The Cell Phone Analogy

Dear MacPherson teenagers, and others,   I thought I'd share with you this analogy I came up with  for one of our recent Institute classes. I first asked the students these questions about their cell phones(called mobile phones here). How many of you carry your cell phones almost everywhere you go? How many of you check your cell phones many times a day for messages on them? How many of you pull out your cell phones when you have nothing to do and use them? How many of you tell others what you have just learned from your cell phones? How many of you panic if you can't find your cell phone?   The answers where almost unanimous that they did all of the above!   I them asked the very same questions, except I substituted SCRIPTURES for cell phone? Very few hands were raised! I smiled and said, "Is there an important message here about where our hearts are?   I pointed our that in medieval times many regular members of the Catholic Church that were caught having or reading the bible would be imprisoned, excommunicated, tied to a stake, had their bibles  tied to and hung around their necks, and burned at the stake. Many good people died this way. We take for granted the PRIVILIGE  we have to read and study the scriptures whenever we want to.      I wonder what kind of people we would be like if we used our scriptures a much as we use our cell phone?                                                        Love Elder Mac