Answer 7th Day Christmas Past Re-cast: Sister Hinckley left magical signs of Christmas to her family by her sweet actions of Christmas cards, grandkid sleepovers, and ornaments. Congrats to 7th Day drawing winner, Susan Booth, who won an Olive wood “Holy Family” carving, set of 4 Olive wood ornaments (laser carved), BYU Jerusalem t-shirt (note the camel in place of the cougar!), Olive wood oil vial holder/key chain (olive oil vial inside), Jerusalem tote bag with wallet, and BYU Jerusalem t-shirt (XL)- $85 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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On the 7th Day of Christmas Past Re-cast… Question: Today’s “Light the World” is to lift others by leaving signs of Christmas. What ‘signs of Christmas’ did Marjorie Pay Hinckley make magical? 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. If her grandchildren had to pinpoint one time of year that reminds them of Grandma Hinckley, it would have to be Christmas. This is her holiday. Everything she does with it is magical. Around the beginning of December, little cards arrive every four or five days in the mail to her grandchildren. Each child remembers the excitement of getting a card with just his or her own name on it. If you lived out of town, it was added reassurance that Grandma always thought about you even if you didn’t see her very often. And these aren’t ordinary cards. They pop out or stand up or play a Christmas carol. One grandchild even remembers one that her brother received that unfolded into a Santa mask. The cards usually contain one or two sentences at most, things like: “Good things happen at Christmastime” or “From your secret elf” or “Start counting the days” or just a simple “XOXO.” She usually didn’t sign her name, but the small, cursive penmanship was very familiar. Somewhere in between all of the cards was an invitation to the Grandchildren’s Christmas Party: “Attendance mandatory” or “Only the chicken pox will qualify as an excuse.” Christmas anticipation for her grandchildren didn’t get any better than receiving: Sunday, December 18, 5:30 p.m. Christmas dinner and fish pond. Walk through Temple Square. Try, try, try to be there! Love, Grandma H. Thursday, December 22, 7:00 p.m. Walk through Temple Square if we didn’t make it on the 18th. Sleepover. Breakfast. “Annie” at Promised Valley Playhouse. 4:00 p.m. Straight home! Love, G. Hinckley Marjorie Hinckley’s granchildren write the following accounts – Michael Hinckley, a grandson, remembers these extraordinary parties: My earliest and clearest memories of Grandma are the “Cousins’ Christmas Parties,” which were an essential part of each Christmas season. The magic of the Christmas season is already prevalent in the lives of children, yet this annual gala put on by Grandma added even more excitement. First of all, the simple fact that Grandma would invite only the grandchildren to come to the party was something significant in itself. While at family dinners we kids were always at the “children’s tables,” such was not the case on this occasion. There were no adults—only Grandma. We children all sat together at the “adults’ table.” We were the important people. The tables were festively decorated with linens of green and red, plates portraying Christmas scenes and symbols, and other articles ornamenting each dining place. Perhaps the most exciting feature of the dinner table was the...
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Answer 6th Day Christmas Past Re-cast: Handel felt close to Heaven while writing Messiah often while foregoing food. It has been noted of moneys raised that “Messiah has fed the hungry, clothed the naked, fostered the orphan … more than any other single musical production in this or any country.” Congrats to 6th Day drawing winner, Jeffrey Abraham, who won a Nauvoo Temple sunstone replica, Nauvoo Temple Christmas card set, Joseph & Hyrum ornament, and Olive wood dish (from Bethlehem) – $60 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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On the 6th Day of Christmas Past Re-cast… Question: Today’s “Light the World” is to fast and donate the cost to charity. How could fasting have been involved in closer Heavenly inspiration for a composition that has helped charities for over 275 years? 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. “Inspiration Behind Handel’s Messiah” If Handel’s father had had his way, the “Hallelujah Chorus” would never have been written. His father was a “surgeon-barber,” a no-nonsense, practical man who was determined to send his son to law school. Even though Handel showed extraordinary musical talent as a child, his father refused for several years to permit him to take lessons. When Handel was eight or nine years old, a duke heard him play an organ postlude following a worship service. Handel’s father was summarily requested to provide formal music training for the boy. By the time Handel turned 12, he had written his first composition and was so proficient at the organ that he substituted, on occasion, for his own teacher. Young Handel continued to master the clavichord, oboe, and violin, as well as composition through the years. In 1702 he entered the University of Halle to study law out of respect for his late father’s desire. But he soon abandoned his legal studies and devoted himself entirely to music. He became a violinist and composer in a Hamburg opera theater, then worked in Italy from 1706 to 1710 under the patronage of their music-loving courts. In 1712, after a short stay at the court of Hanover, he moved to England, where he lived for the rest of his life. Handel set to work composing on August 22 in his little house on Brook Street in London. Handel never left his house for those three weeks. He did not get much sleep and fasted often. When his assistants brought him his meals, they were left uneaten as Handel was “almost in another world.” A friend who visited him as he composed found him sobbing with intense emotion. After he just finished writing the “Hallelujah Chorus”, Handel had tears streaming down his face. “I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself.” Later, as Handel groped for words to describe what he had experienced, he quoted St. Paul, saying, “Whether I was in the body or out of my body when I wrote it I know not.” Within six days Part One was complete. In nine days more he had finished Part Two, and in another six, Part Three. The orchestration was completed in another two days. In all, 260 pages of manuscript were filled in with remarkable speed in a short time of 24 days! Sir Newman Flower, one of Handel’s many biographers, summed up the consensus of history: “Considering the...
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Answer 5th Day Christmas Past Re-cast: Two boys shopped with gratitude by overlooking things they desired and buying gifts for the rest of their family instead. Congrats to 5th Day drawing winner, Susan Roberts, who won an Olive wood Nativity scene, Olive oil soap bar, Dead Sea lotion, and clay oil lamp – $40 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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