Thoughts and stories, by Pal

  I'm posting two articles today, as they are both related, and both appeared in the Meridian Magazine today.  They both quote Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, and others.   I want to go on record here in my blog, and anywhere else I speak or write, saying:  I DO support the brethren, and Church teachings, and the Prophets!  I believe all the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints teaches, and every true principle we are taught! I am grateful for my faithful pioneer ancestors, and I want to live as they did -- true to the teachings and principles of this TRUE Church! The Middle Ground is Disappearing By  Dan Ellsworth  · August 23, 2021 The following first appeared  in Public Square Magazine . We are witnessing an ever greater movement toward polarity. The middle-ground options will be removed from us as Latter-day Saints. The middle of the road will be withdrawn.  If you are treading water in the current of a river, you will go somewhere....

The Angel Moroni’s Ongoing Role in the Restoration: Dramatically Announced by an Earthquake By  Ronald P. Millett  · April 14, 2020 Since his appearance to the 17-year-old Joseph Smith on the night of September 21, 1823, the Angel Moroni has been a central figure and symbol of the ongoing Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During 127 years atop the tallest spire of the Salt Lake Temple, the beautiful golden Angel Moroni statue had even survived without damage a F2 magnitude tornado in 1999 aimed directly at Temple Square. [1] Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake Strikes On March 18, 2020, just after the Salt Lake Temple seismic upgrade and renovation had begun on January 2, 2020, a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Utah centered near Magna, just ten miles away from the Temple. [2] The Angel Moroni statue had seemed immune to any signs of weather or seismic related damage for over 100 years. However, after this earthquake in 202...