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How would you feel, if you were called, or you were the wife of a man who was called to be an apostle?  This tells of the feelings of those dear people.  ----   And soon this will happen to 2 men who will be called to fill the places of Elder L. Tom Perry and Elder Boyd K. Packer. Who knows but that one of the 2 new ones called may someday become the President, and Prophet of the Church! President Monson + 4 Other Church Presidents Share Story of Being Called as an Apostle by My Best LDS  |  Mormon Life ‘Daddy, Salt Lake City is Calling’—When 5 Future Church Presidents Were Called as Apostles July 8, 2015 General Conference Stories and Quotes ,  Inspiration ,  Prophets and Apostles Ezra Taft Benson ,  Gordon B. Hinckley ,  Howard W. Hunter ,  LDS ,  LDSconf ,  Mormon ,  Spencer W. Kimball ,  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ,  Thomas S. Monson When the...

This is a change of pace!  Sounds like great ideas for dessert!  A cobbler made in a skillet, and baked in the oven.  A lot like dutch oven cooking.  Have fun and try it.  I think I will!  From Meridian Magazine. How to Make Skillet Cobblers By Dennis Weaver  · July 7, 2015 I love cobblers with their crusty tops and sweetened fruit. My “go to” cobbler recipe for years has been our “Mormon Peach Cobbler” recipe.  Fifteen, maybe twenty years ago—actually now, it’s more like thirty years ago–we found an old Mormon pioneer cookbook at a little store in Yellowstone Park.  It had a recipe for peach cobbler that we liked.  We’ve tweaked it over the years and it still makes a very good cobbler.  That recipe is the basis for our skillet cobbler mix, one of our bestselling mixes.     How to Make Skillet Cobblers Skillet cobblers are made with a sweet cake over a filling.  There’s more cake to fruit t...

What Happened to the 3 Witnesses?  They NEVER did deny their testimonies! What Happened to the 3 Witnesses? by Jannalee Rosner, in LDS Living The names of Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris are familiar to most of us, notably because of their role as witnesses to the reality of the Book of Mormon. (Note: the three witnesses, unlike the eight witnesses, were shown the plates by a heavenly messenger, not Joseph Smith.) But though their testimonies are still printed in the beginning of every copy of the Book of Mormon, all three of these men left the Church at some point—only two returned. Find out what happened to the three witnesses after they signed their names to their testimonies. Oliver Cowdery Before Oliver Cowdery first came in contact with the gospel in 1829 while boarding with the Smith family as a school teacher. He quickly embraced the story of The First Vision and found himself eager to be a scribe for Joseph during th...

First I will tell briefly the story of Wayne's ancestor, Phillip Kirk.  He was living in Arnold, Nottingham, England, not far from the well-known Sherwood Forest which is in the famous story of Robinhood.  His full history is posted in entry # 197, which was printed on July 24, 2014.   Mary Ann was 17 years old when she married Philip Kirk, 20 years old. They had 10 children, four of whom died young. Early in the 1840’s, Mormon missionaries had been sent to England to tell the people there of a new religion in America.   In 1849 some traveling Elders found the Philip Kirk family in Arnold, Nottingham, England.  He was then a baker with a pastry shop.            His conversion to the Latter Day Saint religion was the result of a dream.   He dreamed that as he was standing by his gate, he saw two men coming down the road toward him.  He then awoke.   Several days later he saw the two men of his d...