This Used To Count As Home Teaching

Without a doubt, the best outside-the-Book-of-Mormon detail on Christ visiting the Americas is here!  It’s both amazing and specific! And rarely seen! It’s also got a quick summary in #10 below! But there are lots of less specific accounts of a light skinned gods with beards visiting the first inhabitants of the Americas. This does not mean that every single one of these accounts is actually Christ. It also does not mean that each of these legends is the same – but they all have a light skinned bearded god stopping by to say hello. Among other things. Let’s start in Chile: 1) Chilean Diety-Man The natives of Chili have the following tradition concerning one of their culture­ heroes, which closely resembles Messiah as he was revealed to the Nephites: Resales, in his inedited (i. e. unpublished) History of Chili, declares that the inhabitants of that extremely southern portion of America, situated at the distance of so many thousand miles from New Spain,

Oh boy I’ve got 7 good ones for you here. They are 7 stories that don’t have much in common except for their little-known status and their faith promoting possibilities. It also kind of shows that God will go after the one. But sometimes he will also go after the entire tribe:   1) A Dream Leads to the Conversion of the Shoshone Indians "Ten years after the Bear River Massacre of 1863, in which more than 300 Shoshone men, women, and children were killed by U.S. troops, a Shoshone elder had a dream. Chief Sagwitch, a survivor of the 1863 massacre, and other tribal elders felt the dream was inspired and was instructing the tribe to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After discussing the matter in great detail, the went looking for a Latter-day Saint (“Mormon”) man whom they trusted, George Washington Hill, who lived in Ogden, Utah. "After obtaining permission from Church president Brigham Young, Hill travelled to the tribal land