Around that time, the missionaries knocked on her door and she gladly let them in. The missionaries told me about the nice young couple that they had met and also that her boyfriend was a member. They had been living in our ward boundaries (every congregation is divided into what we call...
First Contact: The first meeting with a new race of beings from another planet. When the missionaries meet their investigator. First Ministry of Jesus Christ: Jesus having taken a physical body, and come to earth to establish the kingdom of God, was apparently incompetent and lacking in insp...
I found it very strange as I knew Jesus had discussed the subject with the Pharisees in Matthew 22, Jesus understanding of marriage existing after this life seemed in total opposition to what the missionaries where telling me.
All of this, in the Mormon book, opens the way for LDS missionaries to tell the Indians that they had been lied to, and that they should leave any "Gentile" church they might belong to -- in order to have their "curse of a skin of blackness" lightened by God's miraculous power. T...
Here, "Once again the Pilgrims came into contact with the monastic followers of Mother Ann Lee. Two Shaker missionaries from Union Village community near Lebanon [in adjacent Warren Co.] had been sent to visit Bullard's followers at Xenia [with an]... invitation [to visit with them]. ...
as they serve to show how easily ignorance and superstition are made to support whatever doctrines may be advanced -- no matter how revolting they may appear in the light of reason. An angel appeared to an ignorant man near Palmyra and directed him to dig at a designated place, with a pr...
When I was first baptized, I remember striving to jump from living a very telestial-type of life to a celestial change. Unfortunately, trying to leap frog progressive steps on the road of discipleship left me frustrated and feeling weak many times as I failed to keep little and big commandme...
Missionary guide: Training for missionaries. 1988. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Morain, William D. 1998. The sword of Laban: Joseph Smith Jr. and the dissociated mind. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. Morris, Larry E. 2005. "I should have an ...
Although women sometimes accompanied their husbands on proselytizing missions, the church did not specifically invite women to serve as missionaries, or "certify" them as such, prior to 1898.58 The church did, however, "call" women to do other types of "mission work." 54. There were ...
Joseph Smith sending missionaries to Texas is viewed through the psychedelic lens in attempting to acquire a steady supply of peyote. After Smith’s death, the sharp drop off of visionary experiences in factions of Mormonism is particularly noteworthy. Frederick M. Smith, grandson of Joseph, ...