215. Latter Day Devotion today -- It is President Thomas S. Monson's 87th birthday!

Today is President Thomas S. Monson's 87th Birthday!  Also you can read below some things that happened on August 21st on different years in Church History.

For you that aren't aware, Pres. Monson has had a great hobby of raising and training pidgeons.

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DAILY DEVOTION
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We Need the Assistance of the Holy Ghost
Nauvoo, Illinois
August 21, 2014


SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY:
1 Nephi 10:9
"For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old, and as well in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round."


QUOTE OF THE DAY:  
Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow  
"We ought to understand---and I presume that we do generally---that the work which we have come into this life to perform cannot be done to the glory of God or to the satisfaction of ourselves merely by our own natural intelligence. We are dependent upon the Spirit of the Lord to aid us and to manifest to us from time to time what is necessary for us to accomplish under the peculiar circumstances that may surround us"(Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow, p. 78).

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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY:
August 21

1834 - In a response to Lyman Wight teaching that all sickness and cures were of the devil, the Prophet Joseph taught all disease is not of the devil and that if someone had faith to be healed, let them use it. However, if any believed that herbs, vegetables, medicines, etc. could help heal the sick, it would be proper to use them. He also sent Dr. Frederick G. Williams from Kirtland to Cleveland, Ohio, to help in caring and administering to the sick who had the plague in that city.

1838 - Two boys, sons of Gardner Snow and Frederick M. Vanleuven, were born in the Kirtland Camp. The decision was made to continue their journey to Missouri as soon as possible.

1840 - Benjamin Boyce and Noah Rogers escape from a Missouri Jail and return to Nauvoo. Brother Boyce records a testimony of their kidnaping, beating, and torture by the hands of a mob.

1843 - Brigham Young's daughter, Mary Ann Young, age six, died in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the same day her father arrives in New York during his mission to the east. The Prophet Joseph received a letter from Mr. J. Hall of Independence, Missouri, "breathing hard things against us as a people. I gave instructions to have them copied with some additional remarks, and sent to Governor Ford" (History of the Church, 5:538).

1927 - Thomas S. Monson, sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is born in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1999 - The Spokane Washington Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley.

2009 - The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple is dedicated by President Thomas S. Monson on the first of three days of dedication services. On the third day, August 23, the dedication services were broadcast by satellite to stake centers in Northern Utah.

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