I couldnt move. As he did, he saw something glistening in the sand. It is powerful in its vision of the future need of temples as a refuge from a wicked world. Isnt it satisfactory? 26. You swim and you swim farther, and you finally get there, but he always pulls it away. It doesnt matter what the problems are; we can overcome any of them if we just understand that we are creations of God, and each of us is somebody. Failure can be overcome, but a failure can suck the lifeblood from a persons ego and leave him useless to himself, his family, and his company., The woods are filled with losers, and they have a hundred different excuses why they lose, but Im not interested in talking to you at all about that today. Each of my shoes felt two feet in diameter. Featherstone spoke on the importance of temple attendance in the last dispensation, when Satan has unleashed every evil. He was also quoted as saying, Ibelieve we may well have living on the earth now, or very soon, the boy or babe who will be the prophet of the Church when the Savior comes. If you could hear Douglas Snarr talk today, you would find that he speaks about as fast as I do, and I speak very fast. One day a Buddhist priest came by Ali Hafids home, and together they sat by the fire. I surely dont know as much as all those people in that other class. Can you begin to understand how I feel about her? 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 stood up, put his arm out, and then he put it down. These things havent happened, so you expect them now. Were really excited about it.) These members, traditional Protestant and Catholic Christians are being prepared right now. The bus driver looked down, saw this black driver, and started trying to force him off the road. Iam not interested in refuting this idea, but it is based on aspeculative calculation of scripture rather than an independent revelation. He is very successful, and hes been a pushera driver. It is assumed that Church History Library patrons would be aware that documents housed at the Church History Library did not necessarily hold aChurch endorsement. The year 1986 could be the one were looking for. In a1979 devotional at BrighamYoung University, Elder Hinckley addressed this rumor and had this to say: Iassume that no one in the Church would think that amember of the Council of the Twelve would make such statements as these attributed to me. Let us consider an experience that happened to GordonB.Hinckley, then an apostle, only five years before Elder Featherstone wrote his letter. Based on aFebruary2001 devotional at BrighamYoung University, it appears that Featherstone remained convinced that the Second Coming would be in our present lifetimes. This quote is taken fromCamelot. Were proud. This was incorrect, since it was Michael, or Adam, that Elder McConkie is on record as teaching as the identity of this angel. (This is the part I am embarrassed even to tell you.) He said, I have a family. On April 6, 1983, Elder Featherstone drafted aletter addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church. For while God gives them skill, I give them instruments to play upon, God choosing me to help him. They can if theyre trained properly and if they have self-discipline. He was often open about these beliefs in away in which others might have been more cautious. Charity is the pure love of Christ, when you dont mind being embarrassed, when all you can think about is the good of the people. But it was irresistible; they had to look. Vaughn J. Featherstone graduated from South High School in Salt Lake City in 1949. No one likes that answer, and I dont think thats the right answer to give. I went back home that summer and, although there was a girl I was interested in [apparently the same little gal], I didnt go on one date. They said yes, and I was baptized. 2022 FAIR Conference videos are now available to watch! They had holes in the bottom sole, so Id cut out pieces of cardboard and slide them in as an insole. I hadnt been baptized, and I was nine years old by this time. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller. 2. A newspaper reporter covering the incident wanted to put it in the newspaper in a certain way, and so he simply had a little article there that said, Yesterday at Donald Grahams funeral, Blackey McGregor, one of the pallbearers, slipped into the open grave, fracturing a limb, bringing a gloom over the whole occasion. I hope we wont do that tonight. That isnt so. All of a sudden Carol came down the spiral staircase in a beautiful dress and said, Well, Daddy, thats Douglas Snarr. by Vaughn J Featherstone . When I was invited to accept this assignment, I looked to it as a great honor and one to which hopefully I can contribute something. Then he left his family with a nearby neighbor and went on this search for diamonds. Then she told me some of her experiences. Its the end of the drought! Elder Featherstone replied by providing aslightly revised copy of the statement, now titled, Holiness to the Lord. In this new version, abrief explanatory note was added following the comment that the last prophet was already born or would soon be born: Authors Note: This could take place deep into the 21st century or in arelatively few years. He said, Your name is Douglas Snarr. As a young man, Douglas Snarr developed a serious problem with stuttering and stammering. He came to a class, a very large class, and sat in the middle of the back row, where surely no one would call him to answer questions or do anything. So the fellow behind him shouted out the window, Move the trash can, pilgrim!. Finally the judges chose the girl that everybody agreed was the ugliest girl in America. P.S. I didnt ask for the blessing; he volunteered it and gave it to me. They talk about hard work and long hours. He also said, Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Michelangelo said, If people knew how hard I work to get my mastery, it wouldnt seem so wonderful at all. And Paderewski said, A genius? Every man must be tested. It shines through and makes him beautiful from within and without. I think youd be interested in a quote I oftentimes use to tell how I feel about my wife, but I want to use it to make a different point tonight. In fact, these include documents critical of the Church and others that have been repudiated by Church leaders. Then he said, Id like to give you a blessing also. I didnt ask for the blessing; he just volunteered it. 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. I didnt know what baptism was, but I wanted that little box checked off. But I havent, and so I have been embarrassed. A Wise and Understanding Heart. Enslen had only acquired this letter the week previous.9However, Enslen, who was serving in an Alabama stake presidency in 1983, recalled that he had heard Featherstone read this letter at ameeting in Alabama ashort time after the letters date.10We have no way of knowing whether Featherstone shared his letter with other general authorities, but its inclusion in the Church History Library does not imply it came with any official approval. 18. Vaughn J. Featherstones humble beginnings gave him an intense appreciation for the gospel and its blessings. I closed the door, went over and sat at the desk, and cried. Theyll laugh me to scorn over at church. And so I decided I wouldnt wear them, and I wouldnt go to church. He was poor because he was discontented, and he was discontented because he felt and feared that he was poor. There was that terrible attraction over at church. Iconsider the claims made about this letter from arecent viral video entitled 7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE.. And so I said, Very good, Spike, Id like to. So I went over to Primary with him, and after I had been there a short time, a year or so, I remember noticing a little box the Primary leaders checked off to show whether you were baptized or not. Then he stood about six inches in front of the bus. Copyright 1997-2023 by The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [Featherstone] wanted to make sure that it was good to go for the time capsule, so he sent acopy to Salt Lake, and the Brethren said, Great. But I want to tell you she was there the next time, when the next brother got married. shelved 790 times Showing 20 distinct works. 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Featherstone was born in Stockton, Tooele County, Utah. I think that if we went through this audience every single person would think of something hed change if he could. He tried to cause an accident. VaughnJ.Featherstone, The Incomparable Christ: Our Master and Model (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995), 45. I picked up another interesting quote from a fellow who was also a stutterer. Has Ali Hafid returned?, No, Ali Hafid has not returned, and thats not a diamond. I went home, and for the first time in my life I got down on my knees and started asking God for something. Thats a great story relating to what I would like to talk to you about tonight: the acres of diamonds each of you has as an individual. BYU Speeches It really does come forth when you start serving people. The document found that there were three April 6th Sundays leading up to the year 2000. I would imagine there are many young women here today who are concerned that Im twenty-two and Im not married yet or Im twenty-five and not married. That isnt all that serious.