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Family Togetherness/Power of the Priesthood

Maddie still wants to be the baby.

"We are a happy family" 
Coming back from a visit to Lake Gaston.  "We love that place." It is fun to be together as a family.  I am grateful for a wonderful and loving husband, a daughter who is so mature and such a good girl, another daughter who's smile infects the whole family and who loves to help and take an interest in whatever someone is doing, a son who loves to make us all laugh and keeps us all moving, a daughter who has such a tender heart and loves to be with her brother, a little boy who loves to laugh and brings the family so much joy.  I am blessed!!

  D&C 29:27-29
"27  And the righteous shall be gathered on my right hand unto eternal life; and the wicked on my left hand will I be ashamed to own before the Father;

28  Wherefore I will say unto them— Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

29  And now, behold, I say unto you, never at any time have I declared from mine own mouth that they should return, for where I am they cannot come, for they have no power."
I am studying about the priesthood and as I read vs. 29 and it states "for where I am the wicked they cannot come, for they have no power" I think about the power of the priesthood. It says wicked not women. It shows me that women do have the power of the priesthood, in the temple we learn this, and so we will have the power to return to our Father in Heaven. He isn't just going to let the men in.
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