Thoughts and stories, by Pal

For Blog #500 this is a special theme that has been on our minds lately, with the talk of being prepared (which is important at all times!).  It gives good counsel as we look forward to our upcoming General Conference just a week from this coming Saturday, and Sunday, October 3rd and 4th, 2015.  The important thing is to follow our Prophet and Apostles! 7 Things That Still Need to Happen Before the World Ends by Robert L. Millet  | From LDS Living Makes You Think  In recent months there seems to have been an unusual amount of hubbub regarding how close we are to the end of the world. But here are 7 things that still need to happen before the Second Coming. This seems to happen in a cycle, about every 30 or 40 years. I remember very well attending the October 1972 general conference and hearing President Harold B. Lee chasten and warn the holders of the priesthood about paying too much attention to what he called “loose wri...

Hiram  Miles Dayton was born 10 October 1821 at Welchfield, Ohio. He was the eldest son of  eleven children of Hiram and Permelia Bundy Dayton.  His parents had been prosperous farmers and stock raisers, and had a beautiful home in  Parkman, Ohio. During their prosperity Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, came to Parkman and taught  them the Gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They were converted and baptized  Feb. 18, 1832. After this, even their friends and neighbors heaped persecutions upon them. Hiram  Miles was a boy of eleven years and it was hard for him to understand this sudden hostility of his  associates. Following the new church, the family moved to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1834 and went through the  many persecutions there. In 1838 they moved to Davis County, Missouri, then to Far West, Jackson County, Missouri. They were driven out of Missouri into Illinois. The Prophet Joseph Smith had purchased a large...

I am deciding something that I believe is wise.  I have truly enjoyed writing this blog, and in it I have written several family history stories which are already in the books we have published and given to our children and grand-children.  I realize they are very busy, and don't have much time to peruse these books.  Some of them have told me they really love these stories, and haven't known they already have them, -- but didn't know where to find them in the books.  I'll try to put pages in, so all you posterity can find them in our books! Wayne and I have been the Stake Indexing leaders in our Stake for over a year.  Wayne does a very lot of indexing, but I do some other things also, and haven't been doing as much indexing as I did before I began writing the blog.  I believe I need to be more diligent doing that, and so I will cut down the number of blogs I do -- each week I plan to do at least 3 blogs, probably Monday, Wednesday, and Friday .  Su...