Pratt says for me to be writing about the book of Mormon and the lamanite curse. The lamanites were living in book of mormon times and they were wanting to hide there treasures in the ground, but what happened was god made the treasures disappear when they wanted to be finding them again.
And now there began to be a great acurse upon all the land because of the iniquity of the people, in which, if a man should lay his tool or his sword upon his shelf, or upon the place whither he would keep it, behold, upon the morrow, he could not find it, so great was the curse upon the land. (Ether 14:1-2)Im ALWAYS losing stuff and Im thinking its still that treasure curse thing! Pratt thinks thats it to. He hates it when theres heaps of stuff in the house cus then its REAL hard to be finding stuff when it slips away from you like that. Samuel the Lamanite was saying god makes your stuff all slippery so you cant be hanging onto it!
And behold," ... "the time cometh that he curseth your riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them.
"...And then shall ye lament, and say:... O that we had remembered the Lord our God in the day that he gave us our riches, and then they would not have become slippery that we should lose them; for behold, our riches are gone from us."Course, when Im losing stuff its NOT about me being bad! I just think its cus of those lamanites its still happening.That was still happening when Joseph Smith was looking for treasure to! There were spirits garding the treasure and if you werent doing everything JUST right, then the treasure would be sliding down in the earth! A coupla times they even hit the treasure with a spade, but then when someone did something like talking out loud, then the spirits made it slippery and they heard it rumbling away down in the ground! Even Martin Harris who was witnessing the book of mormon said about that stuff happening and Pratt says they were putting it in the newspaper
Mr. Stowel was at this time at old Mr. Smith's digging for money. It was reported by these money-diggers, that they had found boxes, but before they could secure them, they would sink into the earth.... There were a great many strange sights. One time the old log school-house south of Palmyra, was suddenly lighted up, and frightened them away. Samuel Lawrence told me that while they were digging, a large man who appeared to be eight or nine feet high, came and sat on the ridge of the barn, and motioned to them that they must leave.... These things were real to them, I believe, because they were told to me in confidence, and told by different ones, and their stories agreed, and they seemed to be in earnest—I knew they were in earnest (An interview with Martin Harris, published in Tiffany's Monthly, 1859, p.165).And Martin Harris had the same stuff happening to him to, so its not just happening to bad folk!
"I will tell you a wonderful thing that happened after Joseph had found the plates. Three of us took some tools to go to the hill and hunt for some more boxes, or gold or something, and indeed we found a stone box. ...but behold by some unseen power, it slipped back into the hill" (Speaking to a group fo Saints at Clarkston , UthTestimony of Mrs. Comfort Godfrey Flinders, Utah Pioneer Biographies, vol. 10, p.65, Genealogical Society of Utah, as cited in an unpublished manuscript by LaMar Petersen).The prophet Brigham Young was knowing about this stuff to! In 1877 he was saying
These treasures that are in the earth are carefully watched, they can be removed from place to place according to the good pleasure of Him who made them and owns them.... Orin P. Rockwell is an eye-witness to some powers of removing the treasures of the earth. He was with certain parties that lived near by where the plates were found that contain the records of the Book of Mormon. There were a great many treasures hid up by the Nephites. Porter was with them one night where there were treasures, and they could find them easy enough, but they could not obtain them.... He said that on this night, ... they dug around the end of a chest.... One man who was determined to have the contents of that chest, took his pick and struck into the lid of it, and split through into the chest. .. That chest of money went into the bank. Porter describes it so [making a rumbling sound]; he says this is just as true as the heavens are ... to those who understand these things, it is not marvelous..."SO, all this slippery treasure stuff was happening in the book of mormon AND to Joseph Smith and his friends to, so its probally happening to US! So Its REAL important to be thinking about if your wanting to hide up important stuff, like family records. You probally dont want to be putting it in the ground, but you might not be wanting to be putting it where the guverment can be finding it real easy, like those Texas FLDS folk. The guverment found all there records and it was making a heap of trouble for them. Pratt says hes got a WAY better place, but hes not saying about it!
(Journal of Discourses, vol. 19, pp.36-39).
Somebodys been saying MEAN stuff about my spelling again and being rude about Pratt checking it over to! Theres no spelling checker on Blooger and anyways I was trying a spelling checker thing once and it was NO good, cus it gave me a list of DUMB words to put in, and it wasnt making any sense at all!! Im thinking when your reading with the spirit you wont be reading and being critical to! Youll just be glad your reading the TRUTH!
Blessings!
HoneyDawn
