The Bishop has had us attending the current round of the Temple Preparation class, which he is teaching. I think he wanted a critical mass there, and our ward has a capacity problem with Gospel Doctrine, so all optional classes are running to help pull people out of the Gospel Doctrine class.
He goes slower than the manual says, we are still on lesson 1, six weeks into the course. It's not bad, the Bishop just likes teaching, and likes to delve into the topics. Today we talked about the resurrection. He started by asking if everyone's patriarchal blessing talked about "the morning of the first resurrection" or just the resurrection. Me and another guy indicated that the resurrection was not mentioned in ours. The Bishop made some comments, he was trying to get a rise out of us, he didn't out of me, but I kind of got the idea he was making the other guy a little nervous.
I asked a question about those who were not included on the diagram he was drawing on the board. We talked about people who are changed in a twinkling, and I said something about those people who just had a lot of work to do leading up to and into the millennium. Hopefully the other guy isn't worried about it, I'm certainly not. What comes comes. It doesn't worry me that my patriarchal blessing talks about one thing and maybe not another, it's not like it's a GPS for life or anything. Advice - Yes. Blessing - Yes. Lineage - Yes. Direction in your life - Yes. Complete map of your life - No.
A couple of good talks about patriarchal blessings (For those who want more than the wikipedia answer):
A Patriarchal Blessing: A message of identity, promise, and love
Patriarchal Blessings
Anyway, now you know. No mention of the resurrection. I checked tonight just to verify.
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