"The home-study seminary program is designed to help you strengthen your understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ and apply its teachings in your daily life through a study of the scriptures. For your study this school year, you will first complete reading assignments from the scripture text for this course—the Book of Mormon—and then you will complete the individual lessons. Once a week you will meet with a seminary teacher to submit your work and participate in a weekly lesson. Seminary is a daily religious education program. Prayerfully studying your scriptures should be a daily practice. You will need to work on your seminary assignments each school day, even though you will not attend a seminary class each day. There are 32 units to be completed during the course. The reading chart on page viii shows what you should study for each unit. Your teacher will help you understand when each unit is due. The lessons in this study guide should each take about 30 minutes to complete, in addition to your daily scripture study. You should have two scripture study journals (or two notebooks), separate from your personal journal, in which you will write the assignments from the study guide activities. Each week that you meet with your teacher, you should turn in the scripture study journal containing the completed assignments from the study guide activities you completed for that week. Your teacher will read and respond to the assignments and return that scripture study journal to you the following week. You could also write your responses on paper in a loose-leaf binder and turn in the pages you did that week. Then, when your teacher returns the pages, you could put them back into the notebook."

This manual is a resource to help seminary teachers prepare lessons from the scriptures. It provides 160 lessons that contain teaching suggestions, doctrines and principles, and scripture mastery helps. In addition, there are 32 lessons for teacher of home-study classes that correspond to The Book of Mormon Study Guide for Home-Study Seminary Students.

This manual was written as the course curriculum for home-study seminary students. It contains writing assignments for each of the 32 units. It also contains insights, images, and doctrines and principles to help students with their individual study.

It is 1973 and Charlie Lawrence is a Vietnam vet who wants to put the conflict in southeast Asia behind him and get on with life back in America. Unfortunately, it’s just not that easy. Despite a faith strong enough to refute false theology and stand against popular values, there is no question that Charlie, a proud Green Beret, is struggling to readjust to civilian life. Troubled by his traumatic memories of a haunting war in the jungle, Charlie makes his way to South Texas where he is offered a job on Ramon Francisco Cantu Ybarra’s cattle ranch. As he acclimates to his new role on the ranch that allows him a welcome escape from civilization, Charlie begins making friends and spreading the Word of God. But when fortune changes and he agrees to an arranged marriage with a woman he’s never met, Charlie soon discovers that trusting in God’s plan is harder than he thinks. In this touching novel, a Vietnam vet attempting to adapt to civilian life takes a job on a ranch and agrees to a nonconventional marriage, challenging his faith in ways he never imagined.