by Dan Wees | Dec 5, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Olive Grey Frost-Smith-Young… 31st Wife of Joseph Smith – Age 27/28? – Married in the summer of 1843 (Joseph Smith, age 37) “We know little about her – only that she was intensely religious, given to constant prayer, a seeker of truth, always concerned for...
by Dan Wees | Dec 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Boyd K. Packer said, “The phrase ‘free agency’ does not appear in scripture. The only agency spoken of is moral agency, ‘which,’ the Lord said, ‘I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable for his own sins in the Day of Judgment.’” Boyd K. Packer, Ensign...
by Dan Wees | Dec 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“My most *underrated* book in the Book (with an uppercase ‘B’) of Mormon for 2014 is the, um, book (with a lowercase ‘b’) of Mormon… because this is where Moroni explains why he has to truncate his valedictory (Mormon 8–9), abruptly ending the Book (with an...
by Dan Wees | Dec 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
With only a few pages left in the volume, Mormon (the editor of the book), writing to his son, Moroni, mentions the ‘Jaredite’ people, who lived around 1300 B.C. Their plates were discovered by the people of Limhi roughly a thousand years later – circa 125 B.C....
by Dan Wees | Dec 4, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[Here] is a photo of an orca leaping out of the water, possibly out of sheer joy that it isn’t a Mormon and isn’t forced to sit through a three hour block every Sunday, but who knows. The island in the background is Orcas Island. It is the largest Island...
by Dan Wees | Dec 3, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.” ~Brigham Young(?) – UNVERIFIED. Verification of this quote does...
