Quick Clips:

Sister Eyring passed away.

The Church just released recommendations for Sunday meetings on Christmas Eve.

The new Orem temple is having an open house.

Are Latter-day Saint women oppressed?

Yunga Webb wants to help everyone sing the hymns with more joy and confidence.

Bonnie H. Cordon to serve as new Southern Virginia University president

 

Famous Mormons: MLB Playoffs Edition

MATT

Which star baseball player is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

Nathaniel Lowe

Bryce Harper

Yordan Álvarez

 

Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal:

MATT

The Restore Conference by Faith Matters was recently held at the Sandy Expo Center.

SAM

More details are coming out about what Tim Ballard did.

SHAWN

As part of their homecoming festivities, BYU is hosting a women’s empowerment event. It is interesting that there will be an SI Swim Panel with Swimsuit Models followed by a Cougarette performance, and a panel with the Relief Society General President.

MATT

These Men Say Their Utah Therapist Touched Them Inappropriately During Sessions Paid for by the LDS Church

SAM

Latter-day Saint leaders issue statement calling violence in Middle East ‘abhorrent’, but Rabbi Avremi Zippel said that the statement from the church leaders "missed the mark," because it didn't mention the terror experienced by the people of Israel.

SHAWN

Latter-day Saints Missionaries Showed Up To Support BYU At TCU

 

Mormons Doing Goodly:

North Logan is hosting their annual pumpkin walk.

 

This Week in Mormon History

85 years ago Oct 17, 1938 “Some unfortunate and untoward incidents following the giving of endowments to wives of Church members who have not been through the temple, and to the wives of non-members, have brought this matter again in review by the Council of the First Presidency and the Twelve. ...Hereafter you will not give a recommend, under any circumstances, to a wife whose husband is not a member of the Church. ... You will give recommends to wives of members of the Church who have not had their endowments only if the husband is absolutely willing that the endowment should be given to his wife.

 

135 years ago Oct 15, 1888

[Heber J. Grant]

This evening in company with Chas W. Penrose I called on Bro Joseph F. Smith and we talked with him regarding the necessity of our people paying $25,000 to the Democratic fund to aid in the election of Pres Cleveland. He was decidedly in favor of our doing so and suggested that I remain and make a second collection from our statehood funds instead of going to Emery County on Wednesday as per my former programme. (Grover Cleveland was the first Democrat elected president after the Civil War)

[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]

 

150 years ago - Oct 13, 1873

The Salt Lake City School of the Prophets discusses the practice of Patriarch John Smith and others who ordain infant boys to priesthood. Second counselor Daniel H. Wells "said some had ordained children when they thought they would die-this had been a comfort to some parents, though there was no law or revelation given for or against it, consequently he could not see any harm or wrong in having it done, neither could he think there was any particular virtue in it." [The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]

 

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