Saturday, February 29, 2020

It’s all Charles Could do for his Hunger


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Charles W. Nibley
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Future apostle, Charles W. Nibley states that his family was so poor that all his mother could send him to tend their livestock at the start of the day was one slice of bread. What did Charles state he had to do in response to the hunger pangs?
a.                  Tighten the rope that held up his pants
b.                  Dig for Sego lily roots
c.                   Chew on alfalfa like the livestock
d.                  Chew on his empty leather wallet
Yesterday’s answer:
B   14
From the life of Marion George Romney:   In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution led by Pancho Villa, the Mormon settlers in northern Mexico were forced to flee to the United States for safety. George S. Romney found it necessary to remain in Colonia Juarez, but he entrusted his fourteen-year-old son, Marion, with the responsibility of getting the family safely to El Paso two hundred miles north and caring for them until he could leave Mexico.
Barely out of town, the Romney wagon was stopped by members of the rebel army, who robbed them of their last twenty pesos. Elder Romney recalled that when the bandits had taken the money, they drew their guns from their holsters and pointed them toward the wagon. “As I looked up the barrels of the rifles they seemed very large to me. . . . I expected they would shoot. They did not shoot, however, and I lived to tell the story.” This and many other experiences verify that truth of this statement in Elder Romney’s patriarchal blessing: “The angels of your choice have been over you and watched over you for your good.”
Flake, Lawrence R., Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation, (Provo, Utah: Religious Study Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 229-230.

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