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5 Angels and One Banana - More Latter-Day Saint Angelic Encounters

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Angelic sighting or visitations are not an uncommon occurrence in the Church. Remember how Joseph Smith used to accurately tell people when they would see the glorious white-garbed visitors ? Angels have also been known to make some eyes pop and jaws drop at temple dedications , and Tabernacle Christmas concerts . This list has even more angel encounters. Some of them I was already familiar with, but some I was not. My favorite of the bunch is here first – it is both new to me and fascinating. It happened to an 8-year-old boy, and the people telling his story really tried to keep it in his words: 1) George A. Thomas “When I went into the dining room, Aunt Elvira told me it was too cold for me to remain out of bed undressed, so she said I could go to the pantry to take a banana and go back to bed until she got time to help me dress. Just as I was about to go into bed in the front room I saw a personage coming slowly down feet first through the ceiling be...