And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God. (Mosiah 2:17)Innocent enough.
Yet when the elder was expounding on the words of King Benjamin, he stated something that perked up my ears. He said that this was the first time he had ever come across the passage.
When I was in seminary, this was a "scripture mastery" scripture. Do they not have scripture mastery any more?
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just a watered down version.
Scripture mastery is very much alive and is being emphasized even more strongly now with The Current Teaching Emphasis in CES. Don't know what happened for this Elder. Maybe he was sleeping :-)
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I should point out that this missionary comes from a typical Provo Mormon family.
We still devote Fridays to scripture mastery, but what we have lost (at least where I live) is the previously extensive award/competition program. We don't compete with the scriptures except for some mild intramural open-book jeopardy and we really don't have incentive to learn them, although never having seen them before is pretty weak.
A missionary told me recently that while seminary graduation was not necessary for a mission, most foreign missions required a four-year diploma. This saddened me as I'm going to finish only three years myself.
To go on a foreign mission you do not have to have a four year seminary degree. That is a falsehood. Don't worry yourself about it!
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