Melva Gifford

Val Bagley is a cartoonist who did a series of cartoon displaying the logic of the book of Mormon events occurring in the heartland of North America rather than Central America. Any misinformation of these notes is the fault of the note taker. This presentation was at an Emergency preparedness / Book of Mormon conference.

• He has drawn for the new era since 1978 and for the friend magazine since 2008.
• My biggest inspiration is the artist Arnold Freberg. He loves the majesty and images of his art. He wants to imitate those traits in his own art. His art in the magazines, concentrates upon the Central America location. When was he invited to do art for the heartland location, he was torn. Ryan Nelson was the one who asked Val to do this art. Rod Meldrum also talked to him about the heartland module.
• Cartoon: of Joseph smith meeting with the Indians of this land (North America)
• Cartoon: river Siden is the Mississippi river: “bro Joseph, King Benjamin invite you over to join us.
• Cartoon: displays wheat and barley being grown in North America and not Central America.
• Cartoon: of all types of people coming to North America and the Aztecs say “told you we should have asked for directions.
• Major events of Book of Mormon occurred within about a 100 mile radius of Zelph’s mound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelph
• Cartoon: Aztec says “my professor says that northward does not necessarily mean north” <indicate North America verses south.> http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700035437/The-fight-over-Book-of-Mormon-geography.html
• Cartoon: North American Indian (with his horse) invites Aztec native to race his lama with the horse.
• Cartoon: beasts in North America are bison while a beast in South America is a lizard.
• Cartoon: about two Cumorah. “The hill Cumorah is in new York I saw Caster there once.”
• Cartoon: I was commanded to build an altar of stones not a stone alter. (To follow Mosaic Law of uncut stone)
• Cartoon: This can’t be the Promised Land, there are no kings, and then shows the restaurant, Burger King.
• The artist had been called as a temple worker. He told a fellow patron He’d liked Nephite Explorer. Man got into a tirade. He can’t see why there has to be contention on the subject. https://nephiteexplorer.com/
• Cartoon: of man in the jungle of South America and he asks “where are the plains of the Nephites?”
• Cartoon: one last question for your temple recommend. Do you believe there is one or two Cumorah? http://blog.fairmormon.org/2008/02/12/the-two-cumorah-theory%E2%80%9D/
• Cartoon: How did Brigham young see the mountain open up to see a room filled up with gold plates? Did the Aztecs fill up a wagon and move the plates to North America? It was after this cartoon that he became converted to the North America model. He is exited to share this message.
• Cartoon: At the crucifixion of Christ, the city of Zarahemla burned. Cartoon: of an Aztec insurance agent looking at the Aztec stone temple. You’ll want to get fire insurance on this beauty because we all know how flammable stone is.
• He loves doing art for the book of Mormon.
• Art and cartoon examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=Val+Bagley+cartoonist+%2B+utah&sa=X&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=894&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwiGg6q7_8LRAhUW2GMKHWE6B2sQ7AkIRA

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There is a book collector who owns a store called Heirloom Art & Co. He is doing firesides about books once a month and I am starting to go. These are my notes from tonight’s presentation of From Shakespeare to Harry Potter: 400 Years of English Literature.

The presenter went to the home of The Bronte sisters who wrote weathering Heights and Jane Eyre. He saw a mirror (or may had been engraved in the glass of window) that had a part of a letter from one of the sisters. In a paragraph of the letter, she talked about how she missed her sister after her death. In the paragraph and talked about the beauty of nature, and how the two sisters used to enjoy spending time together.

The presenter has a copy of one of two first volumes of Harry Potter that is signed by a seven-year-old boy named Daniel Ratcliff (actor of Harry Potter.) As a boy, he who wrote the book that he was going to be Harry Potter.

Harry Potter was originally  rejected by 12 publishers so when JK tried the 13th time she changed her name and put her first name as a middle initial and I believe her grandmother’s name as a first name thus making it JK Rawlings

Shakespeare lost both parents and was put under the management of a Catholic priest.

Shakespeare fell in love at the age of 18 but his guardian said he could not marry until he was 21. Shakespeare agreed and waited an additional three years until 21. At 21 he went over to the woman’s house and proposed. When he felt love originally in 18 his wife is 26. They had three kids.

In 1623 was when the first volume of the complete works of Shakespeare was printed. About 7 years after his death. There were only four times that a complete collection Shakespeare plays were printed after his death in the 1600s. And these are called the four folios. There were about 250 volumes printed at each printing. The rarest of the four folios is the third edition, because the great fire of London destroyed most copies.

At age 54 before his death Shakespeare penned a curse to be put on his tombstone. Part of the curse referenced those that might move his bones.

Shakespeare is known to have created 3000 original words. Some of those words were goose chase and bedazzled. He was also known to do a number of humorous insults.

Shakespeare was influenced by William Tyndale’s. Tyndale’s helped translate the first Bible into English. Tyndale’s bible was used by Shakespeare in many of his quotes in his plays. One of the words that Tyndale’s had to create was the word ‘atonement’ which meant (at one). Shakespeare also used the word ‘atonement’ in his play. There was an average of 50 to 100 quotes of the Bible in each Shakespeare’s plays.

The Presenter found a copy of Handel’s Messiah printed into metal plates it cost him about $100 bucks.

Doyle’s first book of A Study in Scarlet, references Mormons. Doyle’s reference material of Mormons was from a book an anti-Mormon who left the church. She wrote a book: An English woman in Utah. There are four things that were often said about the United States from British citizens. Niagara Falls, the bad manners of United States citizens, Chicago meat factories and Mormons.

From Charles Dickens personal library is a book of sonnets by Tuford. (Tuford was the lawmaker that worked on the first author’s copyright law to protect author’s material; otherwise, other people stole their material and they got no income from.

A Christmas Carol sold out the first day of publication. The book the Pickwick papers was dedicated to Tuford.

Dickens confessed to a friend named Smith that he worried that he wouldn’t sell his books. His memoir is his book, David Copperfield.

J.R.R. Tolkien was born in South Africa lost both parents by the age of 10. Tolkien and CS Lewis were both in the writing group inklings

CS Lewis was born in Ireland and lost his mother and his father was a drunkard. He used to be picked on a lot at school. Upon meeting his mentor CS talk about how while the place wasn’t his move to and his mentor says how can you say that? When the boy could not answer his mentor told him to say anything unless you can back it up.

Bought a copy of the Screw tape letters bought it for about $120 and sold it for $3500 below the bidding price.

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Good: Preparedness

Bad;    Prepardness

I am constantly forgetting the second e.

This might help. PreparEdness means when you are prepared you are ready for any Emergency.

The second E is for Emergency.

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I attended a preparedness seminar and took notes on how to be healthy/lose weight without diets.

1. Eat what God created.
2. Eat food in the form God and nature created it

– Drinking a can of apple juice which comes from the store contains fructose and is not absorbed in                         appropriate time. Drink apple juice with the pulp for the fiber slows the absorption of selecting the                           absorbed properly.

– The problem with grain is the gluten, which is in baked bread.

3. Eat food infidelities. The system is designed to provide. Food is not easy to grow is to be small. Wherefore food and is easy to grow and be eaten higher quantities. One example of this is sugarcane. You have to work at the bar inside to Sugar that this is an example of some of its. Share their decision associated to the holidays because of his readiness. This means that when food is grown in certain times in here that is the time to eat. Become complicated with the ability to obtain truth. This has become complicated as grocery stores containing foods from around the world in a season where needed.
4. Eat by the sweat of your brow

– Since artificial foods have been created, there has beeb excessive increase of cancers. God created food             that required effort to harvest them, prepare them in.

– Check out the video: sugar, the bitter truth and check out the video: chance

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I attended a book of Mormon / Emergency preparedness conference and this is a presentation titled Unknown Mormon Doctrine.  Any misinformation or inaccurate info is blamed on my bad note taking.

Christ changes our lives to five ways:

• Change of our feelings and how we think
• Changes our hands or actions.
• Change of visions. How we see or interpret what we do.
• Change of voice or inner dialogue. We see things through celestial eyes. An example of this is a pilot being shown how to fly. First, he is told what to do then show what to do and then do. The instructor once said you have to retrain your instincts when flying.
• We need to return our instinct for celestial purposes.
• DC 18:10 – 12 talks about the worth of souls is great to God.

There are different types of consumption:

• Consumption by destruction: Mosiah 4:6 Satan destroys?
• Mosiah 3:19, DC 127:7 – nine, DC 11:21, DC 19:23
• Consume uselessly: first Corinthians 214, Mark 4:19
• Consume beneficially: we learn, read scriptures
• We create to the act of creation. Third Nephi 27:21, third Nephi 27:57, second Nephi 26:24, third Nephi 12:48
• Movie: the infinite gift. How to accept the atonement? DC 121:41,
• Moroni 10:7: after working with over 1000 years of Scriptures this is a summary of the Scriptures

Special gifts:

• 1st Corinthians 12,
• 1st Corinthians 14.
• Chapter 13 is smack in the middle of those two chapters which talks about charity. Which means that two can be our spiritual gift. The people that divide the chapters broken up into separate chapters
• An example of where Christ taught to shortness and kindness and love. After Christ’s death three of the apostles went back to fishing to earn money for their families. While they were fishing they couldn’t catch anything. A figure reaches the shore and asked them have you met? They say they didn’t. He told them cast their nets on the other side. They had an abundance of fish and Peter dives to the water and swims to the Savior

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I attended the Timpanogos storytelling meeting for the month of January. We had a very good presentation on how to achieve goals. Stephanie always gives a good presentation. Tonight, he stated, that there are five steps as she is found great success in achieving our goals.

1. Create an image in your mind that moves you to action.

• Imagine what it feels like use all the senses imagine that experience of success. Stephanie had the goal to play the guitar so she created an image with the guitar that she can put on her phone or someone she can access frequently to remind her.
• You can also print it and put it on your fridge or mere.

• The visual image has more power than words.
• Warning, be careful not to create too many goals to achieve at the same time. You’ll want to choose a goal that creates passion in your heart. If the goal doesn’t create passion within you, then put that goal away to be achieved later. You need to choose a goal that excites you and continues to excite you.
• Information a goal like a seed you plant it to grow when you put it back in the seed bag to nurture later.
• You may need to be flexible on your goal. An exciting goal will be seen as you nurture that goal and like a seed, it begins to swell in growth. It feels good.
• Let your goal like a seed and the starts to swell it feels good.

2. Piggybacking:

• A lot of times you can have better success on a goal when you can find an individual that  has a similar goal or shared goal that you could work with as a partner. You can be accountable to each other. You want to be a positive support and encourage each other.
• An alternative is to piggyback on a certain time. For example, the Stephanie she had a child had to do certain homework at a certain time of day. In that time while the child did the homework she practiced guitar. Another storyteller told of her experience that every time she came in from the house for guitar was by the door and she would price with a certain amount of time at least once a day.
• You could just devote 15 minutes a day for your goal.

3. We weed it:

• What is the consequence of growing plants? As the plants grow often weeds will grow beside the plant. Weeds often grow quickly be small on one day and seemed to grow large suddenly the next day. The weeds represent negative thoughts.
• As an object lesson, she told us of what she has done it in her household as an experiment. She tried this for her household. She cooked rice and put it into two different containers rice into different containers. One container was labeled native-language. The rice represents our words or self-talk. It might be different types of name-calling. Calling someone stupid, or other complaints among siblings within a family. You direct all those comments toward the sealed jar that’s labeled negatively. And the second jar you label is positive. For family situation, this might be a compliment to a family member one encouragement of how good they do something all the positive comments are directed to the positive jar. You try to achieve goals this example might be the self-language that you give to yourself. You talk about yourself being stupid incapable or other such insults but you direct those words to the native jar. Then you direct your positive thoughts your successes and accomplishments of accounting part of a goal to war the positive jar. The observation was been made multiple times that the rice that is in the positive jar seems to be preserved in a better condition than the rice in the negative jar. The negative jars of rice deteriorated faster. This object lesson is an excellent example of the power of words in a positive way or
• The observation has been made multiple people who have tried this experiment, that the rice that is in the positive jar seems to be preserved in a better condition than the rice in the negative jar. The negative jars rice deteriorates faster. This object lesson is an excellent example of the power of words in a positive way or negative.
• Some people will put negative words into Journal but then they will attach to each negative thought a positive consequence. For example, I didn’t practice the full 15 minutes of the guitar but I did do seven minutes of the guitar. This would point out that there was some success achieved and not to beat up yourself up about it another example might be that you try to achieve something it didn’t work but at least you tried and not but is included on the negative thought. Give yourself credit for each time you have success partial or full success.

4: Wait for it, wait for it, wow:

• Stephanie gave another example where we can work on goals a bit at a time. Like cutting little away slices off a paper. It doesn’t seem significant the bit by bit until we see the end result.
• As an object lesson to start cutting away the little notches of a snowflake. A Nick here and make their each working toward a goal there and you wait for it and finally wow that snowflake is completely created for your goal has been achieved and you wow because you did your success.
• As you grow things will move to support you in your goals. One person made a comparison of this to the documentary called the secret. Where you get positive energy related to your goals.

5: Celebrate it.

• When you achieve your goal, share the joy with others family and friends to let them know what you’ve achieved. You have planted your tree you nurtured your tree you prevented weeds from overtaking the tree and now the tree is bearing fruit take a bite of that delicious fruit savored the juices and enjoy the fruit that you have helped create. Call friends and tell them of the success.
• Some filmmakers will create a list of smaller tasks that can work to what the bigger tasks. Others will just have the image of the overall goal and just do things it feels good at the moment to get the old toward the goal and you followed the promptings of your heart.
• God says that after each day of creation quote it is good”.
• Well in popularity do not mean that you will always succeed. There can always be someone better at what you do. Each of us can continue to do better in no way.
• Document your successes or your goals as if they have already happened past tense not future. In this mindset will let it be a reality.
• Your brain can only believe when you tell it.
• You can produce more together than alone.

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I keep using them wrong but here is a visual image that may help me remember. The I is in waist because the dot at the top of the I represents the head of the person whose waist I am talking about

We’ll see it that will help.

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This is from a business/motivation series of lectures I attended. This one is about making money by creating domains for customers.

• real estate: virtual real estate/domain
• vacant land domain name/URL
• building
• Rent leasing or advertising.
• Agent
• Cost $000 registration can be as low as I dollars.
• ROI = 10% ROI = 1000%
• Foreclosure expiring or dropping.
• You profit big, by buying and developing domains that people will want to buy from you.
• Lookup Dinesen Orme. And see how much that search is worth.
• 5000 people will look up a dentist in a major city.
• Someone created a website called jolt to.com who would look that up?
• Dennis may pay Google $.05-$.16 per click
• take 10% of the income and spend on yourself, 10% tithing the rest may be reinvested.
• Article: flipping for domains, Forbes
• article: what a killer domain name is really worth. Magazine IMC
• successful domain traders: Frank Schilling, marc Ostrovsky
• begin with an end in mind.
• Know what you want to sell before you start buying
• the higher the number of potential buyers. The quicker the sell ofthe domain.
• High ROI, low risk.
• Simplify: maximize cash flow, not just profits.
• “If you have great ambition. Take the biggest step as possible in that direction”
• Four steps of domain real estate:
• when a domain auction. Via Go Daddy.com
• Monetize the domain.
• Lists for sale
• Market propaganda

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