- No schemes are needed to further the cause of Zion (heading; 1)

- The Lord can give us power to pay our debts (5)

- But that doesn't mean that we may indulge in "riotous consumption"

- Blessings come as we are prepared to receive them (11) 

- Duties of the president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (4-12,16)

• Be of good cheer
• Raise warning voice
• Be humble
• Don't be partial; love all
• Admonish the Twelve sharply
• Hold keys of the kingdom in all nations

- Instructions to the Twelve Apostles (14-15, 28, 33)

• Arise
• Gird up their loins
• Take up the cross
• Follow Christ
• Feed the sheep
• Do not exalt themselves
• Do not rebel against the prophet
• Purify their hearts
• Go into all the world and preach
• Behold the magnitude of their calling
• Cleanse their hearts and garments

- The Twelve send others to "open the door of [the Lord's] kingdom" (21-22)

• Allow me to remind you that a call to serve as a full-time missionary is an apostolic assignment.
  
• Pres. Dallin H. Oaks - "Elder Oaks Shares Missionary Assignment Process" (2015) - https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/elder-oaks-shares-missionary-assignment-process
  
• Pres. M. Russell Ballard - "Your Personal Interview with an Apostle" (2015) - https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2015/06/how-are-missionaries-called/your-personal-interview-with-an-apostle.html?lang=eng
  
  
• Elder Ronald A. Rasband - "The Divine Call of a Missionary" (2010) - https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2010/04/the-divine-call-of-a-missionary?lang=eng

• Unfortunately, a few missionaries don't get this vision. Full-time missionary service is a sacred calling, not an inherent right. One should never serve a mission for any other purpose other than to be a preacher of righteousness

• Serve out of love for God, his word, and his work, not only because it is a commandment
• Neither simply to please parents, priesthood leaders, or gain the praise of friends
• Nor to wait for a loved one, or seek an eternal companion

- Judgment will start in the church (24-26)

- The Twelve hold their calling in connection with all previous Apostles (30-32)

Read the material in the D&C Student Manual (2017), chapter 44; pp.656-657

- The official name of the Lord's Church in these last days (4)

• Read the material in the Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual (2017), chapter 45; pp.662-663 about the official name of the Church
• Also my essay (2018): The Name of the Church

- The saints' light must be a standard for the nations (5)

- Notice that the light--not ourselves--is the standard (read 3 Nephi 18:24)

Standard (substantive): Something that is established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example to be followed.  A definite level or degree of quality that is proper and adequate for a specific purpose.  Something that is set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality.

Standard (adjective): Having qualities or attributes required by law or established by custom.  Regularly and widely available; readily supplied; not unusual or special.  Well-established and very familiar; not novel or experimental.  Having recognized and permanent value.  Grown in natural form; not trained (positioned or held) by a wall or support.

- Stakes are to provide defense and refuge (6) 

Read the material in the Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual (2017), chapter 45; pp.665-667 about Adam-ondi-Ahman

- John Taylor, John Page, Wilford Woodruff, and Willard Richards are called to the Quorum of the Twelve (6)

- Do you know how men are called to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles nowadays? Check this article

- The law of tithing under the law of consecration and stewardship: surplus property (consecration), plus one-tenth of annual interest (income and profits) 

- The Council of Disposition of Tithings

Read a Church audit report on any April General Conference (published in the May issue of the Ensign magazine) and you'll see a reference to this council

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