Paul Peter and Mark

This class, Honors New Testament part 2, has helped me discover who Paul is. Before his class, honestly too my embarassment, all I knew of Paul was that he is a follower of Christ. Through this class I was able to follow Paul through his journeys until his final records in Rome, the city of his citizenship. We know this because when Paul is at the Herodian Temple mount the Romans save him, because he is a citzen, and he also speaks perfect greek and Hebrew. Luke is Pauls traveling compainon and wrote Acts Lukes account can be trusted because he quotes Mark and he was in the right places to do the research and personal interviews. Luke however, corrects marks order. Mark is Peter’s scribe, and therefore the book of Mark contains Peter’s Memoirs. Mary is the mother of Mark, she owns the room where the last supper was held. Peter and Paul were both strong sayers of truth. When Peter and John were arrested, Peter anounces to the rullers that they killed Christ. Mark was the missionary compaion of Paul and Barnabas. In the end of Paul's life he writes to Timothy and asks him to bring John Mark. Mark going to Rome completes the triangle between Peter and Paul.

Crandall Printing Press

Last week instead of going to class we attended the Crandall Printing Press on Center Street, in Provo. Like I have said in previous blog entries, I really enjoyed the opportunity that we have in this class, to get outside of the class room and learn about things that I would never have the opportunity to learn about otherwise. I have run past the Crandall Printing Press museum quit frequently and noticing that it is quite a small building I assumed that the tour would be relatively short. To my surprise the tour was two and a half hours! The information was relayed through 3 experienced men; two printers, and one historian. These men have given of their time and their savings to make this knowledge known to everyone. Similar to the bible seminar in the special collections, they focused on how things have been “published” over time. What I enjoyed, was learning about the Gutenburg press. Not only did we get to hear about the press, we were able to reenact everything in it. We made moveable type and we even printed a page of the bible in latin! We also learned about the founding fathers and how they produced the Declaration of Independence. What especially interested me was learning about how the Book of Mormon was published. The basement was my favorite room and was modeled after the original printing press where the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon was produced. I was touched as these men bore their testimonies of the divine help that was necessary to complete this impossible task in such a short amount of time. I was touched and it helped me understand and helped strengthen my testimony of the importance of the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon contains a FULNESS of the gospel. I know that everything that happened, including the legacy of the Johannas Gutenburg, was in preparation for the publishing of the Book of Mormon. This opportunity to attend this museum lecture has helped me to understand and gain a greater appreciation for God’s hand in bringing forth the precious book of truth that we have, The Book of Mormon.