We hope you have been inspired and enjoyed our Christmas Past Re-cast and wish you the Merriest of CHRISTmases and the light of CHRIST into this next year! Final Answer 12th Day Christmas Past Re-cast: Postman George and his son struggled 8 hours in a blinding snowstorm, relying on the Spirit to help them deliver crates full of Christmas cheer to a family who had nothing for Christmas. Congrats to 12th Day drawing winner, LINDA CARVER, who won an olive wood “Holy Family” carving, clay oil lamp, paisley “Pashmina” (faux) scarf -$140 value 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 post. Merry...
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On the 12th Day of Christmas Past Re-cast… Question: Today’s “Light the World” is to care for your community. How did a community postman bring a miracle to a destitute family 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. Click Here for contest rules. It was December of 1927 in the remote prairie town of Hillspring, Alberta, Canada. A young mother, Mary Jeppson, was getting her six small children ready for bed. Her heart was so full of sorrow and concern that she felt it would surely break. It was Christmas Eve, and all of the children except for the oldest, Ellen, age ten, were dancing around, excited to hang their stockings for Santa to come. Ellen sat very subdued in a corner of the cold, small, two-room house. She felt that her mother was wrong to let the children build up their hopes for Santa to come, for there would be no Santa. There was nothing to fill the stockings. There would be only a little mush for breakfast. Just a week earlier, the family’s only milk cow had died of starvation. The winter had just started, and already it was cold and harsh. Mary helped each one of her children to hang a little darned and mended stocking, but she couldn’t persuade Ellen to participate. All Ellen could say was, “Mother, don’t do this; don’t pretend.” After the stockings had been hung, Mary read to the children the Christmas story from the Bible and then recited a few Christmas poems from memory-memories of her own happy childhood. Now Mary sat alone by the dying fire. Her husband, Leland, had gone to bed several hours earlier, feeling sad and discouraged. Mary knew that he felt he had failed his wife and children. She thought of their plight here in this land of ice and snow. Spring had come very late and winter had come very early for the last two years, causing all of their crops to freeze and fail. In October Mary had received a letter from her sisters living in Idaho. They told her that they knew times were very hard for her, and although they had suffered some setbacks themselves, they wanted to know what they could send the family for Christmas. Mary hadn’t written back right away. She was reluctant to tell them how poor and destitute the family really was. Finally in November, seeing that things were not going to get any better, in desperation she had written. Mary had requested only necessities. She told them of her family’s urgent need for food, especially wheat, yeast, flour, and some cornmeal. She added that it would be a blessing if they could ship just a bit of coal, for it was so cold, and their fuel was down...
Read More11th Day Christmas Past Re-cast Winner and Answer
Answer 11th Day Christmas Past Re-cast: The Orderville sisters quietly snuck into the rationed molasses barrel twice to get enough of the syrup to make a couple cookies and lump of candy for each child in the town. Congrats to 11th Day drawing winner, LACEY EDSTROM, who won a booklet by MHA guide Ron Millburn, “It’s Not about the Bunny, It’s about the Lamb;” Holy Land items: White Bethlehem Baby Blanket (made in Tel Aviv), “Holy Family” olive wood carving, clay oil lamp, and Olive wood oil vial holder/key chain (olive oil vial inside) – $70 value! 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...
Read More11th Day Christmas Past Re-cast Question & Story
On the 11th Day of Christmas Past Re-cast… Question: Today’s “Light the World” is to share as Jesus did. How did the sisters of Orderville share treats with every child in their town? To be entered into today’s daily giveaway & FREE tour drawing- Read the story below; “Comment” & “Share” your answer on Facebook or our blog. Click Here for contest rules. “One December evening some of the sisters of Orderville, UT met to plan a Christmas treat for the children. The Order had no luxuries and the necessities were strictly rationed. About the only sweets the people had was molasses, so, the sisters decided to make molasses candy and cookies for the youngsters. But on Christmas Eve, they came to “Grandmother Spencer,” wife of Howard Orson Spencer, bishop and leader in Orderville, with the news that the brother in charge of the molasses “won’t let us have any. He says our allowance for the month is already used.” Grandmother’s lips tightened. “The children are going to have something for Christmas. I’ll speak to my husband after dinner – he’ll give us permission.” When her husband came in tired and hungry, Sister Spencer hovered over her husband and after dinner urged him to rest by the fire. As he sat looking drowsily into the flames, she said in a low voice, “You do think the children should have some candy and cookies for Christmas, don’t you Howard?” “Ummmmhmmm,” was the sleepy response, and grandmother went away smiling. She reported to the ladies that everything was all right, “My husband has given us permission.” “Did he say we could have the molasses?” asked one doubting Thomas. “He didn’t say ‘No’” replied Sister Spencer truthfully. “Now we won’t wake up the brother in charge of the molasses. We’ll just slip out and take what we need.” The man in charge of the molasses barrel was very conscious of his responsibility. On the lid of the barrel he had placed a section of heavy logging chain and a large boulder. Only a thin wooden partition at the head of the bed separated him from the barrel outside, and he was a light sleeper. Shivering from the cold the women crunched through the snow toward the barrel. It was beginning to snow again and the night was very dark. With infinite caution they removed the heavy chain without so much as one betraying clank. It took the combined efforts of all the women to lower the boulder noiselessly to the ground. There was a breathless pause as Sister Spencer raised the lid and dipped into the barrel with a saucepan. She emptied its contents into a bucket and dipped again, and again. “We have enough now,” whispered one of the women. “Let’s go back.” With the same caution the chain and boulder were replaced and the women filed back to the warm kitchen to make...
Read More10th Day Christmas Past Re-cast Winner and Answer
Answer 10th Day Christmas Past Re-cast: The Prophet Joseph Smith and his father have been named in the scriptures for 3,500 years, named for and known to their ancestor, Joseph, the savior of Egypt and Israel. Congrats to 10th Day drawing winner, SUSIE AMINI, who won a leather messenger bag with Jerusalem city-scape impression, embroidered coin purse (Palestinian cultural design made by a Bedouin seamstress), clay oil lamp, and Olive wood oil vial holder/key chain (olive oil vial inside) – $100 value! 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...
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