“No matter whether you think John Lefgren, Wayne May, Kevin Price, Mike and Betty LaFontaine, Mike Baker, Valerie Steimle, Mike Stahlman, Jeff Green and the others at Heartland Research are doing a significant work, or if they are looking for something that is not there, or think they are amazing and dedicated to finding truth, your are correct in your opinion. Your opinion is your own and no one can change it but you.
Based on information, study, research and a lot of prayer, you and I can know for sure as well. We are all blessed with the Light of Christ, and the ability to use reasoning and common sense. Only those who put their entire focus in something and really want to know, to those the Lord will answer their prayers of faith if He feels you need that witness or not. See my blog titled Light of Christ-Common Sense-Personal Revelation here.
I believe in what the Heartland Group is trying to do. They are faithful Saints who love the Lord and they are endeavoring to bring things from the ground that will (help validate, or reshape ones focus, or get a person to look deeper) into the truth of the Book of Mormon to receive a Spiritual confirmation. The Book of Mormon needs only validation of the Spirit which I have received and which John and Wayne have received.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said, “…Truly rock-ribbed faith and uncompromised conviction comes with its most complete power when it engages our head as well as our heart… Truth borne by the Holy Spirit comes with, in effect, two manifestations, two witnesses if you will—the force of fact as well as the force of feeling… I believe God intends us to find and use the evidence He has given—reasons, if you will—which affirm the truthfulness of His work… Evidence is still evidence even if it is not immediately observable… “My testimony to you tonight is that the gospel is infallibly true and that a variety of infallible proofs supporting that assertion will continue to come until Jesus descends as the ultimate infallible truth of all. Our testimonies aren’t dependent on evidence—we still need that spiritual confirmation in the heart of which we have spoken—but not to seek for and not to acknowledge intellectual, documentable support for our belief when it is available is to needlessly limit an otherwise incomparably strong theological position and deny us a unique, persuasive vocabulary in the latter-day arena of religious investigation and sectarian debate.” The Greatness of the Evidence By Elder Jeffrey R. Holland August 16, 2017
This quote by Elder Holland is very significant. The Heartland Research group along with each of us individually must seek for “the force of fact as well as the force of feeling“ as Elder Holland has said. They don’t need to have physical evidence that the most correct book is indeed true, they just seek additional answers that very well could be shown to assist others, if the good Lord desires us to know them. By faith are all things possible. It never hurts to attempt and it never hurts to try hard, in the end it is always up to what the Lord wants to reveal and does reveal that makes all the difference. The Light of Christ gives me hope and desire to look into truth, Common Sense tells me if I should pursue that truth and Personal Revelation may be given to me PERSONALLY, not necessarily for the benefit of others or for the benefit of the Church, but just to assist me in my journey on this earth.
“And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father! And now, if your joy will be great with one soul that you have brought unto me into the kingdom of my Father, how great will be your joy if you should bring many souls unto me” D&C 18:15-16. I can also say if just one artifact or one pile of dirt or one huge temple is found and assists just ONE Person and it assists that person exercise faith into believing, and common sense into striving towards, how great will be John and Wayne’s reward in heaven if just one soul is helped by this physical evidence.” Rian Nelson
God Moves in a Mysterious Way
Heartland Research seeks to find the truth as it comes out of the ground. In November, we will continue to use scanning technologies to measure magnetic and electric forces from anomalies of ancient human habitation found in the ground. Split-Spoon Sample We will soon have to drill core samples to validate what we see from the scans on the digital maps. With this in mind, three weeks ago, we contacted a drilling supply company to see if they could help us in our search. Last Thursday we met a representative of a large company that has offices around the country. The representative came to the meeting well prepared to discuss Zarahemla. He had studied what we are doing as reported on the web. He said he is willing to go to Montrose in November to demonstrate how he thinks we should take spilt-spoon samples from the fields to find charcoal samples for radiocarbon-14 dating. We told him that we intended to use technologies from Russia to identify specific spots for sampling. The representative reminded us that eventually, we must get into the dirt, and that core drilling would be the best way to start. At the end of the lunch, we thanked the representative for his time and interest. We asked why he had such a high level of interest in what we were trying to do. He said that his company has extensive experience working with temple foundations. We asked how is that? He said that they are responsible for supplying all the drilling equipment for the new foundation of the Salt Lake Temple. We all agreed that temple foundations are essential. What better way to start the discovery of Zarahemla than with the foundation of an ancient temple that is more than 2,000 years old. On Sunday morning, in General Conference, President Russell M. Nelson talked about how the Salt Lake Temple foundation will last through the Millennium. As he talked we thought of how the Zarahemla Temple foundation has been in the ground for at least 2,000 years and that it too would last through the Millennium. It is mysterious how the very same drilling specialists who are involved with the re-enforcement of the Salt Lake Temple are now coming to Zarahemla to help us find the foundation of the temple that was used by King Benjamin and Samuel the Lamanite.  Salt Lake Temple – New Foundation  Will Stand Through the Millenium ©2021 Heart Land Research Group | 2681 Milan Street Easton, PA 18045 |