This weeks assignment  I chose to study the seventy in Luke 10:1-24. I am amazed by what I learn each week. I had no idea Jesus had set up the Seventy when he was on earth. 

The Lord counseled his Seventy in how to do missionary work there. He instructed them to go by two's and he warned them that it would not be easy, that they would be like "lambs among wolves" (Luke 10:3).  He told them to bless the houses they enter and to eat and drink with them and to "eat such things as are set before you" (Luke 10:8). He asked them to heal whoever was sick, and testify of God and Jesus. He also told them to warn of those cities who will reject them.

Interestingly enough, the 6th Article of Faith says, "We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth." This is a great testimony to me because of how Jesus set up His church in Jerusalem is just how it is set up now. I always knew of the apostles and prophets and their set up in Christ's day, but learning that He even had a seventy blew me out of the water! That just affirmed my testimony even more of this Article of Faith and how it stands as a testament of the truthfulness of this gospel. Similarly, we had Seventy now who are all over the earth who help church efforts and spread to gospel, just like Jesus instructed them back then. Also, the Seventy in Jesus' time we taught to know their people and to eat and spend time with them that will allow it and to teach them in their home, much like our Seventy do now all around the globe. Later in chapter 10, The seventy report back to Jesus that they had the power of the Lord with them and that they were successful in taming demons and glorifying their God, much like they do today with the Priesthood. 

The Church Website had a great link to further explain the Seventy's duties. that shows how the primary mission of one called to a position in the Seventy, is to travel the world and proclaim the gospel. There should be 7 presidents chosen out of the Seventy. They are also called to expand their own Seventy as much as needed.