But while neither Inor any other man knows when He will come, there are some things that Ido know and that knowledge comes from the scriptures, and the testimony of its truth comes by the power of the Holy Ghost. Doug jumped out of the back seat of the taxi and ran around to the window of the bus. 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. He wanted to be baptized, and his mother was supportive. Theres a crazy man at the door talking to our father. (I was eighteen at the time.) We promise to pay back every penny when we get some money. Almacenamiento de alimentos | Discursos SUD Re: The Masturbation ScrollBy Vaughn J. FeatherstoneOldie But Finally the professor got up, came over and stood by me, put his arm around me, and said, I will give the prayer. And he gave the prayer. 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. Prime the pump with it, and youll git all you can hold. These members, traditional Protestant and Catholic Christians are being prepared right now. As I made my way back to my seat, no one wanted to look at me because they didnt want to embarrass me. He didnt care; hes just prejudiced. Description. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller. Anyway, when they finally finished, they had a picture. The professor went down the whole list and said, Wed like to have Douglas Snarr come up and give the opening prayer., Doug said, I made my way out and walked down, and I stood in front with my head bowed. She didnt give up on us; she stuck with us. The darkest clouds in the history of the world are on the horizon.3. By Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone Of the First Quorum of the Seventy My beloved brothers and sisters, it has been my privilege through the past years as a stake president, a mission president, and a General Authority to serve as a common judge in modern Israel. After theyre gone Ill come running home half an hour later or something. That was my plan. This is all Ive done all my life. In the 1990s, adifferent statement from Elder Featherstone began to circulate. Of course they saw those nurses shoes that I had to wear to church. Vaughn J. Featherstone (March 26, 1931 - May 12, 2018) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1972 until his death. Ive tried to compensate for it. 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. At about that same time we couldnt afford much clothing either. Cobbled together by Dennis B. Horne Note: In his earlier years, in some talks given in the 1970s, as a counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone referenced a marvelous spiritual experience he received.The below contains both published text and newly transcribed wording that was withheld for whatever reason (perhaps felt to be too . Featherstone was born in Stockton, Tooele County, Utah. This is a great life, and it is a marvelous time to live. King Arthur didnt want to believe it, so he kept it submerged and wouldnt believe it. He later joined the staff of another fast-growing supermarket chain, which would take him to various executive positions in Utah, Idaho, and California. She never moved; she just stared out that window waiting for Dad to come. He said, I have a family. Then I didnt know what to do. His testimony was rooted in the Savior, Jesus Christ, and His ability to forgive, heal, and protect. 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. Id have given anything, but they still wouldnt come. Then they took this girl, after they had the picture of her before, and obtained the finest clothes that money could buy for her. 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. Genealogy profile for Vaughn J Featherstone. I was saying something, and it was coming out! Ive never had the Lord throw out a lifebuoy to me, let me swim toward it, and just as I got there pull it away from me. John E. Enslen, Journal Manuscript, January 25, 2010, in possession of author. Anything that started developing I just cut off. It is okay not to know, its okay that Elder McConkie didnt know, he just simply speculated. Then he laid his hands on my head, and he told me something that I didnt know until that day. Doug ran around to the door and saw it was locked. He retreated to a lonely room where he did some great mental struggling within himself. The bus driver looked down, saw this black driver, and started trying to force him off the road. 22. God bless each one of you, I pray from the depths of my soul as I ask a blessing upon you, in the name of Jesus Christ. 9. Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone an emeritus General Authority, former temple president, and beloved youth leader died Saturday night at his home in Bountiful, Utah. FAIR is controlled and operated by the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR). I think I learned the greatest lesson I have ever learned in my life that day. But the social pressure was intense. Many things cant be changed, and we have to live with them. Then I said, But you know, you need to develop a Job-like attitude. 10. And then it went rolling off through the universe. I couldnt move. vaughn j featherstone excommunicatedshortest water tower in the world. We are a volunteer organization. And Iwould humbly suggest to you, my young brothers and sisters, that if we do not know, then nobody knows, no matter how compelling their arguments or how reasonable their calculations. I was about thirty and I thought, Now I can get married. A short time later I found the fellow, and we fell in love and got married. He didnt sleep all that night, and when the morning came, he arose early and went over to the Buddhist priests home and said to him, I must find a diamond mine. McConkie also commented on the half-hour period of silence that follows the opening of the seventh seal in Revelation 8. I dashed over to church half an hour early, and it worked. Elder VaughnJ.FeatherstoneGiven at the Manti Temple in April1987, Kierans Mission Notes (website). Did Elder Featherstone believe he had apersonal revelation on the timing of the Second Coming? Youve put a time limit on the Lord. After the marriage, we went out to see my mother. Ask Mr. Parsons, the neighborhood grocer, if we could charge these groceries, and tell him we dont have any food. I didnt think the Lord would be pleased with my working, and we really didnt need both incomes, so I stopped working. I wouldnt dare tell you, Ill teach you how to live with it, because you would say, as Doug Snarr did, Youre no good! I dont like that answer. For example, there are[Page 312]several copies of the White Horse Prophecy aprophecy traditionally credited to JosephSmith but denounced by the president of the Church, JosephF.Smith, at the October1918 General Conference on the website and many more at the archives.11To avoid anyones thinking the prophecy was legitimate, Church Historian (and future president of the Church) Joseph FieldingSmith marked copies donated to the archives with phrases like not true, not to be accepted, and not aword of truth in it.12This is an exception. If Im fired from this, I dont know what Ill do., And then big, old, soft-hearted Doug said, If youll go over and apologize to that black driver, it will all be forgotten. So the bus driver went over and apologized to the black driver and got back in his bus, and it was all forgotten. But finally the facts were out, and he knew they were true. The family would gather together and say, Lets go to bed. The Atlanta Temple is the first temple in the South. 21. Introduction to Gospel Topics - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter He said, Your name is Douglas Snarr. I hadnt been baptized, and I was nine years old by this time. No portion of this site may be reproduced without the express written consent of The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, Inc. Any opinions expressed, implied, or included in or with the goods and services offered by FAIR are solely those of FAIR and not those of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I dont care what the handicaps are that you think are so severe; you can overcome them. This is Douglas Snarrs business. Several years ago I contacted a friend and mentor who had worked with Correlation for three decades but has been retired now for over a decade, about the Featherstone letter. And then the old Arab stopped telling the story and went back to straighten the pack on the camels back. JDK-8141210 : Very slow loading of JavaScript file with recent JDK For the first ten days of that course, we could not say one word. The priest said, This is where we got our mountains and hills and our valleys and our deep gorges. Why are you weeping? It also teaches that sexual relations within the . I didnt mind moving my arm because I was finally communicating. I went downstairs, and the teacher had us sit in a big half-circle. I knew I couldnt for fear that someone would see my shoes. I had a pair of shoes that Id wear to church. Just to slightly correct something that Dennis wrote, nobody knows who the angel was in Gethsemane. All year long that teacher told me things I didnt know a thing about. But he also said, There are a lot of things I do know about. 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. by Vaughn J Featherstone . I also recall an incident that ties into the subject Id like to lead into in a minute. Many of you are covenant children. This was incorrect, since it was Michael, or Adam, that Elder McConkie is on record as teaching as the identity of this angel. I demand a mans vengeance! He pulled up to a red light and waited. I think its mentioned in Dr. Carlton Maltzs bookThe Power of Self-Image Psychology. 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. Then I also recall the Scotchman who bought his wife an X ray of his chest for their anniversary. He said, I just suggest you get married. So I did, and we have this lovely family. Everything had hinged on that one interview, and God had been there. Vaughn J. Featherstone's humble beginnings gave him an intense appreciation for the gospel and its blessings. I threw my arms around her and said, Id give anything in the world to have had you there with us this morning. She just couldnt make it. Enslen, To Any Who May Be Interested., 16. To work day and night for it, I see it in their eyes and feel it when they speak, and they must pay for it and be punished. Ido not mean to suggest that Featherstones letter is aforgery or that it has been repudiated by Church authorities. 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! 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