Over the past few days I have watched the news and heard from many friends, the Republican Convention theme this year is amazing. We as members of the Church in this great United States of America couldn’t have come up with a better theme ourselves.
“Honoring the Great American Story” August 24-27, 2020
Monday “The Land of Promise”
Tuesday “Land of Opportunity”
Wednesday “Land of Heroes”
Thursday “Land of Greatness”
I will share my reasons below of why I am so excited about our government today. I still believe 80% of Democrats and Republicans are terrible, but we do have hope. God is still in control of this great PROMISED LAND!
Republican convention theme revealed: ‘Honoring the Great American Story’
The Trump campaign on Thursday previewing the themes with GOP lawmakers
Will in-person political conventions permanently disappear?
EXCLUSIVE: The theme of the upcoming 2020 GOP convention will be “Honoring the Great American Story” and will highlight America’s “greatness, opportunity and President Donald Trump’s bold leadership,” Fox News has learned.
The Trump campaign on Thursday afternoon had back to back phone calls with Republican members of Congress, previewing the themes for the 2020 Republican National Convention, a source familiar with the calls told Fox News.
The source told Fox News that the GOP’s convention theme is in “stark contrast to the doom and gloom message we expect to hear from career politicians at the DNC convention.”
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Fox News has learned that the first day of the convention, Monday Aug. 24, will focus on “the Land of Promise,” Tuesday will focus on the “Land of Opportunity,” Wednesday will focus on the “Land of Heroes,” and Thursday on the “Land of Greatness.”
Fox News has learned that Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., will speak at the convention.Video
Other speakers include Tanya Weinreis, owner of Mountain Mudd Espresso in Montana, a local espresso drive-thru business with 12 kiosks and about 50 employees.
Weinreis received the PPP loan through her local lender and talked about how significant it is for her business during this time.
“The loss of sales was scary—I was nervous this would ruin the business. The large corporations like Starbucks could withstand it, but I didn’t know if we could,” Weinreis said. “[The PPP loan] will allow us to continue paying our employees, as well as covering other operational costs like rent and utilities. Now we can give back to the community in a meaningful way.”
Also, Sergeant of the St. Louis Metro Police Department, Ann Dorn, and wife of slain retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, who was killed while protecting a pawn shop during a night of violent looting across St. Louis, will speak at the convention.
The discussions come as the convention details remain in flux, and as the campaign and the Republican National Committee continue to adjust their plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Last month, the Trump campaign and the RNC dramatically downscaled the convention by canceling planned celebratory events in Jacksonville, Fla., amid a surge in cases in the state, and refocused their attention to convention business back in the original convention site of Charlotte, N.C.
Meanwhile, the RNC last month said “a few hundred delegates” will be in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Aug. 24 for convention business, which will include the formal nomination of the president.
As Fox News reported in June, the delegates convening in Charlotte will not be voting on a 2020 party platform or even re-adopting the 2016 platform. Since there will be no convening of a platform committee, the 2016 platform will remain in effect. https://static.foxnews.com/static/orion/html/video/iframe/vod.html?v=20200810203603#uid=fnc-embed-1
My Opinion
As I found out that President Trump will be Featured each day of the GOP Convention, I wanted to briefly write down why I love President Trump’s leadership. He has amazed me. When he first joined the race in 2015, I thought he was just another man full of promises he will never keep. I saw him with a huge ego and a desire only for self. I hated his overt agressive behavior and ignorant remarks.
All of that has changed, (he still has a huge ego) because Pres Trump gets the results that my family and I want and need. He loves and serves others and loves God. Without much thought I came up with so many reasons why I support Trump. As I wrote, many other items kept coming to mind and I could have easily written 50 more. That is amazing. Not since Pres Reagan have I respected a President as I do now. I think Trump will go down as one of the best Presidents we ever had.
My List
Made Colleges debate both sides of issues or won’t fund them.
Protects my right to bear arms
Favors the right to life and opposes the partial birth abortion bill
Sisters of the Poor won their lawsuit not forcing them to use contraception
Israel now has its capital in Jerusalem
Israel and UAE have normalized relations
The wall is being built and immigration is granted orderly.
Over 80% of small business and workers received a tax cut
Reduced corporate taxes
We may choose our own health care
Respects the right to protest but not to riot and destroy
Is against sanctuary cities and letting illegals be released
Crime reform bill. First time arrested citizens have opportunity to succeed
Veterens may get health care from anywhere
Right to try bill. People may choose to try a drug not approved by Govt.
Took no money from donors for his campaign.
Killed leading terrorists and wants to get us out of war
America comes first in ALL things.
Left the international organizations that don’t pay their fair share
Left the Paris Climate Accord
Loves families and emphasises a fathers presence
Against Gay marriage but believes in equal rights
Wants small government, more local city and state representaion.
Is holding China and Russia and Iran and North Korea accountable
Respects our right to worship as we please.
Lowest unemplyment for African Americans and other minorities
Economy best ever. See stocks
Wants to open business safely and is sensible with the virus
Wants voter ID enforced and is against general mail in of ballots
Believes God has endowed us with rights to life, libery and property.
Doesn’t need governments money or power.
Keeps his promises on what he said before elected.
Has created self reliance on need for oil and approves fracking
Supports law enforcement.
I believe all lives are important in the eyes of God. He loves us all.
Now think about this. Name two or three things Pres Clinton, Bush, or Obama did for us? What has Biden of Hillary done with their 40 years in government? It’s a challenge to name even one accomplishment for each person. The choice is obvious of who I will vote for in November. It’s not even a close call.
President Benson gave a most wonderful talk below, that everyone of us should share with all those we know. His love for the Promised Land of the United States is such a testimony to me. This talk has strengthened my love for our country and helped me understand our role to spread the Gospel to the world. We have made a Covenant with the Lord to share the Gospel and if we don’t we will be held accountable. Those on other lands of the world have also been blessed as the Lord loves them as much as He love us. President Benson in my opinion, makes it very clear that this land of the United States is the Promised Land spoken of in the Book of Mormon.
President Benson said, “The Constitution of the United States has served as a model for many nations and is the oldest constitution in use today. “I established the Constitution of this land,” said the Lord, “by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose” (D&C 101:80). For centuries the Lord kept America hidden in the hollow of His hand until the time was right to unveil her for her destiny in the last days. “It is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations,” said Lehi, “for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance” (2 Ne. 1:8)… Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathers and their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel. Recall what our Savior Jesus Christ said nearly two thousand years ago when He visited this promised land: “For it is wisdom in the Father that they should be established in this land, and be set up as a free people by the power of the Father, that these things might come forth” (3 Ne. 21:4). America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord’s latter-day base of operations for His restored church…
Only in this foreordained land, under its God-inspired Constitution and the resulting environment of freedom, was it possible to have established the restored church…
“Two great American Christian civilizations—the Jaredites and the Nephites—were swept off this land because they did not “serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ” (Ether 2:12). What will become of our civilization?… I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church—among others—men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution.
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed His stamp of approval upon it.
I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.
We, the blessed beneficiaries of the Constitution, face difficult days in America, “a land which is choice above all other lands. (Ether 2:10)” Ezra Taft Benson “Our Divine Constitution Ensign Oct 1987
