Maybe you and your family have a Christmas tradition similar to mine. On the day after Thanksgiving each year, we turn up the Christmas music and pull out the Christmas decorations. One box is set aside though and saved until the very end. Once the tree is up and decorated, the lights are on the […]
Pictured is the reconstructed home of Joseph and Emma Smith in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Joseph and Emma Smith moved from Palmyra, New York to Harmony, Pennsylvania to escape persecution. Joseph had been commanded to continue translating the plates, but the tasks of everyday life prevented the work from moving forward. Joseph asked the Lord to send […]
The Savior’s words as recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 27: 5 said, “…Moroni, whom I have sent unto you to reveal the Book of Mormon, containing the fullness of my everlasting gospel, to whom I have committed the keys of the record of the stick of Ephraim”. Sixteen individuals have been identified through documented accounts […]
www.LDSSinglesTrips.com – LDS Singles Church History Tour The other night I was sitting with a group of women who were complaining about the dating scene. They joked about how they wish men could be sent to a Man Camp where they could be trained on what a woman actually wants. Their complaint, the same one […]
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The comparison of today’s youth to Helaman’s Stripling Warriors doesn’t quite work anymore! Prior to my mission in the late 90’s, I was often reminded by my church leaders of President Benson’s famous quote. “You are a marked generation” we were told. We were and we are. We were also compared to the mighty Stripling […]
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That time when a group of LDS Singles ran from the Mexican police: I take groups of LDS singles to tour the ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico and Belize. We tour these ruins with an LDS perspective. We use a cruise ship to transport us to each of the ruins. I take 2-3 groups of […]
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KSL reported some exciting news this morning! (August 21, 2015) The renovation work being done at the Priesthood Restoration Site in Harmony, Pennsylvania is just about complete. While leading several Church History Tours this past year, I have been able to keep my eye on the progress being made at this sacred spot. What the Church has […]
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One of the greatest miracles of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ happened long before Joseph Smith received his vision of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove. Joseph Smith’s third great-grandfather settled in Topsfield, Massachusetts in the year 1638. Five generations of the Smith family would live in Topsfield until […]
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As a missionary in Australia many years ago, I met a wonderful Catholic woman named Pauline Murray. Pauline was 83 years old when I met her and she knew more about the Bible then anyone I have ever met. She was very active in her church and even led a weekly Bible study. She was […]
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Weak from hunger and exhaustion, members of the Willie company started from the base of Rocky Ridge early on the morning of October 23. William and Jane James, along with their children, started a little bit later because William and his oldest son, 14-year-old Reuben, helped bury two people who had died the previous day. Soon […]