Thoughts and stories, by Pal

I just heard on TV from Las Vegas the woman who started the "Ordain Women" movement, was excommunicated from the Church.  As usual, it was misconstrued, to make it sound like women don't have "equal rights".  The media will probably have a hey day with this.  Tomorrow I'll post a great article on this subject that was in Meridian Magazine. I SUPPORT OUR LEADERS!  BE IT KNOWN ! Church Responds to Concerns Over Member Questions 1 DAYS AGO SOURCE: LDS.ORG Photo from ThinkStock LDS Church Spokesperson Jessica Moody issued the following statement Thursday in response to media inquiries concerning the ability of church members to raise questions and seek answers in the church. First, there is no effort to tell local leaders to keep members from blogging or discussing questions online. On the contrary, Church leaders have encouraged civil online dialogue, and recognize that today it's how we communicate and discuss ideas with on...

Group celebrates 25 years of Mormon missionaries crossing divided Germany By Erica Palmer For the Deseret News Published: Friday, June 13 2014 3:00 p.m. MDT Updated: Monday, June 16 2014 7:58 p.m. MDT   View 18 photos » The first missionaries to serve in the German Democratic Republic stand outside the Hamburg mission home in March 1989. Craig Miles Summary It has been 25 years since the German Democratic Republic was opened to LDS missionary work. This weekend, former missionaries will once again reunite in Dresden, Germany to commemorate this momentous anniversary. Although it has been 25 years, Elder Wolfgang Paul still clearly remembers the life-changing phone call. It was 10:15 p.m. in January 1989. He was sitting in the mission home in Hamburg in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he had been the mission president for six months. On the other end of the line was President Thomas S. Monson, who wa...

One of our ancestors who helped settle New Haven and Stratford, Connecticut.  Moses Wheeler was the first white person to live to be 100 in New England! MOSES WHEELER,  on the Allen/Wilson/Fairchild  Line   Coat of Arms        Moses Wheeler, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, very likely in the county of Kent, in 1598. The Wheeler family had lived there for over four hundred years. He saile d from London in 1638, when he was 40 years old, and settled in the New Haven colony. He was among the first to receive an allotment in that colony. There he married Miriam Hawley , sister of Joseph Hawley, one of the first settlers in the colony, and a very prominent man. He was expelled from the colony in 1648 because of a slight infringement of one of the Blue Laws, for which the colony was noted. According to tradition he had been away for several months, and returned on a Sunday. Forgetting the "Blue Laws" in his joy at his return, he k...

There isn't a lot of history from the Middle Ages. The main stories of people's lives during those years comes from anyone who had royalty or nobility lines.  One of Wayne's ancestral lines, the Harrington's, have interesting stories.   This is the only ancestral line we have information for back to the 1100's.  Most other lines begin in the 1500's or 1600's.      About 1150, a century after the Norman conquest, (William the Conqueror from France) Osulf appeared in history, owning the Manor of Flemingby.  He was undoubtedly of Norman ancestry since his descendants used the ancient Norman shield in their coat of arms.  Large land holdings such as his were held by the Norman conquerors and their descendants, usually given to them by William The Conqueror, for help in battle.   Often large manors were acquired by men without holdings, when they married a lady who inherited lands and manors.         Robert, Osulf’s...

I read this today in Latter Day Light Daily Devotion.  It is so comforting, and gives all of us hope for our children!  I hope you enjoy it. Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTION _________________________ Securing Our Children Nauvoo, Illinois June 18, 2014 SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY: Doctrine & Covenants 138:58-59 "The dead who repent will be redeemed, through obedience to the ordinances of the house of God, and after they have paid the penalty of their transgressions, and are washed clean, shall receive a reward according to their works, for they are heirs of salvation." QUOTE OF THE DAY:   Lorenzo Snow "God has fulfilled His promises to us, and our prospects are grand and glorious.  Yes, in the next life we will have our wives, and our sons and daughters.  If we do not get them all at once, we will have them some time, for every knee will bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is the Christ.   "You ...

New post on  Brian Mickelson.... Are Mormons Being Excommunicated for Questioning? by  BJM A screen grab from Kate Kelly's Facebook wall... The news media has reported that two Mormons are facing excommunication for questioning the LDS Church's policies, doctrines, and history*. I'm certainly not privy to the details of their situations, as I don't know either of them, nor do I know their local congregational leaders (not that they would share any details since they are under an obligation not to divulge those details to other parties). But, I think there are a few misunderstandings floating around out there about these, and related, situations that I'd like to discuss... First of all, I wish all the best to Kate Kelly and John Dehlin. I don't know their hearts, and only hope that their stories are eventually full of faith and happy outcomes. Secondly, I don't think either one of them is facing the possibility of excommunication for ...

34. Dad's autobiography, early 1900's to World War I, by himself      (By Ruth, his wife, my mother) :  "There are two memories Pratt has mentioned that occurred at the Red Hill home.  (It was just north of the Post Office on 2nd north and Main, a house or two going north on Diagonal Street.)  Both have to do with accidents, and both included a certain girl, Hortense McQuarrie, who later moved east and became a millionaire.  In memory of her time in Dixie she donated the money for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Memorial Building Museum here in St. George, which contains many relics and pictures of the early Dixie Pioneers.      Pratt and Hortense were playing as all children loved to, up in one of the hay lofts in a barn.  Pratt fell through where some boards were broken and as a result, his arm, as well as the boards, were broken.  He remembers going home and then to the Doctor, who set it, not in a p...