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This is one of the most amazing true stories I have read, of faith and hope, and patience! Preaching the Gospel in Africa Before the Priesthood Revelation By Maurine Proctor  · May 30, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Leading up to the June 1 st  LDS Church commemoration of the 40 th  anniversary of the Revelation on the Priesthood, Meridian Magazine has been featuring a series of articles celebrating the event. These have included profiles of the people deeply affected as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how this revelation came to be.  Here is the latest profile of a truly remarkable man who brought the Gospel to Ghana in an unbelievable way. Though Brother Johnson passed away in 2012, the following was taken from an interview Meridian Magazine conducted with him in 2004, near the time of the Accra Ghana Temple dedication.  A World We Don’t Know Driving down the road from Accra to Cape Coast, we are able to hav

Another chapter in the fascinating story of the Priesthood Revelation!  It was announced on the radio on the day our son Wayne got married in the Salt Lake Temple!  On the way to the Wedding Luncheon we all heard it, and it was the talk of the luncheon!  That is one way we can remember what day it was announced.  It was officially approved the day before, June 8, 1978. Hallelujah!: Celebrating 40 Years Since the Priesthood Revelation By Maurine Proctor  · May 31, 2018 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE If you had already been born and were a member of the Church, June 9, 1978, you remember in vivid detail exactly where you were the minute you heard that President Spencer W. Kimball had received a revelation extending the priesthood to all worthy males. Elder Marion D. Hanks, an emeritus General Authority who was there said, “Hallelujah. I thank God I lived long enough to see this day.” Church historian, Leonard Arrington, sai