GMT -6
05/24-
WEEK 27, DAY 4-DAY 3 OF THE WEEK-TUESDAY
I had called Grandma on the phone a few days before May 24. I told her I love her a million times a million. She told me she loves me a million times a million, a trillion times a trillion. I cried so much that day.
About two weeks before May 21, 2011, I gave Jolissa some Restoration Magazines to borrow. She returned them a few days later and said she liked them. On April 18, 2011 I had given Jolissa a Book of Mormon.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:11:44 GMT -6
06/01-
WEEK 28, DAY 5-DAY 4 OF THE WEEK-WEDNESDAY
Between October 14, 2009 and May 23, 2011 I got a dog named Red. He’s a Golden Retriever/Irish Setter mix. I got him in 2009.
Love is sacrifice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:13:00 GMT -6
06/02- WEEK 28, DAY 6-THURSDAY
The night before June 2 I had a beautiful dream where it seemed like holy men gave me good advice.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:16:42 GMT -6
06/04- WEEK 29, DAY 1-DAY 7 OF THE WEEK-SABBATH-SATURDAY
On Daystar I watched an older youth program about escapism and the search for truth in the wrong places, namely, at a rave party, as well as some children’s programming on Tristate Christian Television, or TCT. One cartoon was about bugs standing up to a scorpion bully and the story of Gideon.
At the library I learned about William Cooper.
When I was at the library I tweeted to Glenn Beck that he should read Reorganizedchurch.org and pray about it “and anyone else who sees this tweet”.
Later I watched World History – Ancient Civilizations and learned some new stuff, and also reaffirmed some stuff I already knew.
Dear Lord, please help Harold Camping to come to know You better. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:18:43 GMT -6
06/09- WEEK 30-DAY 6-DAY 5 OF THE WEEK-THURSDAY On Wednesday, June 8, Dad, my Aunt Linda (who lives in a group home) and I – and also Linda’s staff, who took her home before the service ended – attended a “prayer and testimony service” at the Clio Community of Christ in Vienna Township. I got some free books and met Larry Judd, who I told about the JCRB and gave him two websites: www.conferenceofbranches.org and www.reorganizedchurch.org. After the service Dad discussed the details of the coming memorial service with the “elders” who would be in charge. My free books were Joseph Smith III’s Memoirs, Presidency and Priesthood by William H. Kelley, a book on Astronomy, and Between the Covers of the Book of Mormon by Verda E. Bryant. Larry offered me a book with Veazy’s stamp of approval promoting the CoC but I politely said I didn’t want it.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:20:02 GMT -6
06/11- WEEK 31, DAY 1-DAY 7 OF THE WEEK-SATURDAY-SABBATH
Today Joy met with Dad and Destiny and I at my old high school, in the parking lot. Joy's husband, Nathaniel and Nephi were with her. From there we drove to Old Country Buffet. We ate and talked. I told Joy and her husband I would miss them and hugged them, and Joy started driving back to Missouri. Dad drove me back home. (Editor's Note: It would be the last time I saw my cousin Nephi alive. Or so I thought. -B.L.S. 06/18/2016)
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:21:37 GMT -6
06/29- WEDNESDAY
At 2:16 a.m. I got up and started writing about Grandma's memorial service on June 12, 2011. I wrote thus:
Grandma Sohlden's memorial service was Sunday, June 12 at the Clio CoC on Vienna Road. It was a beautiful, Spirit-filled service. Grandma's sister, my Dad, my sister and I, Elaine Hanners, Debbie Darr and at least one other relative of mine (Elaine and Debbie are not relatives but members of the Vienna Rd. CoC that I have known for years when they went to the Westwood Congregation) got behind the pulpit and shared memories.
...[Before the service] [or after?] I help set up a display of photos and journals of Grandma's which members of the family looked at. The Old, Old Path. Oh how I desire our whole family to join the Restoration glorious! Being exposed to the CoC is better than nothing.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:22:26 GMT -6
07/06- WEDNESDAY
Red got a distemper shot and a rabies shot, one under the skin and one under the muscle.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:25:12 GMT -6
07/16-
SABBATH
After Dad took me to the library and I wrote in my journal I read from the Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, Jr. He truly translated the Book of Abraham. The Rosetta Stone had been discovered in 1822 but I'm not sure that's what he used. He was familiar with the translation of Egyptian. (Editor's Note: Although Joseph made a GAEL, or an Egyptian Character book, the vast majority of the Book of Abraham, after the first four or so verses, was translated by the gift and power of God. There were also holes in parts of the papyri that without the gift and power of God were untranslatable- B.L.S. 11/4/2015, 06/18/2016) Many RLDS reject the Book of Abraham. I do not. In 1835 Joseph mentions in his diary (at a time when he was translating the Egyptian records) that astronomy was unfolded to him.
Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 19:26:36 GMT -6
07/21- THURSDAY
Earlier this month (July 2011) Red went through an ordeal: There was a heavy amount of blood in his stools. The vet, Dr. Nelkie, gave him some tablets to line his innards and some meds to constipate him and some other meds. I did not feed him for a while – my dad did. After a while my dad entrusted me with giving the dog his meds. I asked several of my friends at work including James, Rodney, and Jolissa, to pray for Red when this ordeal began. By July 21 all his meds had been gone for a while and he was doing fine.
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