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The Best 3 Nephite Story Ever Told

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You may have heard three Nephite stories before. Remember these ones? They are much cooler than these Cain sighting stories . The Nephite stories usually involve an unexpected appearance, a heavenly interaction and a mysterious disappearance. Most of the stories don’t go beyond a few paragraphs. The story of Robert Edge, however, is incredibly long and detailed. It’s the most detailed of such stories I’ve ever seen. And it first appeared, as far as I can tell, in the Millenial Star on 21 June 1880 . ( http://www.belnapfamily.org/LDS_Millennial_Star_vol_42_(1880-06-21)_p399.pdf ) What that tells us is that this story was at least believed enough, back when it was first told, to make it into a pretty major church periodical. However you feel about 3 Nephite stories – this is a fun read. Now on with it! “One calm, sunny day, in the month of May, 1878, a supposed clap of thunder directly over the city of Lexington, Henderson County, Tennessee, rebounding from the ...

You Lose Something, You Pray To Find It, You See It In Your Head: God’s Tool Box Part 2

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Part 2? Well what happened to God’s Tool Box Part 1? That one, FYI, pertains to panoramic visions that seem to get handed out like taffy at a parade. You can read it here. This tool box entry, though, is about visions you see in your head when you pray to find something that’s been lost. This, apparently, gets handed out slightly more than taffy at a parade. It gets handed out like… like… like casual Plato references by a college kid in his second week of Philosophy 101. Or something. It really does seem like a fairly common phenomenon. But maybe I just notice it because it happened to me. I haven’t ever published a personal experience on here before, but as I see this experience happen in other people’s lives too, I wanted to shine a light on it. It’s a dim light, mind you, as I’m pretty sure my entire readership is two Romani guys in southern Slovakia. Getting back on track here - everyone builds their tower of testimony on their own, different,...