by Dan Wees | Jun 28, 2021 | Miscellaneous
Written with his own hand (which was VERY rare), Joseph Smith, Jr., while a fugitive, encouraged a secret meeting between “… three of his closest friends. They were Bishop Newel K. Whitney, his wife Elizabeth Ann and a person whom he refers to as...
by Dan Wees | Jun 22, 2021 | Miscellaneous
On 12 June 1871, Sarah Minnie Ephramina Jensen, aged fifteen, entered into matrimony with Lorenzo Snow, a fifty-seven-year-old LDS apostle, thus becoming his ninth and last spouse. Their age gap amounted to 41 and a half years. Over time, she bore him five children,...
by Dan Wees | Jun 22, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.” ~Deuteronomy...
by Dan Wees | Jun 15, 2021 | Miscellaneous
An Account of the Evacuation of Nauvoo by the Mormons in 1846: After a lengthy period of conflict between the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, and their non-Mormon neighbors, they negotiated a treaty, dated September 16, 1846, which gave the remaining Mormons five days to...
by Dan Wees | Jun 10, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he Church proclaims the ETERNAL TRUTH, ‘As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.’” James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith (Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1899), 433. EMPHASIS...
by Dan Wees | May 24, 2021 | Miscellaneous
“I wish such characters [outsiders] would let the boys have a chance to lay their hands on them. “If men come here and do not behave themselves, they will not only find the Danites, whom they talk so much about, biting the horses’ heels, but the scoundrels...
