Halloween Poem

AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Since this is the time for goblins and bats
Halloween spirits and ghosts and cats
Weird happenings and witches brew
These are things we wish for you
May the only ghost that comes to stay
Be the Holy Ghost to guide your way.
May the only spirits you chance to meet
Be the spirit of love and warm friends sweet
These are you Halloween wishes for you
May God bless you in all you do!

HOW I FINALLY TAUGHT THE BIG GUY A LESSON

I did not provoke the fight, so I feel no remorse for what I was forced to do. We were arguing, and since I was right and he was wrong, he decided to fight to cover his stupidity. He swung at me first, but because I was in top condition, I was able to act quickly and block the punch neatly with my head. I then jumped to the ground, knocking him down on top of me. I placed my ear in his mouth and poked his finger several times with my eye. His teeth hurt so much from the strenght of my ear, that he became irate and tried to kick me, but I cleverly blocked the onslaught with my ribs and face. I scrambled to my feet and ran to my car in hopes I would get away and save this man from my deadly hands. Before I could start the car he pulled me from the still open door. I then proceeded to swing at him, but only managed to hit myself in the head. To this I said: "what's this? Two against one?" That was the final straw - I lost control! There will be no mercy!!! Taking him in my death grip, I pounded him in the knee with my stomach - Then hit him two or three times hard in the fist with my teeth! He had had it! I could tell. After that he didn't even try to pick me up off the ground. HE WAS TOO CHICKEN!!!!

PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING IN LIFE!!

Resurrection Experience of Zeke Johnson

Resurrection Experience of Zeke Johnson
Digitized By Glen W. Chapman

I have been requested to relate an experience I had in 1908 cr1909 in San Juan County.
I was just making' a home in Blanding and the whole county there was covered with trees and sagebrush. I was working hard to clear the ground to plant a few acres of corn. We had five acres cleared and started to plant the corn. My little boy Roy, 7 or 8 years old was there to help me plant the corn.
I'd plow around the piece and then he 'd plant the furrow with corn, Then I'd cover it and plow again. While I was plowing on that piece of ground, I discovered there were ancient houses there, that is the remnant of them. As I was plowing around I noticed that my plow had turned out the skeleton of a small child. the skull and the backbone, most of the bones of course were decayed and gone. Part of the skeleton was there, so I stopped immediately as my plow had passed it a little. I turned and looked back against the bar of the plow between the handles. As I was looking at that little skeleton that I had plowed out and wondering, all of a sudden to my surprise I saw the bones begin to wiggle and they began to change position and to take on different color and within a minute there lay a beautiful little skeleton. It was a perfect little skeleton.
Then I saw the inner parts of the natural body coming in--the entrails, etc. I saw the flesh coming on and I saw the skin come on the body when the inner parts of the body was complete. A beautiful head of hair adorned the top of the head and in about a half a minute after the hair was on the head, it had a beautiful crystal decoration in the hair . It was combed beautifully and parted on one side. In about a half a minute after the hair was on the head, the child raised up on her feet. She was lying a little on her right side with her back toward me. Because of this I was able to discern the gender of the child, but as she raised up, a beautiful robe came down over her left shoulder and I saw it must be a girl.
She looked at me and I looked at her and for a quarter of a minute, we just looked at each other
smiling. Then my ambition was to get hold of her, I said "Oh you beautiful child," and I reached as if I would embrace her and she disappeared.
That was all I saw and I stood there and I wondered and I thought for a few minutes. My little
boy was wondering why I was there because he was down at the other end of the row anxious to come and plant the corn. Now, I couldn't tell that story to anyone because it was so mysterious to me and such. Why should I have such a miraculous experience. I couldn't feature a human being in such a condition as to accidentally plow that little body out and see it come alive. A body of a child about five to seven years old, I'd say.
I couldn't tell that story to anyone until finally one day I met a dear friend of mine, Stake
Patriarch, Wayne H. Redd of Blanding. He stopped me on the street and said "Zeke, you have had an experience on this Mesa you won't tell. I want you to tell it to me." Well, I told it to him. Then he had me tell it to other friends and since then I have told it in four temples in the United States and many meeting houses and many socials, fast meetings, and at conference times.
I wondered, and it worried me for years as to why I was allowed to see it, a common man like me - uneducated. Why was I, just a common man, allowed to see such a miraculous manifestation of
God's power.
One day as I was walking alone with my hoe on my shoulder going to hoe some corn, something
said, "Stop under the shade of that tree for a few minutes and rest." This just came to me and I thought I would, so I stopped there and this was given to me.
It was in answer to my prayer. I prayed incessantly for an answer as to why I was privileged to
see that resurrection. I was told why. When the child was buried there it was either in time of war with the different tribes or it was winter time when the ground was frozen and they had no tools to dig deep graves. If it were during time of war they couldn't possibly take time to dig a deep grave. They just planted that little body as deep as they could under the circumstances. When it was done the sorrowing mother knew that it was such a little shallow grave, that in her sorrow she cried out to the little group that was present, "That little shallow grave, the first beast that comes along will smell her body and will dig her up and scatter her to the four winds. Her bones will be scattered all over these flats." There just happened to be a man present holding the priesthood (a Nephite or a Jaredite, I don't know which because they had both been in this country I've been in their houses and know it.) This man said, "Sister, calm your sorrows. Whenever that little body is disturbed or uncovered, the Lord will call her up and she will live. Since that time, I have taken great comfort, great cheer and consolation and satisfaction with praise in my heart and soul, until I haven't the words to express it, that it was I that uncovered that little body. Thank you for listening to me. I just can't tell this without crying.
Zeke Johnson
Son of Joel Hills John
This report was given to Glen W. Chapman the compiler By Bruce Johnson the grandson of Zeke
Johnson in the year of 1976.

Life

"Life is fragile and, therefore, should be handled with prayer." Pres. Harold B. Lee

This too shall pass!

Popcorn Parable

AUTHOR: Unknown

Behold, at the time of the harvest, the ears of corn did bring forth kernels which were dried and prepared for the popper's hand.

And then it was that the popper did take the kernels, all of which appeared alike unto him, and did apply the oil and heat.

And it came to pass that when the heat was on, some did explode with promise and magnify themselves an hundred-fold, and some did burst forth with whiteness which did both gladden the eye and satisfy the taste of the popper. And likewise some others did pop but not too much.

But lo, there were some that did just lie there and even though the popper's heat was alike unto all, they did bask in the warmth of the oil and did keep all they had for themselves. And so it came to pass that those which had given of themselves did bring joy and delight to many munchers, but those which kept of the warmth and did not burst forth were fit only to be cast into the pail and were thought of with hardness and disgust.

And thus we see that in the beginning that all appear alike, but when the heat is on, some come forth and give their all, while others fail to pop and become as chaft to be discarded and forgotten.

Dealing with Depression

Ways to overcome sorrow & depression
Taken from President Benson's message.

1. Repentance. Sin creates disharmony with God and is depressing to the spirit
2. Prayer. Prayer can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
3. Service. To loose yourself in righteous service can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems.
4. Work. Work's a blessing, not a doom. We should work to take care of spiritual, social, mental and physical needs
5. Health. The condition of the physical body can effect the spirit.
6. Reading. The Book of Mormon and words from the living prophet can give direction and comfort.
7. Blessing. In stressful times or critical events, one can seek a priesthood blessing.
8. Fasting. Periodic fasting can clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit
9. Friends. Ideally your family ought to be your closest friends. Seek your Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
10. Music. Inspiring music can fill the soul with peace & heavenly thoughts, or move one to righteous action.
11. Endurance. There are times you have to righteously hand on & outlast the devil until his depressive spirit leaves.
12. Goals. Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short and long range goals.

We believe in being OREOS

Author: Unknown

We believe in being OREOS
hOnest
tRue
chastE
benevOlent
virtuouS
and in doing good to all men!

Standard of Truth

The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; Persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every climb, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say, "The work is done."