The Lord has said, If ye are prepared ye shall not fear (D&C 38:30). Finally Id walk up to him and hand him this note, and hed read it: Dear Mr. Parsons, We dont have any food in the house. You come and speak to our people. I give the credit to my mother and older brothers in the family that we paid back every single penny that we ever borrowed from Mr. Parsons and from another grocer that gave us a charge account. People Projects Discussions . This is the time of King Arthur, and we reach for the stars! I think thats a great concept: others must be able to see some vision out ahead. This powerful document predicts the millennial ministry of the Savior and the future success of the Saints missionary labors in the American South. I think I learned the greatest lesson I have ever learned in my life that day. If dogged and grim, you besiege and beset it, youll get it! I told some seminary students the other day about an experience I had after getting glasses. I think that if we went through this audience every single person would think of something hed change if he could. They found others who were artists and could see the shape of her face and its contours. Featherstone, To My Beloved Fellow Saints in the Twenty-First Century., 17. Featherstone graduated from South High in Salt Lake City in 1949. I think if youll be a trainer of people, or a teacher, or a philosopher, you need to plant the sweet smell of success in the nostrils of those you would inspire. And then it went rolling off through the universe. If life seems all empty and useless without it, My goal is not to criticize ElderFeatherstone or to disparage sincere Latter-day Saints among them presumably this videos creator who like myself are eager to be present for our Saviors coming. In 1993, an institute director contacted Elder Featherstone to confirm that this was agenuine statement. Did Elder Featherstone believe he had apersonal revelation on the timing of the Second Coming? I didnt want tolive withthe problem! This is a great life, and it is a marvelous time to live. As it did, it went through other fog banks, and the dew settled on the earth, and the crust began to form. Thats the only reason I am here., I said, Would you just take a few minutes and explain the story to me?. And so this sweet fellow said, All right, Ill speak at your sacrament meeting. The whole night before his talk, Doug hardly slept at all. He did not have opportunity to attend college, nor could he serve a full-time mission due to the Korean War and subsequent one-missionary-per-ward policy. I heard a while ago of a contest to find the ugliest girl in America. FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nobody was there. Elder Maxwell doesnt know either. When I was 19 1/2, I went to the bishop and asked, Bishop, can I go on a mission?. So they went out and dug in the sands nearby, and with almost every shovelful of sand, they turned up more diamonds. He tells of being in Baghdad and hiring an old Arab guide. He was poor because he was discontented, and he was discontented because he felt and feared that he was poor. Then my second brother came along, and I supported him on his mission. King Arthur didnt want to believe it, so he kept it submerged and wouldnt believe it. Strength and sagacity; faith, hope, and confidence, stern pertinacity; [Signed] Mrs. Featherstone.. I would imagine there are many young women here today who are concerned that Im twenty-two and Im not married yet or Im twenty-five and not married. That isnt all that serious. Primero, lo menos importante, pero aun de gran significado, debemos comprender . It really does come forth when you start serving people. You recall the scene where King Arthur finally, after many months, received reports and innuendos and whatever that Lancelot and King Arthurs wife, Guinevere, had had an affair and were having an affair at that time. Then I didnt know what to do. One returned missionary who served in Oklahoma recalls having acopy in the early 1990s. Were really excited about it.) We need to remember a great phrase by President Hugh B. On April 6, 1983, Elder Featherstone drafted aletter addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church. (This is the part I am embarrassed even to tell you.) It is simply not an approved publication of the Church and its contents are only the opinions of the author, even though he be a general authority. He finally found one, and after he had taken a battery of tests, the speech therapist told him, You have a severe case of stammering and stuttering. I guess the teacher didnt have to be a genius to tell him that. That isnt so. In fact, he would go on to state Those who live in that day whether that be us, our children, our childrens children, or some future generation will bow down at His feet and worship Him as the Lord of lords, King of kings.20We should weigh both Featherstones 1993 explanatory note and his published sentiments in 1995 when we consider whether he claimed to have had arevelation on the matter. Her hair was done appropriately, and they did whatever else it took to make her more attractive. You swim and swim and finally get there, but when you reach out to take hold of it he pulls it away from you again. He said, Your name is Douglas Snarr. Then Doug climbed into the back of the taxi, and the black driver turned aroundtears streaming down his cheeksand said, Thats the first time in my life that anyone has ever stuck up for me.. Hed make out a charge slip and put it in the wagon, and then Id drag it home. On March 12, 2020, the video 7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE was released on YouTube.1Six weeks later it had 375,000 views and had made the rounds on various Facebook groups, including one devoted to discussion among seminary teachers. I was in a store, and one of our neighbors came ina good LDS gal about our age (young). But finally the facts were out, and he knew they were true. If gladly youll sweat for it, fret for it, plan for it, It was found in a baking powder can wired to the handle of an old pump that offered the only hope of drinking water in a very long, seldom-used trail across the Armagosa Desert. When I was about seven or eight years old, a friend of mine, Spike Herzog, said to me as I was coming home from school one day, Why dont you come to Primary with me?. Under the white rock I buried a bottle of waterout of the sun and cork end up. Here are all of you wonderful young people at BYUall getting the thing that Ive longed for and hungered for. What if a short time later your health comes? I didnt ask for the blessing; he volunteered it and gave it to me. Thats a great story relating to what I would like to talk to you about tonight: the acres of diamonds each of you has as an individual. When I find somebody who isnt enthusiastic, I try to get within four or five feet of him so some of those wavelengths will carry right on through. He wanted that kind of conviction for himself, so he began seriously reading the Book of Mormon. I remember the story of a famous artist who painted a beautiful portrait. I have prayed most of my life, but this day I really prayed: Dear God, help me to know what to do. Then the message came, so I got up, called a taxi, and went down to the LDS chapel. His life "was a daily manifestation of faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ." Newsletters Subscribe for free and get daily or weekly updates straight to your inbox Church News Today I shant be wounded and not return it in kind. I had heard about him and admired him for a long time. John E. Enslen, Journal Manuscript, January 25, 2010, in possession of author. He later joined the staff of another fast-growing supermarket chain, which would take him to various executive positions in Utah, Idaho, and California. ISBN 9780875790855 (978--87579-085-5) Hardcover, Deseret Book Co, 1987. When I went back East, I found the school, went in, and was met by a seventy-four-year-old, white-haired man. Emmawas born on October 18 1909, in Mammoth, Juab, Utah. Then I thought that maybe I shouldnt be working. Id get to the store and go in and walk around the aisles trying to avoid Mr. Parsons, who by the way (I didnt know at the time) was a high priest in our ward. As he did, he saw something glistening in the sand. Vaughns father was the only member of the Church in the family and had been inactive for some time, so it was through a friends invitation to Primary that Vaughn first came to church. Is that really you? Elder Featherstone also wrote many books, particularly for youth of the Church, about gospel topics for which he felt strongly. There would be drunks and others lying on benches out in the park, but Id go out and put the newspaper over my arm while reading or talking to myself, with my arm moving back and forth under the paper with every syllablepracticing! Then a Volkswagen pulled in behind him. Ibelieve we are on the very threshold of great trials. What I am saying is that if the Lord will take a scroungy little kid like that, who had to wear nurses shoes to church and had to go and beg for groceries, and if he will make him a high councilor or a stake president or the second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, can you believe what he would do for you? Timmy said, You know, Ive only been in your class just a little while, and you already know more about me than that other teacher did all year. As I heard this story, I thought in my heart, Dear God, please, everything is riding on this interview. This generation will face trials and troubles that will exceed those of their pioneer forebears. https://byui-media.ldscdn.org/byui_ft/devo_audio/15_10_2013_Devo.mp3. When authors state that items come from the Church or Church Headquarters or Salt Lake one does have to be cautious because that is often a way to sneak something past the unwary or give them an air of authority they do not actually possess. You who are reading this letter are witnesses to my words.4, [Page 311]The letter concludes with apersonal message of gratitude to the Savior in the event that this letter come to the attention of our Lord who is reigning personally upon the earth.5. I can spot any bird that flies, and I can tell you what it is, and I can tell you what color it is. Yes, I love them. vaughn j featherstone excommunicatedfisher 667 actuator parts list 11 czerwca 2022 / treat williams yellowstone / in florida tech men's soccer division / by / treat williams yellowstone / in florida tech men's soccer division / by Youve put a time limit on the Lord. Id see that great high priest and store owner look at the letter, then look down at me, and tears would come to his eyes. Your parents were married in the temple, and so you are born in the covenant. Most experienced readers know this. I surely dont know as much as all those people in that other class. Pronunciation of Vaughn J Featherstone with 1 audio pronunciation and more for Vaughn J Featherstone. The Arab concluded his story by saying that Ali Hafids farm was the Golconda mine, the richest diamond mine in all the history of the world. In his April 1997 Ensign article entitled, Enduring Well Elder Neal A. Maxwell is on record as saying, An angel, whose identity we do not know, came to strengthen Him. By all accounts, Featherstones letter appears genuine. So I had decided I would pay for the course myself. 6. You can overcome the problem and someday youll speak as I am speaking. I started to cry because somebody had told me I didnt have to live with the problem I had. Let us consider an experience that happened to GordonB.Hinckley, then an apostle, only five years before Elder Featherstone wrote his letter. Where should I look for one?, The Buddhist priest, having been awakened early in the morning and not feeling too pleasant, said, You look for a river between high mountains, and the river will flow on white sands, and there you will find diamonds., There is, replied the priest, and there are many of them, and you will find them. It would be deposited in atime capsule at the dedication of the Atlanta Georgia Temple presumably, like other Church time capsules, to be opened fifty years later. In this essay, Iexamine this document to understand its limitations for the argument Montemayor makes. The words wouldnt come. Whats the problem? I can name every single one, and there are hundreds of them in the woods around our house. Then they took this girl, after they had the picture of her before, and obtained the finest clothes that money could buy for her. That whole meeting just seemed to stop and wait until I moved, so I had to move. Others can help us be attractive on the surface, and I think its important to look attractive. He said, This story I save for my particular friends. Then he told me this story: In ancient Persia there was a man by the name of Ali Hafid who owned orchards, gardens, and fields of grain. My father was a great man when he was sober. He tried to cause an accident. It shines through and makes him beautiful from within and without. Job was a great soul, and he said, Though he [God] slay me, yet will I trust in him (Job 13:15). McConkie also commented on the half-hour period of silence that follows the opening of the seventh seal in Revelation 8. The letter is addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church and is written with the expectation that these future Saints will have been alive for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Its the end of the drought! Doug described his reaction: Something welled up inside of me that made me so mad I could hardly stand it. Have faith! Then I also recall the Scotchman who bought his wife an X ray of his chest for their anniversary. I demand a mans vengeance! Featherstone then turns his attention to the future growth of the Church in the American South. Blythe, Vaughn J. Featherstone's Atlanta Temple Letter 313 Enslen stated it was used by Church leaders in the South in the years after 1983.15 The language in these two portions of Featherstone's letter are distinct. And all that you dream and you scheme is about it; I am just so excited to live in this day and to be part of the wrapping-up process. Every man must be tested. I told a group of Aaronic Priesthood holders out in the congregation tonight, if they are pure in heart, they may . I can affirm the general correctness of this article from my own experience. Those who will sit in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are here.18. Help me to say the right thing today. After she had finished, I said, You know, I really dont think you want to be excommunicated. Although Ido not know the time, Ilook forward to the Lords coming.26. I heard President Brown make a statement a long time ago: If I could choose from all the times in the history of the earth to live, it would be about fifty years later than I was born. Do you know what that means? Theres a crazy man at the door talking to our father. (I was eighteen at the time.) I have seen her stand there from four-thirty to six-thirty, nine-thirty, and ten-thirty at night. I think youd be interested in a quote I oftentimes use to tell how I feel about my wife, but I want to use it to make a different point tonight. He didnt have enough concept, skill, or ability to increase and improve that painting. I hadnt worn them all my life, so they changed my appearance a little bit. He said, I just suggest you get married. So I did, and we have this lovely family. The next morning I would get up, and I couldnt tell but that she had been up all night. He said that after working in Church Correlation for a time, that Elder Featherstone indicated that if he had had that experience earlier in his general authority ministry that he would have been more careful and cautious and circumspect in his doctrinal teachings to the Church. So can we use this scientific data to extrapolate that the Second Coming is likely to occur during the next few years, or the next decade, or the next century? They had all told him that the teacher was a quack, and that he really couldnt do anything, and that the course was just a waste of money. In Lunds words, The scholars disagree on exactly how many years the earth has undergone since the Fall of Adam, however, so it cannot be said that the Millennium will occur in the year 2,000 A.D. (as some enthusiastic interpreters of scripture would like to conclude).23McConkie similarly stated, that we cannot tell with certainty how many years passed from the fall of Adam to the birth of Jesus, nor whether the number of years counted by our present calendar has been tabulated without error.24. He wanted to be baptized, and his mother was supportive. So I voluntarily lengthened my skirts. I went back to the taxi and told the driver to take me to that address. 9. The bus driver slammed the window shut on Dougs arm, and when he pulled it out it was bleeding down his white shirt and his suit. You must simply trust in him as Job did. The darkest clouds in the history of the world are on the horizon.3. The ushers started coming down the aisle, they got to our row, and everybody got up and left. When I was invited to accept this assignment, I looked to it as a great honor and one to which hopefully I can contribute something. There is no reason we need to fail. 218 University Press Building
Many of you have it much harder and have attended college. Iam not interested in refuting this idea, but it is based on aspeculative calculation of scripture rather than an independent revelation. Vaughn J. Featherstone graduated from South High School in Salt Lake City in 1949. You know, she continued, I believed that prayer was a one-way street. I believe, you see, that what King Arthur went through was a terrible thing. Finally, instead of acting as if I werent listening, Conwell said, Id act as if I were listening and then just turn him off. Enslen, To Any Who May Be Interested., 16. Official items meant for members are approved by Correlation and have an approval date (like 6/2020) on them (and now we are seeing the new Christus symbol also). However, in other instances, he points to obscure sources, including an April1983 letter written by Seventy VaughnJ.Featherstone. Here are excerpts from an oldies but goodies Conference talk by Vaughn J. Featherstone: "I would like to talk tonight about a need for a self-inflicted purging in every single priesthood holder so that we might be pure in heart. vermont temporary registration out of state Top Bar. Montemayor describes Featherstones statements on the Second Coming as aphenomenal prophecy. See Millennial Reign, 7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE, 48:43. I didnt think the Lord would be pleased with my working, and we really didnt need both incomes, so I stopped working. Many years laterin wretched poverty, having been driven all the way across Europe, not a penny left, in rags, heartsick, weary, tiredhe stood on the bay of Barcelona.