DT1 -- Dallin H. Oaks

“The scriptures can also help us obtain answers to highly specific personal questions. It is obvious, of course, that the scriptures do not contain a comprehensive list of specific answers to every question we could ask about a particular subject. The scriptures are not like a telephone book or an encyclopedia.
“We often hear it said that the scriptures have the answers to all of our questions. Why is this so? It is not that the scriptures contain a specific answer to every question—even to every doctrinal question. We have continuing revelation in our Church because the scriptures do not have a specific answer to every possible question. We say that the scriptures contain the answers to every question because the scriptures can lead us to every answer.
“… The reading of the scriptures will help us obtain a testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They will also put us in a position where we can obtain inspiration to answer any doctrinal or personal question, whether or not that question directly concerns the subject we are studying in the scriptures. That is a grand truth not understood by many. To state it again, even though the scriptures contain no words to answer our specific personal question, a prayerful study of the scriptures will help us obtain such answers. This is because scripture study will make us susceptible to the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, which, as the scriptures say, will ‘guide [us] into all truth’ (John 16:13), and by whose power we can ‘know the truth of all things’ (Moroni 10:5).
“We may also find that a specific verse of scripture that was spoken for quite a different purpose in an entirely different age will, under the interpretive influence of the Holy Ghost, give us a very personal message adapted to our personal needs today” (“Studying the Scriptures,” 19–21).

Grandpa Miller

About 6 weeks ago I dreamed of my Grandfather.  In my dream he was a young man.  I have pictures of him when he was young.  He was handsome, thin and smiling wide.  He looked happy.  Beside him was a man who looked just like him.  No words passed between us, but I knew the man beside him was his father.  I remember thinking they looked alike.  When I woke though, I remembered the image of my Grandfather very clearly, but I could not remember what is father looked like any longer.

I shared the dream with my Mother-in-Law and she suggested that maybe my Grandfather wants me to get his Temple work done.  That sounds right to me.

He bears his testimony

On November 4th, 2012 DG 9 bore his testimony in Sacrament meeting for the first time.  It was clear and brief.  It was what he believes.  I was proud of him.