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Epistles and Handouts

Read our TESTIMONIES to the world!

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SUOMEN KIELI

Before you start reading this web page, it is important for you to understand that we created it to help share these experiences and writings with our own children. We never intended it for public view. However many of my nieces and nephews and other extended family asked to have access. Because we also have many friends who wanted to be able to share it we have placed it here without a password. If you are not a member of our family or close friends, we don't mind if you read these materials if you do not use them in an inappropriate way and remembering that they were created as a part of our personal journals, not as a public display of experiences. We ask that you respect that if you use any of these materials.

You are welcome to copy any of these materials and use it as you see fit. All we ask is that if any of them have a copyright on them that you then agree in making a copy that you will not remove the name of the author, you will not charge money to give copies of it to anyone else, that you will not change the information in any way, and you will not reproduce it without printing the copyright information on it (which would void our copyright). We have only copyrighted some of the material to keep someone else from reproducing the material and selling it. We give you our permission to copy any material found on the "Cordell and Janice Vail's Epistles and Handouts Web Pages" if you will agree to those terms. It is our hope that these materials will be of value to you and your family in helping you be better missionaries and stronger more faithful Later-day Saints in the same way that we hope it will be a strength to my own children, extended family and friends.

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PUBLISHED BOOKS

In Harms Way: Divine Intervention On The Battle Field
The stories of how the prompting's of the spirit saved my life and the lives of all my men many times as I served as an Infantry Platoon Leader in Vietnam. Also the missionary experiences I had while serving in the military.
Read The Book

You Can't Fool The Chickens
The life's lesson I learned from my son about how you can fool your friends but you can not fool God in the life you live.
Read The Story

Water That Got To The End Of The Row
The stories of how our family has converted hundreds of people and how you can too, especially wayward children.
Read The Book

Sunday Sermons
A weekly spiritual message sent to our family
Read the Sermons

Understanding Patriarchal Priesthood
Well here it is. The first copy of my book Understanding Patriarchal Priesthood. I have been working on this paper since 1991. It is not done. This is still just a rough draft ...... be patient some day I may actually have it done. But for now here is at least what I have in PDF format so you can sure open it.. My notes on this subject are eleven three ring binders, so this is just a summary of all my notes put into the form of a book. I have given a 2 hour fireside on this subject over 200 times so there is a lot of input from the people I have taught as well as my own work here.
Click here to read the Rough Draft copy

Home Work
A book I am writing on jobs you can do from your home
Read the rough draft

Goal Achieving
This is the work book for my all day seminar on goal achieving
My Turn To Win: The Secret Of Excellence 15th Printing

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CHARTS
Go to charts index
These are the beginning of my collection of charts that I use as handouts.
There are 100's of them to come. So I will just add them a few at a time until I get them all.

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HANDOUTS

Here are the Handouts we have entered in so far:
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The True Nature Of The Godhead As Found In The King James Bible
LDS -TRITHEISM Godhead Compared To Trilogy - New Updated version 2

The Trilogy Doctrine As Seen By Mormons
This is the best I have ever read. It is by my friend Edward Hess

Who is this Christ in the Bible?
Many people say Mormons are not Christians. Here is what I believe.

Who is the God of the Bible?
My research on the nature of God from the Bible.

Questions on being saved from the book of ACTS in the Bible.
Here are the questions I would ask you about being saved if we studied the book of ACTS together.
Ten Keys To Reactivation
A handout I gave out at the Federal Way WA Stake Leadership Meeting 15 May 1999

Fasting & Fast Offerings Handout
This is a handout I use for teaching classes and giving firesides about Fasting. It has a few of the best quotes from my 100 + page research paper on Fasting and Fast Offerings

ON BEING SAVED
A series of letters from Christians to help me understand what it means to be "SAVED" or "BORN" again. In particular with reference to still being able to sin and go to heaven if you are "SAVED".

Why Our Family Does Missionary Work
Some of our most favorite scriptures!

Repentance
The things I have learned about it.

Stewardship
Definition of the word STEWARDSHIP as we use it in the Church.
A handout used in Federal Way 11th Deaf Branch Gospel Doctrine class

Moral Standards
Do you have personal convictions or someone else's restrictions?
The Deaf News thought for the month of August 1997 by Cordell Vail

4 Kinds of People
I have found that there are basically four kinds of people in the church.

4 Keys
Four Keys to help you discern false revelations

10 Steps
The Ten Steps that Normally Lead To Adultery

The "PHENOMENON OF PASSION"
WHY do we often say we won't
yet later, in a heat of passion, we do????

Habits
This is my first handout on "How to Overcome Bad Habits"

Ordained a Seventy
A letter to my son David about the feelings that come from the different offices of the priesthood as you are ordained.
American Morality
My commentary on the morality of American...
YOU BE THE JUDGE

My interpretation of 1 Cor 11:1-15
ANCIENT CUSTOMS IN THE BIBLE:
"Why A Woman Prays With Her HEAD^(face) Covered"

My interpretation of D&C 58:42-43
When we repent what does it mean to "FORSAKE" the sin?
PASSING BY THE ANGELS
Something to think about next time you are being tempted to do something wrong!
Fully Functioning Ward Mission Program
This is what we did to organize the missionary work in our ward
Satan's Power of Deception
A dream I had once about how Satan tries to make things that are not real look, seem and even feel real.
IF- THEN
The scriptures are filled with promises that say IF you just do this.... THEN you will be blessed with....
Wow! That was such a wonderful discovery for me.

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HOW TO DO MISSIONARY WORK
AND ENJOY IT!

GO TO MY MISSIONARY WEB PAGE IN ENGLISH

GO TO MY MISSIONARY WEB PAGE IN FINNISH

GO TO MY MISSIONARY WEB PAGE IN JAPANESE

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STORIES BY OTHERS

Roll Playing By David Vail
My two youngest sons were nearly destroyed spiritually by roll playing.
It came so silently we hardly knew it had arrived until it was almost too late. Read David's solemn warning to others about Roll Playing!!!
True story by Nina Ferguson
As a child to save herself she jumped into a fire where she could not see her dad but only hear his voice.

THE PHONE STORY
You may have already read this. It is a wonderful story about the influence you can have on others. My friend Greg made a really cool web page out of the story. It is worth going to take a look. Use your BACK button to come back here after you read it.

SWITCHES
This is one of the best talks I have ever read
It is by the Gordon B. Hinckley.
He talks about the impact
little bad decisions we make can have on the rest of our life.
My Dad The Drill Sergeant
A poem written by my son Aaron about the difficulty for sons to be disciplined by their dads.

He Took My Whipping For Me
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