(A) Proclamation to the World - About the family.

Daddy:

I hope this little note will give you a glimpse of just how much you mean to me and my children. I have been blessed with you in my life. And looking into the eyes of my children, I truly know just how lucky I am. I hope that I can be to them what you have always been to me: my mentor, my friend, my hero, my daddy. I love you daddy.  Happy birthday.

Tell your parents how much they mean to you, today.

Family Depot

Obedience is better than sacrifice.

Peace in your Hearts is a new online course developed by Welfare Services as a tool to help members understand debt and how to manage their finances.

Music:  There is also an interactive Church Music Player on the web site now which is fun to use.    It will even help you learn to sing.  It has most of our hymns and many Primary Songs.  The beat can be slowed until you learn it, parts, melody, bass, tenor, soprano settings there for the taking.  Check it out and tell anyone in the choir.

If you are ever responsible for assembling a group of Saints together who don't know each other remember the one sure subject to introduce is HOW I WAS CONVERTED. If that subject ever does wear out and you still need to keep the conversation rolling then the second subject to introduce is SOME OF THE BAPTISMS I PERFORMED. 

We can't dry up the rivers of iniquity 
but we can offer rocks of refuge 
where righteousness reigns.
Lin Stone

The music of William James has touched the hearts of many thousands of people.  William records that almost the very instant he set having a temple marriage at the top of his priorities his taste in music changed.  His mission call to Australia gave him the privilege of writing and performing music in special firesides.  "I was a missionary first and a musician second."

Genealogy Depot

Writing lends itself to the field of genealogy.  If you can write simple English then you can produce family histories for money.  Breaking in is the hardest part, naturally.  But the good news is that once you get going, the business just keeps pouring in through word of mouth.  As a genealogy writer you'll be doing research, outlining, timelining, and producing the final product for publication.  Some other skills that will stand you in good stead are basic photography, and interviewing.  If you can run a camcorder, so much the better.

If you just tell people you are a genealogy writer, even though interest is running higher all the time, many people will just shrug their shoulders.  They don't know WHY they should care -- yet.  The first thing you'll want to do is learn some of the reasons people SHOULD do their genealogy.  The more reasons you come up with, the more sales you can make.  For example, did you know that doing genealogy research could literally be good for one's health?   Here is a special audio file to give you some more ideas.  Listen in, and then let's talk some more.  Okay?  Click HERE for that audio.

  • Family Search - Search for your ancestors in our vast record collections. Get step-by-step research guidance on searching for your ancestors. View maps, forms, guides, and other research helps. Find other web sites containing family history information.
  • Genforum - Locate family web sites by state
  • Royalty and Nobility - Cyndi's list has held a wealth of information for years now.
  • Tracing Mormon Pioneers - The purpose of this web site is to provide tips for those tracing their Latter-Day Saint Pioneer ancestry from Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and South Africa to Salt Lake City, Utah. 
  • Ancestry.com  U.S. Federal Census Images!
    View original documents online! Ancestry.com continues the census images project with 1920 postings for parts of Arkansas, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Virginia.
  • familyhistory  hosts over 130,000 message boards which are divided into three main categories, Surnames, Geography, and Research Topics. 
  • genealogy.com  Thousands of richly detailed family histories put the story in your history
  • WorldGenWeb countries research from A-Z.  Hundreds of links to other resources too.
  • rootsweb.com  The key product here is help for beginners.  You will also find all the in depth assistance you could ask for.

 

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Temples
of the
Most High God

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by
Lin Stone

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Ever since the very beginning there has been a dual ownership of the Church.  It starts out with the very name: The Church of Jesus Christ -- of Latter-day Saints.  The Church belongs to both of us, to Christ and to us the members. 

Our temples have dual ownership too.  They belong to the Lord, and to us.  Both of us have work to do at the temple.  Jesus offers the saving ordinances.  Our part is inscribed in sacred words above every temple door:

Holiness to the Lord. 

Holiness is what we must bring to the temple.

If people realized what our temples offer them there would be a continuous traffic jam thirty miles long of patrons waiting to get into even the smallest temples we have, and that would just be the members of our Church lining up to get back in.  Once the world realizes what our temples offer all other work would cease and our entire energies would be devoted to preparing ourselves for entering the Holy Temple and participating in the ordinances thereof in holiness.

Those who understand the blessings waiting for them there have gladly sacrificed life savings to go just once.  To this very day there are Saints giving up food and drink for days just so they can attend a session at their nearest temple.

When we expect miracles from our missionaries the first thing we do is take them through the temple for their own endowments.  With just a glimmer of the blessings that have been bestowed upon them they go forth ready to convert the world. 

When the Church was brand new the very first thing the members did as soon as the organization was established was begin to build a temple.  They sacrificed their money, jewels, and precious goods, their labor, and their skills to build an edifice that still stands as an emblem of beauty and holy grace.  There the leadership of our Church was endowed from on high and went forth unto the world with power and a fire burning in their bosoms that the mightiest nations on earth could not deny or controvert. 

When persecution raged and neither life or limb was safe we labored to complete the Nauvoo Temple.  Endowment sessions ran throughout the night with the Twelve laboring in all their might to show the people what great glories had been added upon their head.  When they tried to close those sessions the people still lacking those ordinances cried out for mercy that they too be endowed with power from on high.  Their pleas could not be ignored.  Risking their very lives to stay there and keep the sessions going the officiators toiled until they dropped from exhaustion, then they rose to work longer and harder than ever.

With the faith of the fully endowed guiding them onward the people were able to endure privations they had not asked for.  Their faith blazed so that from beginning to end of their trek they passed over lands far easier to tame and raise crops than the veritable wilderness where they stopped to build the Kingdom of God.  Before that desert would blossom like the rose it tore up plows and wore out horses, mules and oxen, and the first spot marked for conquest was the spot where the temple would be built.  "Here we shall build our temple."

Where in all of history can you see a people more dedicated or more devout in their worship than the Saints laboring to rear their temples and go through them for their endowments?  That fire still burns.  It burns more fiercely today than ever.  Saints all around the world are laboring diligently to build more temples, and attend those they already have.

"Come.  Let us go up to the House of the Lord."

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What you will find here:

links to temples.  links to Church Scriptures, links to Church magazines, links to Church organizations, links to official Church pages, links to genealogical resources, links to Primary, links to resources for the family, links to testimonies, meetinghouses, LDS members on the web, for kids, links to better lessons, missions, LDS music, news, relief society, schools, young men, young women, humor, personal preparation, and clip art.  Please let me know about any faulty links.. 

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The Deseret Guide Book, Your basic beehiving manual:
When the Jaredites left the tower of Babel they took Deseret with them.
You can almost hear them chanting.. “We Want Honey! We Want Honey!”

What better way to have honey is there except to go in partners with a colony of bees to make your own special blend. The varieties are almost endless. Thirty years ago the Miles family living near Buckeye Arizona introduced me to the joys of having special blends of honey on hand. Their favorites were cotton honey, mesquite honey, alfalfa honey, pomegranate honey, and cottonwood honey.  I'll bet that pomegranate honey would sell like wildfire today.

When Sister Miles opened a jar you could smell the blend. Spread it on a hot biscuit (made with hand cranked, freshly ground whole wheat, of course) you could flat out taste the cool sweet flavor of that blend. It was a lot of work to produce honey that pure. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of flavor.

What brands you see on a shelf taste the same, jar after jar, but that’s because they dump all their honey into a huge vat and mix it. Before I met the Miles I would take any kind of honey available. If the label said HONEY, I grabbed it.

If I found a bee hive out in the desert I grabbed that kind of honey too. Wild bees make wild honey. You never know what kind of flavor you’ll end up with. Wild bees are kind of fierce and mean too. They think they own that honey and they’ll defend it to the death. That’s why honey hunters dress up like spacemen.  I’ll bet you can’t wait to get started in keeping your own bees.  Right Click HERE for your free copy of this fifty page book.

Brand new contact site for the Church.
Send your friends, neighbors
Go and send beautiful greeting cards.

LDS Neighborhood
I mention for its potential
If they keep building the way they are going
then this will be really terrific.

The Power Road To Higher Education

Scriptures Depot

If the Scriptures are available to us then we will be judged by whether we read them or not.  If we do read the Scriptures we will be judged by how well we understand them.  If we understand the Scriptures then we will be judged by our diligence in applying those teachings found in them.  I love having the Scriptures available to us on the Church web site.  Using the SEARCH facility I can zip right to the references for whatever topic I am researching.  

The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt  This is a pdf document.  Please RIGHT click and save it to your computer.  Feel Free to give copies to all your friends, neighbors and honest investigators.

The Death of Parley P. Pratt. 

LDSLiving sponsored lessons on Book of Mormon and New Testament.

Do you have a story from your family history that ought to be shared with other Latter-day Saints?  Send it to newera@ldschurch.org or send it to New Era, 50 E. North Temple St. Rm 2420, Salt Lake City UT 84150-3220, USA. 

Conference Depot

Welcome to LDS Friends Worldwide! This is the place where you can meet members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from all over the world! 

LDSRomances is designed to help members of the LDS community find new friends and meet like-minded singles. Also, we offer the place for people to build their faith and interacting with others, where people can talk about religion or just spirituality, meditation or just mentality, or more.

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Kids Depot

A Free Gift For Your Child

Give your child a competitive edge in learning more about the world.  This research tool connects your family with the most valuable links of explanation and exploration available at this time.  All Four R-s are here:  Reading, Righting, Rithmetic and Ratiocination. Download the WEBPEDIA and explore it with your child for maximum benefits.

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Another thing, FORWARDING email letters that had no right to be sent to you in the first place, should be avoided.  I speak as an author here, one deriving his income from the production of words.

As explained on
http://www.talewins.com/Permission.htm 
not everything found on the web is free. 

One other danger in opening forwarded letters is that viral letters (letters interesting enough and important enough to be passed on eagerly) is a favorite means of passing on a dangerous virus to other computers.

I hope I haven't hurt your feelings, but I do feel a great anxiety when proprietary information is released.

Primary Depot

Relief Society Depot

Special
For Relief Society

The Savior has specifically enjoined us to help the poor and the needy.  How do you make sure you are giving full, complete help that will remedy the situation without making the problem worse. 

A handout is seldom the right thing to offer. For months we had one young woman asking every church in town for a handout. She called us one day asking for gas money and I offered to let her clean out our garage in exchange for the money, certain she would turn it down. Instead, she leaped at the chance to actually earn the money she needed. 

Susie met with my wife and went to work. She cleaned and she polished and long after my wife said she had already earned the money Susie kept on working. Only when SHE was satisfied did Susie quit. Then she proudly accepted her wages and went home smiling. She felt good. We felt good. The garage was clean too. You can't beat a deal like that with a six foot stick.

Helping a needy family over life's temporary hurdles is seldom easy even with prayer and the power of discernment to guide us.  Quite often the kind of help we want to give is the wrong kind of help for that family to receive. Quite often this is complicated because the family itself has no idea whatsoever what it needs. 

Consequently, I have created a NEEDS AND ANALYSIS list designed to help you discover the individual needs of the family.  As you go through the list with the applicant, watch the eyes as you read off items on the list for tips of what things this family might consider a luxury out of its reach, and not dare to ask for. 

This list is not meant to be exhaustive, or limiting. It really won't matter to you if the family wants tooth powder instead of tooth paste. Nobody will need everything on this list. The less likely to be desired items are lumped in one cell; simply circle the items wanted and check the box on the right.  

Maybe it's just because I'm a writer, or maybe it because I'm LDS AND a writer, but I just love dipping into Six Writers and a Frog.  This is a blog and apparently your comments are welcome.

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Testimonies Page:   

Plural Marriage Response by Parley P. Pratt.

What did the stone box look like that contained the Golden Plates?  Strangely enough, other stone boxes have been found.  Click HERE to see the best picture I've found.  In November of 1860, David Wyrick of Newark, Ohio found an inscribed stone in a burial mound about 10 miles south of Newark. The stone is inscribed on all sides with a condensed version of the Ten Commandments or Decalogue, in a peculiar form of post-Exilic square Hebrew letters. The robed and bearded figure on the front is identified as Moses in letters fanning over his head.  Click HERE for the rest of the story. 

Did the Vikings Discover America?  

The Bat Creek Stone was discovered in 1889 in an undisturbed burial mound in Eastern Tennessee by the Smithsonian's Mound Survey project.

In 1971, Cyrus Gordon identified the letters inscribed on the stone as Paleo-Hebrew of approximately the first or second century A.D. According to him, the five letters to the left of the comma-shaped word divider read, from right to left, LYHWD, or "for Judea."  In 1988, wood fragments found with the inscription were Carbon-14 dated to somewhere between 32 A.D. and 769 A.D. These dates are consistent with the apparent date of the letters.

As for the Wyoming County petroglyph, it remains for all to see: America's first Christmas message, left between 500 and 800 A.D., by Irish Christian missionaries. We may never know the identity of the person or persons who carved the message, but the fact that it exists, provides important proof of the old claim that Irish monks sailed to America to spread the gospel long before Columbus and the Vikings. An Irish monk named Brendan wrote of that in the Sixth Century, but no one believed him. Now, in view of the earlier settlements found in New England, it should be obvious that the Irish had the map all along.

The Vintage Game Store.. offers vintage and rare games such as Voice of the Mummy, Seance, Dark Tower, Haunted House, Clue Master Detective, Hotels, Haunted Mansion, Stop Thief, & Others.

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We met the author in the Houston LDS bookstore.
Many nonmembers are ordering the book to pass it on to their friends.
"It is turning into quite a missionary tool."

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