Familial Research and Development

  I was 16 when I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (March 21, 1970). After Sunday school, I would go home with the Canon’s so I could get a ride to Choir practice. Saved my dad gas taking me over to the church and let me get some more church in. Bishop E. Jerald Haws’s wife with the chorister. She had us sing a song by the Lettermen (originally from Joan Baez) I had never heard before. This song spoke to my soul. A couple years before I heard this song, I had read the New Testament and from reading Christ’s words, the Spirit had conveyed to me how He thought and felt towards others. Singing this song brought back all those tender, sweet feelings of my Savior, how He felt about me and how He felt toward others. ALL others.   No Man is an Island   No man is an island, no man stands alone Each man's joy is joy to me Each man's grief is my own We need one another, so I will defend Each man as my brother Each man as my friend ...

 I started listening to a 55 minute talk by Ezra Taft Benson. The scales hiding the darkness of socialism, liberalism, progressive movement and communism began to fall from my eyes and I saw things much more clearly than I had ever before. I began looking for a pdf of his talk. Surely something as powerful and applicable in our current arena of civil unrest could be found, right? I couldn't find it and I can usually find just about any document. The background of the video (thanks to First Vision, Gilbert Howe for making America On Path To Destruction available on YouTube) looks like the Tabernacle Organ on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. The audience appears to be a gathering of patriots-not a gathering of Saints. “Ezra Taft Benson speaks in 1965 to a large group gathered in Salt Lake City. He speaks as a citizen of the United States, and the former Secretary of Agriculture under President Eisenhower. This is in black and white, it’s very old but very prophetic of our time. It...