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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
I wanted to share with all of you the following account from Parley P. Pratt. Elder Pratt's wife passed away before the revelation that families can be together forever:
It was at this time in Philadelphia in 1839 that I received from Joseph Smith the first idea of eternal family organization and the eternal union of the sexes and those inexpressibly enduring relationships which none but the highly intellectual the refined and pure in heart know how to prize and which are at the very foundation of every thing worthy to be called happiness.
Till then I had learned to esteem kindred affections and sympathies as appertaining solely to this transitory state as something from which the heart must be entirely weaned in order to be fitted for its heavenly state. It was Joseph Smith that taught me how to prize the enduring relationship to father and mother, husband and wife of brother and sister, son and daughter. It was from him that I learned that the wife of my bosom might be secured to me for time and all eternity and that the refined sympathies and affections which endured us to each other emanated from the fountain of divine eternal love. It was from him that I learned that we might cultivate these affections and grow and increase in the same through all eternity.
I had loved before, but I knew not why, but now I loved with a pureness and intens
ity of elevated exalted feeling which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean. I felt that God was my Heavenly Father, indeed that Jesus was my brother, and that the wife of my bosom was an immortal eternal companion, a kind ministering angel given to me as a comfort and a crown of glory forever and ever, in short I could now love with the spirit and with the uinderstanding also.
ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFULLY SAID? THAT IS EXACTLY THE WAY I FEEL.
I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A NICE VALENTINES DAY. LOVE DAD
It was at this time in Philadelphia in 1839 that I received from Joseph Smith the first idea of eternal family organization and the eternal union of the sexes and those inexpressibly enduring relationships which none but the highly intellectual the refined and pure in heart know how to prize and which are at the very foundation of every thing worthy to be called happiness.
Till then I had learned to esteem kindred affections and sympathies as appertaining solely to this transitory state as something from which the heart must be entirely weaned in order to be fitted for its heavenly state. It was Joseph Smith that taught me how to prize the enduring relationship to father and mother, husband and wife of brother and sister, son and daughter. It was from him that I learned that the wife of my bosom might be secured to me for time and all eternity and that the refined sympathies and affections which endured us to each other emanated from the fountain of divine eternal love. It was from him that I learned that we might cultivate these affections and grow and increase in the same through all eternity.
I had loved before, but I knew not why, but now I loved with a pureness and intens
ity of elevated exalted feeling which would lift my soul from the transitory things of this grovelling sphere and expand it as the ocean. I felt that God was my Heavenly Father, indeed that Jesus was my brother, and that the wife of my bosom was an immortal eternal companion, a kind ministering angel given to me as a comfort and a crown of glory forever and ever, in short I could now love with the spirit and with the uinderstanding also.ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFULLY SAID? THAT IS EXACTLY THE WAY I FEEL.
I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A NICE VALENTINES DAY. LOVE DAD
Monday, February 4, 2008
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU. YOU ARE THE BEST. YOU ARE MY FAVORITE FOUR YEAR OLD IN THE WHOLE WORLD. HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY. LOVE GRANDPAFriday, February 1, 2008
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