Why Am I Here?
April 13, 2018I wonder why clouds aren’t on the ground. Why do things grow? If the sun has eyes? Why does everything start with a letter? Why is the moon there and not down here? I […]
I wonder why clouds aren’t on the ground. Why do things grow? If the sun has eyes? Why does everything start with a letter? Why is the moon there and not down here? I […]
[…] after six days of travel, was an eastern European village, the Hungarian farming community then known as Szerb-Csernye (now Srpska Crnja, Yugoslavia). Ferdinand Hintze, a Latter-day Saint missionary from Utah, traveled deeper into a […]
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The following chapter is excerpted from One More River to Cross, the title of the first novel of a trilogy to be called Standing on the Promises being published by Deseret Book beginning in August […]
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[…] battles of the Lord. I will also cross the Atlantic, encounter the queen’s forces, and overcome them —plant the American standard on English ground, and then march to the palace of her majesty, and […]
[…] sons is on a mission for his church, as I once was. He left for two years —hugging his family as he got on the plane to Chicago to preach about eternal life—and wrote […]
[…] of business his word was considered good; but on moral and religious subjects, he was perfectly visionary —sometimes advocating one sentiment, and sometimes another. Harris became the last of the three witnesses to the […]
For the first and only time, my wife sent my father a letter. I have since retrieved the letter and have it still. It is two deckle sheets neatly typed on the electric portable […]