BYU Speeches I went downstairs, and the teacher had us sit in a big half-circle. His name is Douglas Snarr. If life seems all empty and useless without it, This Buddhist priest told how the Almighty put his finger in a bank of fog and started whirling it around faster and faster until it burst into a solid mass of flame. I didnt want tolive withthe problem! Twice I have heard him say that he heard Elder McConkie say that Gabriel, or Noah, was the angel that appeared in the garden of Gethsemane to strengthen the Savior as he underwent the atonement, or suffering for sin, of all mankind. And so this sweet fellow said, All right, Ill speak at your sacrament meeting. The whole night before his talk, Doug hardly slept at all. I watched, but, do you know, not one of those eight-and nine-year-old children in that class laughed at me. Anyway, this little gal came in, looked at me, and said, Is that you? It has not. Did they ask for this calamity? https://byui-media.ldscdn.org/byui_ft/devo_audio/15_10_2013_Devo.mp3. Id see that great high priest and store owner look at the letter, then look down at me, and tears would come to his eyes. Is there any doubt of their devotion . I remember the story of a famous artist who painted a beautiful portrait. I even avoided trying to speak or taking a chance. The professor went down the whole list and said, Wed like to have Douglas Snarr come up and give the opening prayer., Doug said, I made my way out and walked down, and I stood in front with my head bowed. Many years laterin wretched poverty, having been driven all the way across Europe, not a penny left, in rags, heartsick, weary, tiredhe stood on the bay of Barcelona. I was heartsick. I am just so excited to live in this day and to be part of the wrapping-up process. Many among Montemayors audience have come away with the impression that Elder Featherstones letter received the official sanction of the Churchs leadership. 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. But finally the facts were out, and he knew they were true. At one time the bishop felt impressed to give me a blessing, and he promised me that I would have a man child, that he would be a priesthood holder, and that he would do a great service for the Church. Ali Hafid answered, Then I will go. And he went home and sold his farm and collected the money. Go ahead.6Montemayor also states that the copy he cites comes from Church headquarters.7In ablurb below the video, he states that the letter is found on the church website. 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. I want to be excommunicated from the Church., When I heard this sweet soul tell me that story, I want to tell you I sat there and wept with her. Soon after high school, Vaughn J. Featherstone married his sweetheart, Merlene Miner, in the Salt Lake Temple. 218 University Press Building We appreciated your talkand so forth. You must simply trust in him as Job did. If Im fired from this, I dont know what Ill do., And then big, old, soft-hearted Doug said, If youll go over and apologize to that black driver, it will all be forgotten. So the bus driver went over and apologized to the black driver and got back in his bus, and it was all forgotten. We will take you home tonight. This is also how[Page 313]Enslen stated it was used by Church leaders in the South in the years after 1983.15The language in these two portions of Featherstones letter are distinct. He went to the door and knocked. Several years ago I contacted a friend and mentor who had worked with Correlation for three decades but has been retired now for over a decade, about the Featherstone letter. Doug ran around to the door and saw it was locked. The woman I was talking to said, You know, Doug, youve got a great story to tell. He has been a general authority of the church since 1972. Isnt it satisfactory? Doug was in Washington, D.C., not too long ago, riding in a taxicab. To watch the entire presentation entitled, "7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE" by Millennial Reign, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klg4a. Were called to the harvest, Its the day of the South! (BrettD.Dowdle, correspondence with the author, April 30, 2020. I cant tell you what it means to me to be on the Saviors team in this very critical day. All of a sudden Carol came down the spiral staircase in a beautiful dress and said, Well, Daddy, thats Douglas Snarr. This letter serves as Montemayors final piece of evidence for an imminent second coming. I know every bird in the forest. So can we use this scientific data to extrapolate that the Second Coming is likely to occur during the next few years, or the next decade, or the next century? Job was a great soul, and he said, Though he [God] slay me, yet will I trust in him (Job 13:15). Not one of them looked at me. MS22631. This quote is taken fromCamelot. Mother would come to me, hand me a list, and say, Vaughn, would you take this up to the store? Maybe their noses are bigger, or maybe their ears are a little bigger. VaughnJ.Featherstone, To My Beloved Fellow Saints in the Twenty-First Century, (letter, April 6, 1983). Vaughn J. Featherstones humble beginnings gave him an intense appreciation for the gospel and its blessings. I cant tell you how embarrassed I was. Finally Id walk up to him and hand him this note, and hed read it: Dear Mr. Parsons, We dont have any food in the house. His family then settled in Salt Lake City when he was five. Iwould suggest the most likely explanation for Elder Featherstones assumption that the twenty-first century readers of his letter would have lived through the Second Coming was that he shared the belief of Elder McConkie and Elder Lund that the seventh seal would open in 2000 CE and that it would not be much longer before the Second Coming occurred. Dont go drinking up the water first. Monday nights were reserved for family night, and Friday nights were exclusively for Sister Featherstone. Isnt that easy? I told a group of Aaronic Priesthood holders out in the congregation tonight, if they are pure in heart, they may . There would be drunks and others lying on benches out in the park, but Id go out and put the newspaper over my arm while reading or talking to myself, with my arm moving back and forth under the paper with every syllablepracticing! I wouldnt dare tell you, Ill teach you how to live with it, because you would say, as Doug Snarr did, Youre no good! I dont like that answer. This is a great life, and it is a marvelous time to live. If it does not, it is not. So I expected that his promises would take place. If dogged and grim, you besiege and beset it, youll get it! Youve been married five years. We can imagine what General Conference must be like, to have the Savior address the people. Featherstone was born in Stockton, Tooele County, Utah. The passengers agreed that the driver had been trying to force the black cabbie off the road. Collected copies of the white horse prophecy, circa 19021970, Church History Library. As it did, it went through other fog banks, and the dew settled on the earth, and the crust began to form. A short time after that I went one day to see my sweet mother. Later on my mother and father were divorced. M.RussellBallard, When Shall These Things Be? BYU Devotional, March 12, 1996. His problem was solved. I guess he noticed this, because all of a sudden he took his turban off and waved it around to get my attention, but I just ignored him. His teacher said, Well, my goodness, Timmy, youre a genius!, A genius is someone who knows a great deal about one thing.. I could feel it under my arms. My older brother was the only one at the wedding from our side of the family. The video presents alast days timeline that places the Second Coming in the very near future. When authors state that items come from the Church or Church Headquarters or Salt Lake one does have to be cautious because that is often a way to sneak something past the unwary or give them an air of authority they do not actually possess. In 1 Kings, chapter 3, we read, And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that . We cant add one featherweight of burden to our mothers heart. And so wed go to bed hungry. 218 University Press Building Isnt there something splendid about light? We went to one of the seven presidents of the First Council of the Seventy, and he gave my husband a blessing as he ordained him. Let us consider an experience that happened to GordonB.Hinckley, then an apostle, only five years before Elder Featherstone wrote his letter. Help me to say the right thing today. After she had finished, I said, You know, I really dont think you want to be excommunicated. God bless each one of you that youll feel your sense of worth, that youll understand who you really are. Finally they even operated a little bit, did some plastic surgery, and may have taken a hump out of a place or two. Those of you who read this letter have witnessed the second coming of Christ, the day for which we have long awaited. Perhaps, but before I was a genius I was a drudge. Alexander Hamilton said, All the genius I may have is merely the fruit of labor and thought. Dorothea Brand wrote a whole book,Wake Up and Live, to get across one simple formula for success: Act as though it were impossible to fail. Shouldnt we in Gods kingdom act as though it were impossible to fail? It is simply not an approved publication of the Church and its contents are only the opinions of the author, even though he be a general authority. I demand a mans vengeance! She has since joined and been through the temple, but then she wasnt even a member of the Church. 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. Horns were honking in back, and pretty soon a policeman came over and said, Whats going on here?, Doug answered, This man tried to force that black driver off the road. So I had decided I would pay for the course myself. Then, one Sunday about nine weeks later, I had a regression. He would continue to do so all through her life. The next morning I would get up, and I couldnt tell but that she had been up all night. Featherstone spoke on the importance of temple attendance in the last dispensation, when "Satan has unleashed every evil." He was also quoted as saying, "I believe 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. As he did, he saw something glistening in the sand. After his senior year, he had earned enough money in that business to come to BYU. I told some seminary students the other day about an experience I had after getting glasses. The Vaughn J. Featherstone Letter About the Second Coming Christian Homestead 13.8K subscribers Join Subscribe 248 Share Save 10K views 10 months ago KANSAS Vaughn J. Featherstone's. As it formed, after it had gone through fog bank after fog bank, some of the inner eruption came forth. Its great! What I am saying is that if the Lord will take a scroungy little kid like that, who had to wear nurses shoes to church and had to go and beg for groceries, and if he will make him a high councilor or a stake president or the second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, can you believe what he would do for you? Id get to the store and go in and walk around the aisles trying to avoid Mr. Parsons, who by the way (I didnt know at the time) was a high priest in our ward. We are civilized! Where should I look for one?, The Buddhist priest, having been awakened early in the morning and not feeling too pleasant, said, You look for a river between high mountains, and the river will flow on white sands, and there you will find diamonds., There is, replied the priest, and there are many of them, and you will find them. Doug asked, Whats going on here?, The driver answered, I guess this guy doesnt like blacks. The taxi driver slowed down, and the bus went on down the street. He wanted that kind of conviction for himself, so he began seriously reading the Book of Mormon. The masters only know whose work is good, and they will choose mine. Your parents were married in the temple, and so you are born in the covenant. I think youre getting the message. The family would gather together and say, Lets go to bed. It was found in a baking powder can wired to the handle of an old pump that offered the only hope of drinking water in a very long, seldom-used trail across the Armagosa Desert. This fellow was just a little incensed at this, and so he got out of his car, walked back to the Volkswagen and said, I dont take that kind of guff out of nobody. The door opened, and the other fellow started getting out, and he kept getting out and kept getting out, and when he was all the way out he was six feet five inches and 240 pounds. 28. It might be seven years, or fifteen years, or maybe not in this life. Emmawas born on October 18 1909, in Mammoth, Juab, Utah. I can name every single one, and there are hundreds of them in the woods around our house. A bishop from a ward in a distant city came to see me one day and said, Weve got a woman in our ward who would like to be excommunicated., I said, All right. Copyright 1997-2023 by The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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. Could it possibly be civilized to love myself above all? And all that you dream and you scheme is about it; The letter is addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church and is written with the expectation that these future Saints will have been alive for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. 2022 FAIR Conference videos are now available to watch! He has also been the president of the Logan Utah Temple in Logan, Utah. For God could not make Antonio Stradivaris violins without Antonio. . My teacher didnt look. Nobody was there. McConkie also commented on the half-hour period of silence that follows the opening of the seventh seal in Revelation 8. I didnt ask for the blessing; he volunteered it and gave it to me. You are a royal generation. 21 relations. Then the little fellow said to him, Isnt there some kind of guff youdogive that Icantake?. All he has to do is make his own rules and then live by them, and he will succeed. It really does come forth when you start serving people. Someone who had such an obstacle was a young man by the name of Timmy. Could this be interpreted to mean that such aperiod will elapse after the commencement of the seventh thousand-year period and before the outpouring of the woes about to be named?25This is important to the timing suggested by Masayoshi Montemayor as well. 1. Something went wrong. Ali Hafid was rich. Featherstone spoke on the importance of temple attendance in the last dispensation, when "Satan has unleashed every evil." He was also quoted as saying, "I believe 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. (This is the part I am embarrassed even to tell you.) Those wanting a fairly recent taste of his teachings and speaking style might enjoy listening. Pronunciation of Vaughn J Featherstone with 1 audio pronunciation and more for Vaughn J Featherstone. Over at church I am somebody. For while God gives them skill, I give them instruments to play upon, God choosing me to help him. Cobbled together by Dennis B. Horne Note: In his earlier years, in some talks given in the 1970s, as a counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone referenced a marvelous spiritual experience he received.The below contains both published text and newly transcribed wording that was withheld for whatever reason (perhaps felt to be too . This was incorrect, since it was Michael, or Adam, that Elder McConkie is on record as teaching as the identity of this angel. He answered, Well, were only taking one per year per ward. I guess we had fifteen or eighteen boys of mission age, and I couldnt afford to go. I would drag that wagon as slow as a human being could possibly walk up the street. Three or four weeks later, the old Buddhist priest came by, entered the house, and soon spotted this rock on the mantel. You can overcome the problem and someday youll speak as I am speaking. I started to cry because somebody had told me I didnt have to live with the problem I had. I dont care what the handicaps are that you think are so severe; you can overcome them. I would like to change it just enough so that it wont possibly be recognized, but the facts are true. You just want God to know that youre really serious. The bus driver looked down, saw this black driver, and started trying to force him off the road. She lived on a knoll in a beautiful colonial home. Be it sin or not sin, they betray me in their hearts, and thats far sin enough. The words wouldnt come. I went back to the taxi and told the driver to take me to that address. People Projects Discussions . Would you mind charging fifty pounds of flour, a bucket of lard, some side pork, and a few things? Thats the only reason I am here., I said, Would you just take a few minutes and explain the story to me?. P.S. We now have more than 110,000 members of the Church in this area. Featherstone was born in Stockton, Tooele County, Utah. Amen. Fixed: Release in which this issue/RFE has been fixed.The release containing this fix may be available for download as an Early Access Release or a General Availability Release. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. Elder Featherstone also wrote many books, particularly for youth of the Church, about gospel topics for which he felt strongly. When I was your age I had a problem very similar to yours. BYU Speeches Youve put a time limit on the Lord. 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.
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