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This was posted by Brian Mickelson 4 days ago, on March 19, 2014.  I felt it had such inspired ideas that I kept it.  I hope it will give insight to you and inspiration.  There are many points on how to improve your own life, and also insights on working with others.  Brother Mickelson has been a bishop and institute teacher, and has gained a lot of wisdom.   Happy Sunday to you all -- New post on  Brian Mickelson.... 27 Principles I Learned While Serving in the LDS Church… by  BJM It has been nine years since I was called to be a bishop and about three since I was released. Those were busy, happy, sometimes lonely, often fun, and long days and times. I remember that season of our lives very, very positively. Some time in the middle of all of that I started making a list of leadership principles I was noticing and learning. As the months went on I continued adding to the list. A few items have been added since I was released. Bu...

  Today, I'm posting pictures of various family members, with a short description about each photo.  I hope you'll enjoy them!   This is a photo Wayne sent me when he was in the army in 1954.  I think Wayne is so handsome and I love the look on the young boy's face, and how he seems to really feel important with a soldier's arm around him!  This is a family photo of our daughter Pamela and her husband Robert Nicholson, and their family  taken 2007.  Standing are Skye, left, Caleb, and Miriam.   Yesterday, March 19, 2014, Skye entered the MTC in Provo, for her mission to the California, Irvine mission.  Front row, Lily, Pam holding baby Elizabeth (now 7 years old) Robert with Joy, and Leah. This is a photo of my mother, Ruth (who wrote the poems in blog # 95 -- the all time favorite!) and her sister Adelia, who was 5 years younger than Ruth, but she passed away a year or two before Ruth. This beautiful photo above...

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...

William Chamberlain and his wife Mary Allen Chamberlain were the great grandparents of Gladys Tregenna Dayton Eckman.  Anne Chamberlain, mentioned below, became the wife of Hiram Miles Dayton, and was Gladys's grandmother.   Hiram's father's history is told about in blog # 67.  William Chamberlain was born 27th October, 1815, in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England. He was married November 12, 1836 to Mary Allen, born 1 Jan 1815, also born in Oxfordshire, England . They spent the first part of their married life in England where Mary gave birth to John 1838; Henry, 1840; Elizabeth, 1842;  and Joseph in 1844, who died at 11 months of age.  They lived near Oxford, which has the oldest university in the English speaking world.  As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II...

Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTION __________________________ Parents Teachings and Example Nauvoo, Illinois November 21, 2013 SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY: Moses 6:57-59 "Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell in his presence . . . Therefore I give unto you a commandment, to teach these things freely unto your children, saying: that by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death . . . so ye must be born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit, and be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; that ye might be sanctified from all sin, and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal glory." QUOTE OF THE DAY:   Wilford Woodruff   "I...

I became interested in Family History when it was called "Genealogy".  I first became very fascinated with it when I was about 16 years old, (1950).  I had Aunt Sarah on my father's line, and my Aunt Vina on my  mothers' line who had both done quite a lot of genealogy.  I copied the large long family group sheets, and pedigree charts, and then went to our small library in St. George, and looked up names of my ancestors in New England in the few books they had.   I was thrilled to find names of direct ancestors in the early records in various states, especially Connecticut and Massachusetts. I had a few in New York, Vermont, and some other states also. but their Temple work was already done.  I have many who came in the early 1630's and 1640's.  One ancestor was the first white girl born in America, the daughter of French immigrants, I believe.  Another was the first person in New England to live to be 100 years old.  I have a 1640 map of N...

Levinah Emmaline Wilson , or “Emm” was born down on “The Muddy”, St. Thomas, Nevada, as it was called, on April 14, 1870.   It was covered now Lake Mead.    She was born in a dirt floored and dirt roofed house.  Her father had been called there to start a saw-mill.  She told the story, as it had been told to her, that at her birth it was raining,  (a rare thing for that section), and that sisters had to hold pans over the bed to catch the rain water, during her birth process.   Only the tops of a few trees used to show through the lake to show where the town had been.   It since is uncovered now due to the lake having less water.   Her father was George Deliverance Wilson, and her mother was Martha Ann Riste.   She was the 7th child out of eleven.  There were eight boys and three girls.  Aunt Martha was 10 years older than Mother and quite sickly.  Aunt Sadie was 8 years younger, so Levinah had brothers both younger and...