Thoughts and stories, by Pal

This year we will be studying The Book of Mormon in Sunday School.  Last year beginning on August 8, 2015, in Stake Conference, our Stake President counseled us to each read The Book of Mormon at the rate of 10 pages a day, and we would be done by the end of September, just before October Conference.  In that same conference we had Elder David A. Bednar as a visiting authority, and I wrote about his messages, and his exhortation to follow our Stake President, saying that in our stake he is the same as the President of the Church.  (See Blog # 484, my notes about that conference. If you go to "labels" on the right and click on Elder David A. Bednar it goes right to it.) That reading of 10 pages a day was truly an amazing experience.  The book and its story came to life, and the continuity of the history became more clear.  The Book of Mormon is clearly the KEYSTONE of our religion, and it is so important to read it daily!  Right now my husband Wayne an...

What Happened to the 3 Witnesses?  They NEVER did deny their testimonies! What Happened to the 3 Witnesses? by Jannalee Rosner, in LDS Living The names of Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris are familiar to most of us, notably because of their role as witnesses to the reality of the Book of Mormon. (Note: the three witnesses, unlike the eight witnesses, were shown the plates by a heavenly messenger, not Joseph Smith.) But though their testimonies are still printed in the beginning of every copy of the Book of Mormon, all three of these men left the Church at some point—only two returned. Find out what happened to the three witnesses after they signed their names to their testimonies. Oliver Cowdery Before Oliver Cowdery first came in contact with the gospel in 1829 while boarding with the Smith family as a school teacher. He quickly embraced the story of The First Vision and found himself eager to be a scribe for Joseph during th...