by Walter Penning | Jun 1, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
I would like to address the work of salvation through family history. Now before you roll your eyes and think “Not again…not another message about family history,” let me say that you are already doing better than you think you are. Many of you are having memorable...
by Walter Penning | Apr 13, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
What’s in a name? I start with this simple question because the answer is both surprising and significant, and it may change your life. I remember a story told about President George Albert Smith: When President Smith was young, his deceased grandfather George A....
by Walter Penning | Mar 9, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
The following experience happened to my great grandfather when he was just a boy. This story helped me connect to him particularly when I was young. My grandfather shares this experience in his journal: I will now relate a wonderful experience which I had while we...
by Walter Penning | Feb 3, 2016 | Walter Penning: Arise and Be Men
Frankly, I can say with delight that I adore Moses’ scriptural account in Moses chapter 1 verse 39, where we are told that God’s work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. Read the verse again slowly and think about what he is saying....
by Delisa Hargrove | Oct 16, 2015 | Delisa Hargrove: Applying Gospel Principles
It seems like every Mormon family has an aunt or cousin who has done “all of the genealogy for the family.” For my maternal grandfather’s line, that person is mom’s cousin Fawn. She’s connected family ties for years and years, yet I’ve never heard her say,...