I love Christmas! It's such a wonderful time of year. I'd like to share this special Christmas video with you today. It's a perfect way to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season.
Today I'd like to share some photos from our visit to the museum.
This is the center atrium on the main floor. The museum consists of three stories. By the way, admission to this museum is free. How awesome is that!?
Quote from Job 12:7 above the door to the hallway that leads to exhibits: "...but ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee: and the fowls of the air and they shall tell thee"
Another photo of the door and hallway leading to exhibits. The doorway is so beautiful with those grand columns.
If you look closely at the photo above, you can see The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum Mission Statement on the wall. I took a close-up photo of it and here it is.
In case it's difficult to read, here is what it says:
The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum Mission Statement
The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University is a dynamic repository and trustee for a remarkable group of biological collections. These collections are used to celebrate the role of Jesus Christ as Creator, while enhancing student learning and mentoring and promoting faculty teaching and research. They also serve as a unique venue for inviting the public and scientific community to explore and contemplate intricate biological relationships and processes
The "Into Africa" exhibit.
I found an interesting video about the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum online. It's narrated by Matt Meese, one of the stars of Studio C. To watch the video, click on the link below.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland described why Jesus
is able to succor those who are tempted:“When
Christ bids [us] to yield, to submit, to obey the Father, He knows how to help
us do that. He has walked that way, asking [us] to do what He has done. He has
made it safer. He has made it very much easier for [our] travel. … He knows
where the sharp stones and the stumbling blocks lie and where the thorns and
the thistles are the most severe. He knows where the path is perilous, and He
knows which way to go when the road forks and nightfall comes. He knows this
because He has suffered ‘pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind …
that he may know … how to succor his people according to their infirmities’
(Alma 7: 11-12). To succor means ‘to run to.’ … Christ will run to [us], and is
running even now, if [we] will but receive the extended arm of His mercy."“To
those who stagger or stumble, He is there to steady and strengthen us. In the
end He is there to save us, and for all this He gave His life. However dim our
days … may seem, they have been a lot darker for the Savior of the world (“Therefore,
What?” [Church Educational System Conference on the New Testament, Aug. 8,
2000], 9; si.lds.org).
As I read this quote, I was particularly struck by the definition that "to succor" means "to run to." The thought of Christ running to help us is so comforting, so touching, so wonderful.
I'm so very grateful for Jesus Christ and for His divine mission here on earth. I'm thankful for His loving kindness and mercy.
I was watching BYUtv yesterday and happened to catch the last half of the wonderful movie "17 Miracles" by T.C. Christensen. I've seen this movie before and I love it. It's powerful and moving. It's based on actual events that took place as the Willie Handcart Company traveled from Iowa City, Iowa to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1856.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I visited several museums on BYU's campus last July. One of the museums my family members and I visited was the BYU Museum of Paleontology.
The museum is open Monday through Friday, 9 AM - 5 PM. Admission is free.
Here are some pictures from our visit.
Unfortunately, I don't know the names of the dinosaurs in the photos above and below.
But I do know the name of this dinosaur with the very large teeth. It's a Torvosaurus tanneri.
The very large dinosaur with the long neck and tail in the photo below actually doesn't have a name yet. The informational plaque said "Not yet named."
