This Used To Count As Home Teaching

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...

There are loads of interesting aspects to Church history. For example, did anyone else use seer stones? You could ponder that all day - or the times Church members used priesthood to cease storms  - that doesn't get talked about enough. And then, of course, there is the persistent wondering of whether or not LDS prophets still see Christ ( most have! ). Again, these are just a few random Church-related points worth rabbit-holing. Without a doubt, the lost 116 pages from the Book of Mormon deserves a place on that list. What was on them? Do they still exist? Could charred but legible chunks of them still be lining a 19 th century fire pit? For those who don’t know, these 116 pages were the first portion of the Book of Mormon - translated with Martin Harris acting as scribe. Harris really wanted to show his wife what he was working on. He asked to borrow the 116, was divinely told no twice - but then a third time he was finally granted permission with se...