Posted by admin on Dec 24, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018 |

Congrats to 2018 GRAND PRIZE DRAWING WINNER, JUDY BELL!!! She won a free seat on our Missouri to Nauvoo to Winter Quarters Tour!  CHOOSE ONE 2019 TRAVEL DATE:  June 15-21, July 6-12, July 27-Aug 2, or Oct 12-18 enjoying amazing sites! (July tours attend TWO incredible pageants –  BOTH the Nauvoo Pageant & Truth Will Prevail – British Pageant.) Please contact MHA office 801-272-5601 or info@mormonheritage.com within 30 days to arrange for how to receive your prize. Merry Christmas to everyone and thank you for participating in our annual Christmas Past Contest this...

Posted by admin on Dec 24, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018 |

Answer 12th Day Christmas Past: President Spencer W. Kimball spent his Christmas Eve ministering to children in the hospital because that was “what the Savior would want him to do.” Congrats to 12th Day drawing winner, JANA BROWN, who won an Olive wood Holy Family “flight to Egypt” carving, Bethlehem baby blanket, and olive wood laser-cut tree ornament, valued at $120!  Please contact MHA office 801-272-5601 or info@mormonheritage.com within 30 days to arrange for how to receive your prize.  Story still available on yesterday’s...

Posted by admin on Dec 23, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018 | 17 comments

On the 12th and final Day of Christmas Past,  Question: What did President Spencer W. Kimball think the Savior would want us to do on Christmas Eve? To be entered into today’s daily giveaway & FREE tour drawing- Read the story below; “Comment” & “Share” your answer on Facebook or our blog. “Christmas Blessings” By Robert E. Wells “It was the afternoon of December 24th.  All Church employees had been given the day off, but I had some business matters that I wanted to finish, so I was still in the office in the high-rise Church Office Building.  Helen and the children were expecting me home for last-minute Christmas preparations before our traditional Christmas Eve dinner and family program. I was hurrying to finish a long and complicated matter so I could go home when the phone rang.  It was Spencer W. Kimball, the president of the Quorum of the Twelve at that time.  All he said was, “Robert, are you busy?” I felt that he must need me for something so my answer was, “Not at all.  What can I do for you?”  We had developed a relationship over the years when he had stayed at our home in South America and I had traveled with him and translated for him down there.  From time to time, now that I was living in Salt Lake City and working for the Church, he would ask me to drive him somewhere or accompany him to a conference.  I was always flattered and happy to have the privilege of serving or helping this great man. His response was as I expected:  “Robert thanks.  Could you please meet me by my car?” I answered, “Yes, of course.”  He hung up without another word, so I called Helen and explained that there would be a further delay in my arriving home.  I hurried down to the parking level.  President Kimball had already arrived and was waiting.  We got into his car, and as we drove out he explained, “I have a distant relative with a small son in the Primary Children’s Hospital and they have asked me to give the boy a blessing, but the father can’t be there.  Also I have heard of a child from South America who needs a blessing too.  So I thought of asking you to go with me.  Is that all right?” I assured him that it was perfectly all right and that it was both a privilege and an honor to be his junior companion anytime he could use me.  After we gave the two blessings that he had mentioned, he suggested, “Robert, I think there must be many children here in this hospital who would like a blessing on Christmas Eve.  Shall we go find them?”  I was fascinated and delighted.  I thought, What a kind thing for this busy servant of Christ to think of doing! I found myself...

Posted by admin on Dec 23, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018 |

Answer 11th Day Christmas Past: This Christmas Eve marks the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8’s orbit of the moon and Genesis reading broadcast from space. Congrats to 11th Day drawing winner, JEFFREY ABRAHAM, who won an Olive wood Nativity scene with music box, and olive wood laser-cut Bethlehem bell ornament, valued at $120!  Please contact MHA office 801-272-5601 or info@mormonheritage.com within 30 days to arrange for how to receive your prize.  Story still available on yesterday’s...

Posted by admin on Dec 22, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018 | 15 comments

On the 11th Day of Christmas Past,  Question: On the night before Christmas 50 years ago, what historically most-watched event was viewed on television around the world? To be entered into today’s daily giveaway & FREE tour drawing- Read the story below; “Comment” & “Share” your answer on Facebook or our blog. “50th Anniversary of Christmas Eve 1968” “On December 21, as part of 1968’s Apollo 8 mission, astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders spent the night before Christmas orbiting the moon. The operation was originally planned to test out the lunar module—later used in the Apollo 11 moon landing—in Earth’s orbit. But when work on the module fell behind schedule, NASA ambitiously changed the mission plan to a lunar voyage. Apollo 8 went on to result in a series of breakthroughs for manned space flight: The three astronauts became the first men to leave Earth’s gravitational pull, the first to orbit the moon, the first to view all of Earth from space and the first to see the dark side of the moon. Apollo 8 is perhaps best remembered today for the broadcast the three astronauts made when they entered the moon’s orbit on Christmas Eve. As viewers were shown pictures of the moon and Earth from lunar orbit, Borman, Lovell and Anders read the opening lines of the book of Genesis from the Bible. William Anders – “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” James Lovell  – “And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.  And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.  And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.” Frank Borman – “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.  And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.  And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and...