Seminary Centennial Broadcast

Brady, Taylor and I enjoyed the 100 year anniversary of Seminary Broadcast at our church tonight. President Erying talked about how his mother was in the very first Seminary class in 1912. At the age of 16 years old, she must have been invited to attend that class as her own family was inactive. He showed the original attendance book with his mothers signature on the pages; it was a really cool story. Next was showing the growth of the Seminary program these past one hundred years. Showing a map of the world, starting with Utah, and branching out into the surrounding states, then almost every country in the world except the middle east has this Seminary Church Program, it was very touching. Boyd K. Packer was next to speak. During his introduction, I learned some very fascinating facts about him

• He was born on September 10, 1924
• He was a pilot in WWII
• He received his B.S. & M.S Degrees from Utah State University
• Received his Ed.P. from Brigham Young University
• He and is wife had 10 children
• 60 grand children 
• 78 great grand children
• He became an apostle in 1970 at the age of 37
• He became President of the Quorum of the 12 in 2008

He spoke on the importance of Seminary in the lives of our youth. He spoke about how our identity and gender was given to us in heaven before we came to earth and that our destiny here on earth is to love our gender, which converged him into the standpoint on homosexuality and how the church will never support same sex marriage. He talked on keeping yourself physically and spiritually clean. How the church designed the Word of Wisdom program back in the 1800's before they knew anything about the lasting harmful effects of Tobacco, alcohol, teas and coffees. That our bodies were created in God's image and we need to respect our bodies and keep them clean. He also mention to refrain from tattoos and piercings (other than ears)  because it's a form of disrespect to our bodies. He talked about how we all need to learn how to discipline ourselves, which derives from the word Disciple meaning "people who were devoted followers of a great religious leader or teacher of philosophy". His words were very encouraging and left me wanting to be better  to be the best parent to my children.

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