Friday, November 25, 2011

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the thing has changed but our ability to do it has increased.”

Thursday, September 1, 2011

The first picture of Joseph Smith

Here is the first picture of Joseph Smith. They said he had just gotten out of jail after 8 months and was very thin. He is in his early 30’s…. (I guess a lot of people are saying they don’t know if this is really him but my teacher last night said that after exhuming his body and studying his death mask that the LDS church believes it is an authentic daguerreotype)

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Monday, August 1, 2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Nanny Poo

Lauren Poo

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Friday, July 22, 2011

Thursday, July 21, 2011

That soul who on Jesus hath leaned for repose
I cannot—I will not desert to its foes.
That soul, ’tho all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.6

Notes

1. Information on the family of Phinehas and Wealthy Dewey Richards, as well as

other members of the Richards’ family is found in Joseph Grant Stevenson, comp.,

Richards Family History, 3 vol., (Provo: Stevenson Genealogical Center, 1977-1991).

Specifically, see “Phinehas Richards” by Dorothy Streeper in Richards Family History,

1:110-266.

2.Secondary literature dealing exclusively with the Haun’s Mill episode include

Alexander L. Baugh, “The Haun’s Mill Massacre and the Extermination Order of

Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs,” Religious Studies Center Newsletter 12 (September

1997): 1-5; Baugh, “A Rare Account of the Haun’s Mill Massacre: The Reminiscence of

Willard Gilbert Smith,” Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation Newsletter 18/19

(Summer/Fall 1998): 1-4; Alvin K. Benson, “The Haun’s Mill Massacre: Some Examples

of Tragedy and Superior Faith,” Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History:

Missouri, 105-18; Alma R. Blair, “The Haun’s Mill Massacre,” BYU Studies 13 (Autumn

1972): 62-67; Blair, “The Haun’s Mill Massacre,” Courage: A Journal of History, Thought,

and Action 2 (Summer 1972): 503-07; Blair, “The Haun’s Mill Massacre,” in Daniel H.

Ludlow, ed. Encyclopedia of Mormonism: The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedure of

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 5 Vols. (New York: Macmillian Publishing

Company, 1992), 1:577; S. A. Burgess, “The Massacre at Haun’s Mill,” Saints’ Herald 88

(9 August 1941): 1002-04; Andrew Jenson, “Haun’s Mill Massacre,” The Historical Record

7 (December 1888): 671-84; and Stephen C. LeSueur, The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri

(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987), 162-68. Additional non-published studies

of the massacre include Leland H. Gentry, “The Haun’s Mill Massacre,” A History of

the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri From 1836 to 1839 (Ph.D. dissertation,

Brigham Young University, 1965), 288-311; and Alexander L. Baugh, “The Massacre at

Haun’s Mill,” in A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri

(Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, 1996), 253-98.

3. George S. Richards was killed while in the blacksmith shop where it was reported

that he was shot in the head and died instantly. Baugh, “The Massacre at Haun’s Mill,”

425.

4. Richards, 1:127.

5. Several narratives about Amanda Barnes Smith experiences exist, including;

Amanda Barnes Smith, “Reminiscence,” in Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom

(New York: n.p. 1877), 121-132; Emmeline B. Wells, “Amanda Smith,” Woman’s

38 Nauvoo Journal

Exponent 9 (1 April 1881): 165; (15 April 1881): 173; (1 May 1881): 181-82; (15 May

1881):189-90; and “Journal of Amanda Barnes Smith,” typescript, Special Collections,

Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1-5.

6. “Hymn 82,” A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of the Latter Day Saints

(Kirtland, Ohio: Printed by F. G. Williams & Co., 1835), 112-13, 7th stanza. Among present

day Mormons the hymn is known by the title, “How Firm a Foundation,” The

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Hymns (Deseret Book Company, 1985) 85.

7. John Hammer, “Reminiscence,” in Lyman Omer Littlefield, Reminiscences of

Latter-day Saints (Logan, Utah: The Utah Journal Co., 1888), 73.

Site of the community surrounding Haun’s Mill, near Far West, Missouri

during the Commemoration on 30 October 1998

Photograph by Maurine Carr Ward

Haun’s Mill site on Shoal Creek

Courtesy LDS Historical Archives

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Road to Emmaus

Sunday, July 17, 2011

This is so cute....

Friday, July 15, 2011

Pretty Utah

Purdy Sundance


Spooky Cabin by Sundance, Youtaw


It's a rock........

Tea for 2 - LOL @ Grand America in SLC


Purdy Anniversary Flowers

80's Day at Insight

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Friday, July 8, 2011

 
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The BEST parents in the world!

 
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I love my Mom.....

 
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Amanda's Journal

 
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Our sweet mother -

 
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Dad and Jeff - Jeff was so happy to be there....

 
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