Thoughts and stories, by Pal

The "Ordain Women" is truly a big issue, which needed to be clarified.  It is sad that many will be misled by the group, and lose their same privileges in the Church if they do not repent.  It can happen that when a family member or friend becomes disenchanted with Church doctrine, they end up following the misled person, to their own destruction.  Church History is full of these kinds of situations.  It may be that this issue and other contemporary issues will bring on persecution from the media, and other groups.  We must read Pres. Monson's message in the last Priesthood Conference, April 2014, to be sure we will not be misled ourselves.   This is a good article I read on Meridian today:  To be able to access the article with the videos, etc. please copy and paste this URL: http://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/14521        (Turn on your sound) Tuesday, June 24 2014 8 Resources for Answers and Peace Concerning Women and the ...

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...