Without Disclosing My True Identity
interviewed about the crimes: Police Detective Don Bell interviewed him at 1:12 in the afternoon on
October 17, the day after the bomb exploded in Hofmann’s car. ‘Elder Pinnock, this is the deal,’ Bell
began, notebook in hand. ‘This is a homicide investigation. Do you know Mr. Hofmann?’ Pinnock
paused and reflected a moment. ‘No, I don’t believe I do.’” (Sandra Tanner and Rocky Hulse, “The
Mormon Murders: Twenty-Five Years Later,” Salt Lake City Messenger, Oct. 2010, Utah Lighthouse
Ministry, 2011. Utah Lighthouse™ Ministry, 12 Jun. 2011
http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no115.htm.)
(^35) Compare D&C, 121:37.
(^36) BOM, Mormon 8:28.
(^37) Compare D&C, 121:37–9.
(^38) BOM, Alma 12:9–11; 3 Nephi 26:6–10.
(^39) Compare BOM, 2 Nephi 28:21.
(^40) BOM, 2 Nephi 28:14.
(^41) Compare D&C, 121:35. See also SNS, 117.
(^42) BOM, Alma 12:13–14.
(^43) BOM, Alma 12:15.
(^44) DHC, 2:180, et seq.; D&C, 18.
(^45) DHC, 2:186–7 (185–9) & notes.
(^46) DHC, 2:201, et seq.
(^47) DHC, 1:407.
(^48) D&C, 20:15; BOM, 3 Nephi 26:10.
(^49) Compare D&C, 58:9; 84:31; 88:119, 137; 109:2, 8; Exodus 34:26; Joshua 6:24;
“Over the door to the temple appears the tribute, ‘Holiness to the Lord.’ When you enter
any dedicated temple, you are in the house of the Lord.” (Boyd K. Packer, “The Holy Temple,”
Ensign, Feb. 1995: 32);
“The temple is literally the house of the Lord. It is a place where God instructs His children
and prepares them to return to His presence. It is a place where we are united as families and taught
the ways of the Lord.” (“Houses of the Lord,” Ensign, Oct. 2010: 4);
“This building on its east facade has the words ‘The House of the Lord.’ ...Dedicated temples
are sacred places where the risen Savior may come. ...In them we can make the covenants which help
us to come unto Him in this life and which will permit Him, if we keep our promises to Him, to take
us home to the Father, with our families, in the world to come. ...[T]he workmen [on this
temple]...toiled away...for Him, for His house. They knew, as I do, that He lives and that He asked
His people to gather and to be worthy to build Him a house, that He might direct them and bless
them and their families.” (Henry B. Eyring, “Special Witnesses of Christ,” Ensign, Apr. 2001: 11);
“We returned only a few days ago from Manila in the Philippines. There...stands a beautiful
and sacred temple. Here, as elsewhere, there is incised in the stone of one of the towers the words
‘Holiness to the Lord. The House of the Lord.’ By the thousands they came...[a] all joined in
presenting to the Lord...this beautiful house as his abode. (Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Cornerstones of
Our Faith,” Ensign, Nov. 1984: 52–3);
See also Gordon B. Hinckley, “Temples and Temple Work,” Ensign, Feb. 1982: 2–5; Howard W.
Hunter, “The Great Symbol of Our Membership,” Ensign, Oct. 1994: 2–5; Gordon B. Hinckley, “Why
These Temples?” Ensign, Oct. 2010: 21–7; Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft,
1980); and James E. Talmage, The House of the Lord (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1912).
(^50) Compare BOM, 2 Nephi 28:14.
(^51) JST, Matthew 6:38; compare D&C, 65:5.
(^52) D&C, 90:23; 104:80–1; 111:5; 115:13; 119:2, corresponding to DHC, 1:329–31; 2:54–60; 2:465–
6; 3:23–5; 3:44 respectively.
“After finishing the house of the Lord [temple in Kirtland]...the church found itself
something like fifteen or twenty thousand dollars in debt. ...As the house had been built by faith, as