Posted by admin on Dec 13, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018, Uncategorized |

Answer 1st Day Christmas Past: Pres. Eyring reminds us that we can receive powerful answers of peace.  Jesus Christ is the source of that peace.   Congrats to 1st Day drawing winner, Margaret Davies, who won an Olive wood carving of the Holy Family, Bethlehem baby blanket, and olive wood laser-cut tree ornament from Israel, valued at $170!  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 12, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018, Uncategorized | 24 comments

On the 1st Day of Christmas Past,  Question: Dec 7th was Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, what reminders can we find in this Pearl Harbor Christmas memory of Pres. Eyring? To be entered into today’s daily giveaway & FREE tour drawing- Read the story below; “Comment” & “Share” your answer on Facebook or our blog. “Peace of Christmas” By Pres. Henry B. Eyring “We gathered around our radio at the end of the living room. Someone must have told my parents to listen. I still remember looking at the lighted dial on the front of the round-topped radio as we heard a man’s voice. The newscaster described bombs, fires, and sinking ships in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I had known that war was raging for others far away for years. Now it had come to us. I heard alarm in the man’s voice. Yet as I watched my parents, I could see that they were calm. They seemed to be at peace. A feeling of peace flooded over me.  That feeling persisted in the days before Christmas, on Christmas Day itself, and in the Christmases that followed. I now know what a miracle that Christmas memory of peace was, especially for my mother. As a young girl she had grown up with a beloved cousin. His name was Mervyn Bennion. He was the captain of a ship anchored in Pearl Harbor on the Sunday of December 7.  On December 6, the night before, he had been with his wife at a pleasant social with the Latter-day Saints in Honolulu. Their hosts were the stake president and his wife, who was a relative of Sister Bennion. They invited the Bennions to stay for the night. Brother Bennion thanked them but said that he felt his place was to be on his ship. The following morning, Sunday, December 7, Mervyn Bennion was in his cabin getting dressed for a trip ashore to meet his wife for Sunday School when a sailor dashed in to report an air attack. Captain Bennion gave the command: “To Your Battle Stations!” He ran to his place of command on the flag bridge. It was nearly Christmas Day when my mother learned of the heroic death of the cousin she so much loved. For hours after he was mortally wounded he resisted the efforts of his men to take him to safety.  As well as I can recall, when my mother learned of Mervyn’s death she shed no tears, just as she showed no fear as she heard the radio report of the battle that took his life and might take the life of others she loved. Faith in the Lord drove out fear. Faith in His Atonement brought her the peace that passes understanding. Time and many experiences have made that memory of the 1941 Christmas season more precious and clear. I am not even sure that we received the Church News in New...

Posted by admin on Dec 5, 2018 in Christmas Past 2018, Uncategorized | 5 comments

With warm thanks for your patronage & sincere wishes for a happy holiday season. Our 8th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas PAST Just For You! Get into the spirit of Christmas and enter our giveaway drawings to win a !!FREE!! seat on  our Missouri to Nauvoo to Winter Quarters Church History Tour as well as exciting daily prizes!  Keep this grand prize for yourself or surprise someone special for Christmas. Winner will 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.) All you have to do is follow us on our Facebook page or on our website blog from Dec 12th – Dec 23rd. We will post a thought every day regarding something from Church History’s Christmas Past – anything from hymns to accounts of the pioneers and others in history.  Each day when you comment to our Christmas Past post, your name will be entered into our mini daily drawing awarded each day as well as a grand prize drawing entry. “Sharing” our Facebook posts on your page will also earn you another entry in the grand and daily prize drawings.  Answers and the daily winner will be posted on our Facebook page and website Blog the following morning before the next question is listed.  The accounts behind our ChristmasPast answers will be found here on our blog.  See below for more information and contest rules.  If you haven’t already done so, join us now on Facebook!  It’s free! Here is the link to our Facebook Page-  http://www.facebook.com/Mormon-Heritage-Association-302320186624/?fref=ts    All new Facebook followers will receive an additional entry for joining our page profile (click on the “Like” box in the main cover photo).  Or participate on our webpage blog by Clicking on this link http://www.mormonheritage.com/blog. Our hope is that this activity will help us all slow down and appreciate the Christmases of simpler times and learn something new to inspire us this holiday season.  Tell all your family and friends about this unique and festive way to remember our Mormon Heritage. Merry Christmas! Mormon Heritage Association Staff and Tour Guides  12 Days of Christmas Past Rules: You must be 18 years or older to enter and a resident of the United States or Canada.  Daily prizes will be announced when drawing winner is posted each morning.  Winners will be notified through Facebook unless other contact information is provided to or known by MHA.  Daily prize winners and grand prize winner must provide their address for mailing their prize OR prizes could be picked up at MHA office Mon-Fri 10am-3pm or by other arrangement.  If no response from winners to claim prize within 30 days, prize is null and void.  MHA ensures privacy with all contact information.  One entry per person per day will be entered into the Grand Prize drawing for posting a “comment” answering the daily question.  A second grand prize entry per person each day will be entered for a “share” of our post on your own Facebook profile.  There is potential of receiving a total of 24 entries for the grand prize per person for sharing and commenting each day.  Any new followers who “Like” our Facebook...

Posted by admin on Dec 12, 2017 in Christmas Past 2017, Uncategorized | 35 comments

On the 1st Day of Christmas Past, some history to enhance Light the World – “Blessed are they that mourn.”  Question: What gift did a temple worker help a young man give? To be entered into today’s daily giveaway & FREE tour drawing- Read the story below; “Comment” & “Share” your answer on Facebook or our blog. “A Child’s Gift” Jean Mathews and her husband, John, served a mission in the Manila Philippines Temple, where this story took place. “On the day before Christmas, my husband was supervising the [Manila Philippines Temple] baptistry with my help. We were both very busy, but my husband felt a tug on the sleeve of his white suit coat. Looking down—he is 6-feet 4-inches tall and towers over most Filipinos—he saw a little boy who looked about 9. He wasn’t surprised, as many 12-year-olds there are about the size of 8- and 9-year-olds in the States. This little boy was dressed in worn but clean jeans and a T-shirt and was holding up a tattered piece of paper. John squatted down to look into his big, sad, brown eyes. “How can I help you?” he asked. “Can I be baptized for my dad?” “Is he dead?” John asked sympathetically. “Yes, he died two years ago. My mother told me to be baptized for him today.” John’s thoughts immediately filled with concern that the boy’s request couldn’t be filled without the necessary information, so he asked, “Do you know his full name and his birthday and where he was born?” The boy offered the piece of white paper again. “My mother wrote it down on this.” There, on that worn and soiled fragment of paper carried so carefully in his pocket, was the name of his father and his birth and death dates. Hoping the boy knew any additional information that would be needed, John pointed him to the temple office. “One of the ladies there will help you. Then come back with the blue slip of paper she will give you, and we will baptize you for your father.” Because John could not leave his responsibilities in the very busy font, he watched as the boy made his way toward the office. It was an hour before John thought about the boy again and wondered where he was. Shortly thereafter, he felt another tug on his coattail, and the little boy appeared holding a blue slip of paper, which he held out. We found a very small white jumpsuit for him. We had to roll up the pant legs and sleeves. When it was his turn to step into the font, he paused and announced in great seriousness, as if it were the most important thing to ever happen in his entire life, “I’m getting baptized for my dad.” He had the full attention of everyone there. After he was immersed, he was...