Its new years eve so we're going to the big dance tonight! We get one every year, and Pratts taking all us gals and we're getting the big kids tend the little kids. Ive got the cutest pink dress to wear!!!! AND its got silk flowers on it! Harmonee says she might not be going cus she says its a meat market for the young gals to get looked over, and she wants to be spending the evening with her kids. She'll miss out on dancing with Pratt if she stays home. I would NEVER do that! Celestial Rainbows WAY excited to be going, and Pratt says for me to keep an eye on her, thats shes not flirting with young guys. He thinks shes probally learned her lesson and is settling down.
Im writing today about Lying for the Lord. It pretty much started with the prophet Joseph, when he was trying to get the true church going properly. folk were getting supsicious about what he was up to, so he had to say some stuff to keep them guessing. What he said was -
"What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.Sunday, May 26, 1844. History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 408-412.
I guess it was true he didnt have SEVEN wives cus he had about 30 polygamy wives right then, but Pratt says Joseph KNEW that folk wouldnt like polygamy to start, so he had to make it secret till there were enough folk in the church, and he could get folk to listen to it in private. They even got the mssionaries out in the world not to say, so lots of folk would be joining and gathering to ZION (America) BEFORE they got to be hearing about it.. Josephs apostle John Taylor helped him out with it when he was on a a mission to France and he was telling folk the church wasnt doing polygamy.(John Taylor had a bunch of wives then) He was telling them what it was saying in the old Doctrine and covenents scriptures -
"4. All legal contracts of marriage made before a person is baptized into this Church should be held sacred and fulfilled. Inasmuch as this Church of Jesus Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication and polygamy, we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again. It is not right to persuade a woman to be baptized contrary to the will of her husband; neither is it lawful to influence her to leave her husband."
Pratt says this is ALL lying for the lord, cus it stopped folk presecuting the church on account of polygamy or on account of gals leaving there husbands to be mormon polygamy wives. AND it was getting folk to join and get strong in the faith before they got to hear about polygamy, and that was GOOD. (I was thinking to, that the marriages folk were having in the world BEFORE getting baptised, WERENT sacred either, like it says there, cus the bretheren were saying you DIDNT need to be getting a divorce if you wanted to be marrying a guy with the preisthood. Like that polygamy wife of Parley Pratt. SHE didnt bother with getting a divorce before she was marrying Parley, and I guess Parley didnt get time to ask if it was OK before her husband shot him.) Pratts says Im right about it, and it just goes to show theres a heap of stuff its OK to do and say when your building the kingdom!!
Thats probally why those sweet FLDS gals were lying about which kid belonged to which mom, cus that was lying for the Lord, to help the kingdom against the devils work.
Ill probally tell you about what was a happening to a gal who DIDNT lie for the lord and all the trouble it made for her! You need to be listening to the bretheren and doing what they say, or it can turn out bad!
Harmonee was over when Pratt was talking about this stuff and she was saying that she thought it was WRONG to be lying at ALL. She was saying how could you be trusting guys who tell lies? I told her when youve got the spirit youll know when lyings OK, and she needs to be having more faith! I dont know WHY Harmonees always making herself look bad all the time and having diffrent opinians from Pratt! No WONDER Pratts not spending much time with her. Im WAY glad Ive got the priesthood explaining stuff to me, so Im not thinking bad stuff and going apostate!
Blessings!
HoneDawn
Killing cats and dogs
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5 comments:
Happy new year HoneyDawn and I hope you have a great time at your dance. I remember reading somewhere about dances in the time of Brigham Young and how they danced special country dances that let guys dance with a few if his wives at once. Have you kept that tradition alive in your group?
I found all the stuff about lying for the Lord a little confusing. I think I would find it hard to know when it was or wasn't ok to lie. Maybe if I had the spirit or Pratt telling me it would be less confusing, but it's hard for me to get past the concept that any lie is a lie and any lie deliberately told to deceive is wrong. I hope you can enlighten me further on this, as you so often do on other points.
I hope 2010 brings much joy to you and your family.
Melissa xx
I haven't found any evidence Honeydawn that any of the 38 mothers represented by Texas RioGrande Legal Aide ever misrepresented any of their children.
Alinusara10
Happy New Year Honey Dawn !!!!
Alinusara, Pratt was saying he heard they were trying to mix up CPS about who was who, but maybe CPS was lying to? Anyways if they were telling fibs it was OK. The CPS reports here -http://web.gosanangelo.com/pdf/EldInvRpt.pdf
Mormonism is a religion based on the lies of an alcoholic sociopath adulterer named Joseph Smith.
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