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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 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 C...

                            More beautiful thoughts for the day! August 26, 2017 Persecution SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Matthew 5:11-12 "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." QUOTE OF THE DAY Joseph Smith "When I do the best I can---when I am accomplishing the greatest good, then the most evils and wicked surmisings are got up against me. . . . He that will war the true Christian warfare against the corruptions of these last days will have wicked men and angels of devils, and all the infernal powers of darkness continually arrayed against him. . . . Shall a man be considered bad, when men speak evil of him? No. If a man stands and opposes the world ...