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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jul 5, 2022 17:46:55 GMT -6
2016 CE
CDT
02.24--
WEDNESDAY
"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither security nor freedom."-Benjamin Franklin
"I am an American"-Benjamin Franklin in the British Parliament
I am equally Christian and American-Brent Sohlden.
I am not a Republican. I am a Paleo to Social Conservative who does not criticize the man of God called Lincoln.-Brent Sohlden
I am not Protestant. I am original Catholic, original Mormon and a supporter of the JCRB and original Remnant (not Jim VunCannon's group who believe and teach that all will be saved) and Jubyite Latter Day Saints who believes in the unity of all the valid sects including the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) and the Church with the Elijah Message, who believes the Kingdom, Walls and Temples in Zion must be built before Christ will return at the appointed time or the whole world will be utterly wasted at his coming, who has joined the Restructured Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in AD 2022, baptized by the Three Nephites, who still is waiting on his First Communion as of 8.17.2022.-Brent Sohlden
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Aug 17, 2022 21:50:58 GMT -6
2017 AD
CDT
01.19--
THURSDAY
Rewritten 3-3-17 and other dates afterward.
O Lord, I consecrate and dedicate this work unto Thee O God, that it may be for the welfare of my soul and may edify all who read it. Amen.
Compiled from a few sources and extensively added to and corrected from my experiences and new perspectives on past experience.
Holy Spirit, pour out Thyself upon me as I pen these lines, that I may put things in the way you would have me to put them, and leave out what You would have me to leave out. Thy will be done, Father.
Amen.
When I was a boy, very young, but at least eight, I strongly desired to be baptized into the RLDS Church after the split which I was unaware of at that tender stage of my life.
Although I was also not aware of it, my paternal grandfather Toivo Wilfred Sohlden had been ordained to the office of Priest in that Church in 1966.
Although I had the desire to be baptized, this strong desire, I was not able to be baptized. By my freshman year of high school, I was a believer in an "upper entity" though I did not know Him. I thought him to be possibly Zeus, but I did believe there was some God. I was not a Christian at all, and did not see my need for a Savior. I believed that Jesus Christ had been a real person, for my grandmother on my mother's side had given me a comic book novel about the life of Jesus called 'The Man Who Moved The World' which I had read at a young age. Some time in my early teenage years I read about 40 chapters of Genesis in my paternal grandmother's family Bible. The Lord was preparing my heart to receive His Grace. He moved further in my Sophomore year of high school when by the portion of His Spirit that had been with me since I had been born He led me to attend an after-school Bible study called Pure Fire, though I knew not that He was leading me. This Bible study was led by a lawyer named Mike Thomas. Satan tried to stop what happened next by stirring up strife through the misinterpretation of a letter Mike Thomas sent through the mail to those who attended Pure Fire. I was led to believe my Bible study was a cult and I used great swelling words against it in a letter I wrote that I wanted to be published in the student newspaper, the Voice. Then a group of believers had a talk with me and gave me a tract, but I was led to believe that the tract was wrong. But I kept attending the Bible Study until, on October 12, 1999, a man named Wade answered some questions and gave me a NIV Bible. I thought I was saved, but wasn't actually saved until October of 2019. When I was given the NIV Bible I was in the 16'th year of my age.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Aug 17, 2022 22:19:13 GMT -6
01.29--
LORD'S DAY-SABAOTH
Rewritten 3-4-17
During that same time Mark Edward Sohlden my uncle started coming over to Dad and Mom's (Dad and my step-mom's) house and he part-way convinced me of the truth of the fullness of the Everlasting Gospel. I began to carry Mark's old 3-in-1 Scriptures to class with me sometimes. At one time I asked Mike Thomas what he thought of the RLDS Church and he said it was cultish.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Aug 17, 2022 22:44:11 GMT -6
02.14--
YOM SHLISHI-VALENTINE'S DAY
Rewritten 3-4-17 and possibly other dates afterwards.
At first, during my early walk as thinking I was a believer, I continued to attend my grandmother and grandfather's Church, even the RLDS Westwood Congregation, Flint District, until just after 2001. Near the time the RLDS changed its name to Community of Christ I tried some other churches (Methodist and Missionary) and settled on a black church that my sister Destiny had attended called Greater Zion Hill Bible Church, then Zion Hill Bible Church, then later called Restoration Outreach Center (R.O.C.).
While I was yet living at my dad and stepmother's house I was baptized into that church. When I moved to an Adult Foster Care Home after living with my Grandma for a time, then back at dad's and a stay at a mental ward, and crisis home, while at the AFC Home I would visit Grandma's house on the weekends, and, eventually, because of my sister's prayers I moved back to Grandma's. I continued attending the R.O.C. because it was close by. Sometime while I was at Grandma's while I lived at the AFC home still (by that time I had completely rejected the Restoration, having thrown the Book of Mormon away that Sister Elaine Hanners had given me (Sister Elaine Hanners of Westwood had also given me a Doctrine and Covenants), my Uncle Mark Got me to read part of his book 'The Continual Creation Story of The Author', and every word in that book weighed on me. Every word.
Mark also continually preached to me and wrote me letters. Although these letters contained a heresy known as 'Christian Naturism'--Nudism--, the letters played a big role (for the truth they also contained) in the decisions I would later make to take the Kingdom of God seriously.
While living at the Adult Foster Care Home, I was writing in my 16'th journal, weighing the consequences of whether to believe in the Book of Mormon and Restoration, I made the decision right then and there in the AFC Home to believe, regardless of what those consequences were.
After moving back to Grandma Marge Sohlden's house, Mark and then Grandma started taking me first to the Oakwood Restoration Branch, then to the Otter Lake Restoration Branch, but for a while, until 2004, I still attended the R.O.C. But after seeing corruption in that church, I left it and cut up my Membership card, then began attending the Restoration Branches full time. During that time my Uncle Mark took me to the Kirtland Temple about 3-4 times. And during one of those visits, I met Kevin Brown at the Kirtland Restoration Branch. When I got home I wrote Kevin an email desiring him to baptize me. However, although he said he would, he either wasn't able to or never did. My desire for baptism began to wane, though I continued to study the Scriptures and various Church books and tracts.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jan 19, 2023 12:26:07 GMT -6
05.10--
WEDNESDAY
Originally written 02.14.2017, with changes.
At Oakwood Restoration Branch I was administered to for a urinary infection and healed instantly.
Elder Ron Saylor wrote me a letter in response to my letter to him telling me that one day I would see my need for baptism.
In 2005 I wrote to God in red ink, these words:
Ok, I am ready to listen. What should I do to prepare for Zion?
I heard, or thought I heard (whether I answered myself or it was God it does not matter now) "Move to Missouri".
After that I almost immediately started to pack and I made the proper preparations for the move, and Grandma Marge and I made the 900-mile drive to the land of Zion. Grandma Marge dropped me off at Joy and Cecil Soper's house in the fall of 2005. I started attending Israel's Gathering of the Church of Jesus Christ, Independent Restoration Branches. Soon afterwards, my uncle Ken Soper, who was then an Aaronic Priest, convinced Joy to attend the very first Conference of Restoration Branches at Stone Church in Independence, Missouri. I was not yet baptized, so I did not have voice or vote. Joy is Ken's mother. Since I really did not understand the magnitude of what was going on, I left the building during Conference Assembled and took a walk out on the Temple Lot. Although someone I trusted tried talking me out of it, soon afterwards I was baptized the first time November 20, 2005 and confirmed the first time on the same date, both at Israel's Gathering. Uncle Ken baptized me and Howard Hubert Smith and Cecil Owen Soper confirmed me. Cecil Soper was the spokesman. One of the things Cecil said during the confirmation prayer was "It is not a gift until you receive it." The first time I truly received the Gift of the Holy Ghost was on May 18, 2022 at 10:02 PM at my apartment in Oak Grove, Missouri, by the laying on of the hands of one of the Three Nephites after my Second Baptism. The first time I felt the Holy Spirit of God was when I got my first Book of Mormon Testimony after reading a couple of times (I had never read it all the way through the first time I lived in Michigan). This testimony is confirmed by many, many Scriptural and archaeological witnesses.
I attended several more JCRB Conferences in which I had voice once, vote as a Member several times and was an alternate at least once and a delegate once., for which I am very thankful to God. I also was present at the first District Organization meeting of the Independence District and was a member of the Independence District until 2009, and I am also very thankful for this. I witnessed the Gospel preached at the Conference with the power and authority of God, and also was witness to fresh revelation from heaven, starting in 2006 with Marlin Guin's Inspired Message to the Whole Church.
In Summer of 2006 I received my first Patriarchal Blessing from Patriarch Milo M. Burnett. Teacher Dean Gray drove me to his house in Logan, Iowa from woodbine Reunion Grounds in Little Sioux, Iowa, Followers of Christ Reunion., and Milo laid his hands upon me and gave me the blessing.
Later, back in Missouri, while I yet lived with Joy and Cecil the first time, I received my first Inspired Version testimony, and felt the Holy Spirit in the same way as I had with my first Book of Mormon testimony. There are at least two witnesses in the Scriptures, the DC, that confirm this Testimony, and many witnesses in the Church Fathers.
In 2009 I moved back to Michigan to say goodbye to my dying grandmother, then in 2005 God called me back to Zion in an audible voice in 2015.
While yet in Michigan the second time, I laid the Commandments and Covenants by Rick D. Leonard and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants (to 144) side-by-side on the dining room table. I got on my knees and raised my hands to heaven and asked God if the Doctrine and Covenants was true. I got nothing. Then I asked if the Commandments and Covenants was true. Again, nothing. Then I asked if both together were true. I felt a strong, strong, strong deep burning in my bosom. This Testimony has a witness in Joseph Smith's Sermons and some witnesses in the Doctrine and Covenants.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jan 19, 2023 17:12:56 GMT -6
04/15--
SATURDAY-SABBATH
Around 10:28 CST I distinctly heard in a nearly audible voice, "Move for awhile" as I lay in bed.
It was at a time where I lived at Joy and Cecil's house the second time, and I was contemplating moving into an apartment.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jan 19, 2023 18:13:29 GMT -6
04/18--
TUESDAY
Letter given to me by Gina Denise Beaudrie, now married to Apostle Jeff of the Restructured Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 4/18/2017 in the morning as I was letting Bandit (Gina's Cat) downstairs.
(PAGE 1)
Brent,
I'm writing this Because reading things is the only way you can get stuff In your head. Im going to explain so you Can understand why every one in this Family is mad and disappointed about you and your Behavior. In the beginning we Knew we could help you and you could help us. and we could all (double underlined) enjoy tHe blessings we would Receive From God TO have each other in each others lives. From recieving these Gifts God was Giving US. But as it turns out you Brent always Gave yourself an excuse a way out of any thing you ever do that is not right. Some of which are "Im sorry" "I dont know how" "everyone sins" "Ill do better", these are only some of your cop outs that In your head
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you Knew you Could sAy TO us .But mostly to yourself So you . Could continue to Behave any way you Choose (double underlined) to . I know For a fact that God chose NOT Create you Brent or anyone in Such a way that they do Not know the difference Between right and wrong even the Crazyiest person knows and mAkes the Choice to do right or wrong. they are aware of mAking that Choice.
We In this Family tried so hard even every different way to help you . But day After day AFter day was Always the Same thing you had an excuse why it was ok that you made your wrong Choice. which you do Brent have control over what Choices you mAke.
But you always In your head have give yourselF an
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excuse or reason to mAke It ok For yourself to do what ever it is you want to do, an excuse to mAke it ok in your head. "Your sick," your retarded," what ever the excuse is . dosnt matter. you put it there to mAke it so you can continue to be able to do what you want. God gave you a chance to Live in Zion NOW (double underlined) Brent.
every Chance God gave you to do work (double underlined) For Him (double underlined), you didn't want to do it. y He Gave you a Chance to do For others , But you didnt want to, so you complained and complained , made others Feel Bad For even asking For your help.
He Gave me that Same Job to do in Florida. to help Larry's mom. I did these very same Jobs. For her. But I was So excited Because I knew I was
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Being used and was doing a sevice For my Lord and Savoir
I was so happy that God Gave me a Chance to do something For him. When She died I was Sooo Sad Because I could No longer do the Jobs God Gave me to help her. I thought In my head my Job was over and I cryed Because I thought I had Nothing I Could do For god any more. Then he Brought me here to mous missouri and there he gave me so many Jobs to do for him. I was so happy I Never dreamed he would have put me in a place where I Could be used and have so many things to do for him (double underlined).
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Brent he gave you these Same oppertunities to start your Blessings with him but you rejected every th thing he put in your Path to help you to Be in Zion. and every thing he tried to bless you with. every Gift he tried to give you.
that Brent is why we are Sad, mad, and disappointed.
But God Says to us Now.
Its time to move on its time to dust oFf your Sandles and move on.
Im Sorry For you Brent
I do hope And pray you can that God can reach you so you can Respond to his Calling. I do Brent whis wis hope to see you there in Zion. I hope you Can heed to his call.
Love you Brent
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jan 19, 2023 20:11:38 GMT -6
06-11--
LORD'S DAY-SABAOTH-SUNDAY
If God has faith, surely the Saints of God must always have faith to live in His Presence, even throughout eternity. (LOF 1:15B;4:1B)
Sermon notes:
Call to worship: Revelation 21 (AMP) Elder Kenny Soper
I am making all things new- I AM
The Holy City.
Speaker: Robert Thompson II
Scripture reading: Alma 17:35-36 RLDS
Mt. 18:21-34
Lk. 17:12-19
Lk. 7:40-50
What really came out of these parables is that the natural man will focus on the gift and not the giver. Even though two out of three of the parables had to do with money and debt, this has nothing to do with money or debt, but the love of God, and our focus, and response of thanksgiving, praise and unworthiness. Sometimes we don't recognize what God is doing in our lives....
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