Thoughts and stories, by Pal

The revelation on all worthy members having the Priesthood, was announced on June 9th, and that is the day that my oldest son and his wife were married in the Salt Lake Temple.  When we were driving to the wedding luncheon after the Temple ceremony, that was the talk of the day!  It was truly a memorable day, for more reasons than one! Found in the footnotes: 'Words would diminish the power' of the revelation on the priesthood by Lindsey Williams  | Jun. 05, 2020 Editor's note: Our bi-weekly Friday column, “ Found in the footnotes ,” explores some of the footnotes from remarks given by General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I frequently reflect on a quote by Elder David A. Bednar from a  February broadcast , “The longer I serve, the less satisfied I am with words.” Isn’t it interesting that the language of the Spirit—the universal language understood by every child of God—someti...

This insightful and inspiring article tells about the LDS Saints in Ghana during the time the Church was banned there, 1989/1990.   It truly shows the value of MINISTERING!  This is history I didn't know, and the saints there can be an example to all of us in these times! The power of ministering: How the enduring faith of members overcame 'The Freeze' in Ghana View 36 items Emelia Ahadjie, left, greets Juliet Akrong in Accra, Ghana, on Friday, April 20, 2018. Photo: Ravell Call, Deseret News . By Tad Walch Updated 17 MAY 2018 11:34 PM ACCRA, Ghana — Wielding machine guns in the midday summer sun, the soldiers invaded the mission home. The automatic weapons added fear to the bewilderment felt by mission leadership and staff. Minutes earlier during a lunch break, they learned from a radio broadcast that Ghana’s government had frozen all activities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “We couldn’t understand what that meant,...

This article was in the Saturday, June 1st, 2018, LDS Church News, and tells the story very well!  I love to hear about this! Baptism Beach—An African Symbol of How 1978 Revelation Changed the Church Contributed By Tad Walch, Deseret News staff writer 1 JUNE 2018 Some members of the Church visit the location where they were baptized in Cape Coast, Ghana, on Monday, April 23, 2018. In the foreground is John Dan Ewudzie. Photo by Ravell Call, Deseret News. For 14 years, Joseph William “Billy” Johnson longed to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but couldn’t.Cape Coast, Ghana, Converted by the Book of Mormon as a 30-year-old in 1964, he lived in West Africa 7,000 miles from Church headquarters, where there were no Mormon missionaries or priesthood holders. So Johnson wrote letters to successive Church presidents asking for missionaries. He built a large congregation of fellow believers in the town of Cape Coast, Ghana, on the gleaming sho...