Then I said, “Well, what do you think?”, He said, “That’s great! As you recall, during those bitter cold winter months the plains would freeze as hard as granite at night, and the wagons could easily roll across the plains in the morning. But we made a mistake. If he feels all right, I can close this for you.” So I called President Kimball on the phone and said, “President, I’ve got this lovely couple in my office. Posted by 3 years ago. How much money have you earned?”, He said, after his chin dropped a little bit more, “Well, actually, we haven’t earned anything yet, but we’re going to earn it.”, I said, “How are you going to raise the money?”, And his chin dropped again. However, in other instances, he points to obscure sources, including an April 1983 letter written by Seventy Vaughn J. Featherstone. During the past almost nine years since I heard that statement, there has hardly been a day go by that I haven’t thought of the talent of spirituality. The shield was inscribed with a thanks for my being chairman of the finance committee. Atonement; Jesus Christ; plan of salvation; Sabbath ; All topics (316) Vaughn J. Featherstone. How do you gain humility? The Saints talked about it a lot, but never to him. It would be the finest thing done in western Idaho!”, You know, I got a little excited just listening to him. And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood and to enjoy without let or hindrance or without any encumbrance or care. I’ll look in that direction to see what his hobby is.” So we got inside and sat down, and the television was behind me. Do you have a link to this talk by Vaughn J Featherstone? Vaughn J. Featherstone -- what a jerk. Do you know what we’re going to do? Be practical. I should stop here and tell you this: Do you know that General Authorities and bishops and stake presidents have the right to forgive on behalf of the Church, but only one man on the face of the earth has the right to forgive on behalf of the Lord? So, on the first Thursday of the month, we prepared, we had a prayer, and then we drove down and parked in front of his home. Vaughn J Featherstone (born March 23, 1931) is an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). I want this one more than any other puppy in the whole world. First and least important (but still very important), we ought to get what is said. She looked around and couldn’t see anyone. She ran immediately to the pool and saw her baby lying on the bottom. He would turn the classical music on very loud, the birds would begin to sing, and he would hum along. As they prepared to go, Orson feared for his wife’s life. Conferences. She became somewhat ill. Who is that?”, He said, “I suppose it’s President Kimball.”, And I said, “I think you’re right. . Brethren of the priesthood, sisters of the Relief Society, President Henry D. Moyle suggested that when someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. There was a clean, immaculate chapel with a large row of pews down one side with a pulpit at the front, then a large wide aisle down the middle, and then another row of pews with a pulpit at the back on the other side. So they made their trek westward to Nauvoo, where the Saints had gathered. A resolution was passed ordering the will probated, and it is now on the records of Cook County, Illinois. General Conference. They prepared the covered wagons, and they took this frail little soul, put her on a stretcher, and lifted her up into Orson’s wagon. They’re all teenagers.”, “In fact,” he said, “this little gal here, Sandy Thompson, is in your seminary class.”, And we looked at the picture and talked for a minute. And you won’t even see anything of the riders except their shirts or blouses, or a hat. . I remember climbing aboard the airplane, and, as I recall, there were no seats in it. Understanding is critical if you’re going to have spirituality. Then we’ll nurse her back to health. My right to live, being but a life estate, is not at my disposal. I attended a conference with Elder Bruce McConkie up in Grace, Idaho, in 1967, where I had the privilege of speaking. The woman looked at him, and she looked at his meager clothing and thought, “Well, he surely can’t afford one of my puppies.” She was about to turn him away, but Bobby stared at her with a steel-gray glare. It is powerful in its vision of the future need of temples as a refuge from a wicked world. She didn’t know how to get to the bottom of the pool to get her baby, and she would not come up without the baby.”. I believe, finally, in a moment, this father discovered what charity is. In the little covered wagon, as the evening shadows were fleeting across the sky, he read to her, “Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God” (Ruth 1:16). Well, we, as General Authorities, are common judges to a degree. I didn’t answer it. One is purity of heart. I said, “I’d like to talk to you more about it, but we shouldn’t overstay our welcome tonight.”, He said, “Hold on, before you leave I want to tell you something. He got more and more excited, and after about ten minutes of telling us all about the sheriff’s posse, I said, “Archie, we’d love to come watch you do your routines sometime. There is another need for us now. I prayed, and I prayed fervently that everything would go right. He has also been the president of the Logan Utah Temple in Logan, Utah.. Featherstone was born in Stockton, Tooele County, Utah. The first thing that caught my ear was he used the “M” word in open conference! My wife came after I’d been here thirty years. 28. He thought the laboratory needed to be aired out, so he lifted all the windows, and during the night the birds all flew out through the windows. . Enoch saw the wickedness and misery of men. He had come to pick us up in his 1951 Cadillac. I’m just going to go over and ask him.”, So when he came through the door in the foyer, she walked up and said, “Do you mind if I ask you a question?”, And he said, “No, if you promise to ask only one.”, She said, “Very well, then. Why isn’t it that the peddler of pornography, the adulterer, and the fornicator have to cry out, ‘Unclean! Ward welfare services committees are organized to get results. Each one of us, Sister Funk and her husband, myself, and the mission president, cupped their little mutilated hands in our hands, walked down the line, and shook hands with each one of them. We need to go see Bishop Featherstone, dont we? I don’t ever want you to mention it again. He’s the branch president. Don’t be afraid to get out into the business world and learn all that you can. He had me sit with my back to the television and he sat facing it. What do you think he does more than any other person on the face of the earth?”, He thought for a minute, then said, “I don’t know.”, Then I said, “I believe it’s service. I know I want to marry you, and so we’ll do whatever you say.” So they joined the Church, they were married, and they had five children back in Massachusetts. So, having been employed by Albertson’s, I thought, “They’re a large corporation with their national headquarters in Boise.” At that time Bob Bolinder, a member of the Church on the high council in the neighboring stake, was the executive vice-president. Then the midmorning sun would come out and thaw the earth, turning it into a giant sea of mud. The letter is addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church and is written with the expectation that these future Saints will have been alive for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. She had not known until this very moment. So Thursday night came, and Scott and I went down. As a boy, I remember going through my dad’s binder. She said, “Yes, young man, can I help you?”, He said, “You have purebred puppies for sale?”. Each night after he got a new clock he would put it in the bedroom, and then he would listen to the chimes going off during the night. Vaughn J. Abstract: In this essay, I examine a letter written by Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone in 1983 and deposited in the cornerstone of the Atlanta Georgia Temple. "We live in a time of storm," continued Elder Featherstone, speaker at the Manti Temple Centennial program on Temple Hill Saturday. I tell you, Scott and I got there quick in case one of the coffee drinkers might change his mind and decide the milk looked good. It was an all Mormon encampment with about 2000 boys near Kirtland, Ohio. You won’t even see the horses except their hooves. But I do have one request that I’ll need if we are going to raise the money this way. Satan has unleashed every evil, every scheme, every blatant vile perversion ever known to the dispensation of the fulness of evil. She ran into her backyard, and, of course, the first place you always go when you have children that age is to the most treacherous area—either to the street or to the pool. He noticed the little boy’s eyes would particularly sparkle and all the hope would well up within him when a racer bike would be brought out. He said the bikes were purchased, one by one, and each time the little boy would bid, and each time the bikes were sold for much more. Vaughn J. Featherstone was second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this fireside address was given at Brigham Young University on 1 August 1976. We came back from our honeymoon, and we always paid more than a 10-percent tithing. Vaughn J. Featherstone’s humble beginnings gave him an intense appreciation for the gospel and its blessings. As we taxied in, all thirteen lepers who were members of the Church were standing there waiting to meet us. April 1, 2003 (good analogy for a talk or lesson) "God Will Use You, God Will Bless You" - Dean M. Davies "Heavenly Powers" - Carlos E. Asay "Holy Places" - Kevin J. Worthen "Making Temple Worship a Pattern in Your Life" - Ronald A. Rasband "Temple Blessings" - Robert D. Hales Label each day of the month on individual dividers (1-31) 1. Brother Goates’s father, George, farmed sugar beets west of Lehi, Utah. I attended a conference over in Hawaii, and after the conference several young people came up to shake hands. The speech ("A Self-Inflicted Purging") was given by Vaughn Featherstone in April 1975. The lepers would sit on one side and conduct their services, and those who were not leprous would sit on the other side and conduct services. He wanted that kind of conviction for himself, so he began seriously reading the Book of Mormon. We went to the temple unworthily. So I said, “I think I’ll call President Kimball and see how he’d respond. Next Wednesday I called him up and said, “Archie, we’ve got a plan. She poured the contents out on the table, and then she let Bobby count it. However, in other instances, he points to obscure sources, including an April 1983 letter written by Seventy Vaughn J. Featherstone. After he and his wife had settled down and the clock began to chime, he remembered counting up to ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Most wore large glasses so you couldn’t see their faces. Elder Featherstone also wrote many books, particularly for youth of the Church, about gospel topics for which he felt strongly. BYU Speeches If we’re going to be spiritual, we need to have understanding. © Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. And yet, no other talent exceeds spirituality. And then he laid the bike down and ran back to the auctioneer and threw his arms around the auctioneer’s neck and cried. Repentance ought to be just part of us and part of our being. They’ve driven sixteen hours to get here. She put the first one back and brought the second one up. Vaughn J. Featherstone was second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this fireside address was given at Brigham Young University on 1 August 1976. So I got the signal that Scott could not get a clue as to whether he had a hobby or not. Vaughn J. Featherstone. I said, “How did you know that I taught seminary?”, He said, “I was down to the arena where we do our training with the horses and they do their routines. I, Charles Lownsberry, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make and publish this, my last will and testament, in order as justly may be to distribute any interest in the world among succeeding men that part of my interest which is known in law and recognized in the sheepbound volumes. I think another thing we’ve got to have if we’re going to have spirituality is charity. Vaughn J. Featherstone, emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, offers words of encouragement as students seek to fulfill their God-given potential. We climbed in, and he took us to the chapel. In the mid-1830s this great man, Joseph the Prophet, sent two missionaries back to Massachusetts. The company normally wouldn’t give to this kind of a charity. This was a general session, not priesthood. He kept a Franklin Day Planner stocked full of notes, old talks, information from meetings, details from work and church. As we walked up to them, we didn’t know whether or not the disease was arrested. The Vision of the South – Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone. Russell M. Nelson; Dallin H. Oaks; Henry B. Eyring; M. Russell Ballard; All speakers (490) Topics. President Eyring said there is much talk today about what it means to minister. She’s been sick. He said that up in British Columbia the police department had collected many bikes over a period of time. And it seemed to go all right. Well, the auctioneer noticed that every time they’d bring a bike out and he would say, “Who will start the bidding?” a little boy on the front row would say, “I bid one dollar, sir.” And then the bidding would go up beyond that. As they came to my office, they wanted a half-hour appointment; then they were going to turn around and drive the sixteen hours home without doing one other bit of business. I remember knocking on the door. He was a member of the Church, but I doubt he had been in the Church since he was baptized. I doubt there are many bishops or branch presidents who wouldn’t remember how long they’d been serving. But for forty-three years we’ve carried a transgression burden on our hearts. The little boy came up and put his one dollar in nickels and dimes and pennies alongside it, picked up his racer bike, and started out the door. Welcome to the Scripture Citation Index. I introduced him to this couple. Sign up or sign in to rate videos October 1999 October 1999 prayer prophets friendship home obedience standards parents. The Worst General Conference Talks: Vaughn Featherstone, 1975. An assistant helped him display the racer bike in front of the group, and then the auctioneer said, “This is the last racer bike we have. He heard a friend bear testimony of the truth of the gospel, and Elder Featherstone could tell that this friend really knew what he was saying. That’s the way we ought to raise the money. Label each day of the week on 7 individual dividers. How much am I bid?” This little boy’s hopes were waning, but he cried out, “I bid one dollar, sir.” Then the bidding went to two and three and five and seven-fifty and finally eight-fifty. I figured out a way to raise the money. Lies, the Spirit of Discernment, and the Atonement of Jesus Christ: A Tribute on the Passing of Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone By Dennis B. Horne On the evening of May 11, I listened for the second time to a wonderful talk, “ The Divine Gift of the Spirit ,” given by Elder Featherstone at the BYU-Idaho devotional in 2013. It had been a great spiritual experience. Apparently it was given in a 1973 Primary Conference. Major things ought to be taken care of, of course, but also other minor things. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels will watch over your loved ones when satanic forces tempt them, the veil will be thin, and great spiritual experiences will distill upon this people. Note: Below is an excerpt from a book entitled “The Incomparable Christ: Our Master and Model” by Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone, an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, that he entitled “Holiness to the Lord.” The book was published in 1995. Category Archives: Vaughn J Featherstone. While he was growing up, his parents were divorced and his mother was left to provide and care for eight children. Close. So I know if you’re going to have increased spirituality you must give of yourself through service. She couldn’t swim. Intended to draw readers closer to the Savior and his prophet leaders, Man of Ho 'Man of Holiness . Now, I believe, as I’ve thought about this, that there is a practicality to having spirituality. His testimony was rooted in the Savior, Jesus Christ, and His ability to forgive, heal, and protect. Missionaries and Girlfriends: Taken from a fireside by Vaughn J. Featherstone Question: Is it good for a fellow to leave a girl behind? And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in a thousand ways and the night and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at—but subject, nevertheless, to the right hereinafter given to lovers. Provo, Utah 84602, "I believe, as you study the scriptures, you’ll come to really know, not of the Savior, but really know him. He was born March 26, 1931, in the small town of Stockton, Utah. Although an ordained Bishop, he never served as a Ward Bishop. Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone Given at the Manti Temple in April 1987 The season of the world before us will be like no other in the history of mankind. The office provided a view over the whole north part of the community. All of a sudden he heard a fluttering of wings. At one of these auctions, the auctioneer started auctioning off the bikes. How did you lose your leg?”. I have several suggestions for gaining spirituality. One day, after twenty-five years, he hired a new custodian. You know, I told you it was twelve hundred dollars?”, “It isn’t twelve hundred dollars. I looked for a long time online and couldn't find it, so I typed it up. Item: I devise to boys jointly all the useful idle fields and commons where ball may be played, all pleasant waters where one may swim, all snow-clad hills where one may coast, and all streams and ponds where one may fish or where, when grim winter comes, one may escape—to hold the same for the period of their boyhood—and all meadows with the clover blossoms and butterflies thereof, the woods with their appurtenances, the squirrels and the birds and echoes and strange noises and all distant places which may be visited together with the adventure there found. We got out in the hallway and she said, “Please, can you take me somewhere where I can sit down?” We took her and sat her down on one of the large couches up in that area and she regained her strength. I guess the only place they drive it is out to the airport once every seven years or so. Wherever he may go, whatever he may do, though his actions cost me what little I have in worldly goods, all I will be able to say to him now is, “I love you, my precious son.” For nine years I have never said one kind thing to my son. And after the speaker stood up, he said, “Well, that was essentially correct, but it wasn’t California; it was Pennsylvania. I just remember turning to him, and I said, “President Kimball, I love you.” I was deeply touched. The birds were flying back through the windows! Maybe they were afraid for us to touch them. I recently had a sweet couple come to my office. A Report and a Challenge. You will be blessed beyond measure. But even more than Aurelia Spencer Rogers, I’ll love this Kathryn, who sacrificed and raised up an Aurelia Spencer Rogers. [Page 309] Abstract: In this essay, I examine a letter written by Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone in 1983 and deposited in the cornerstone of the Atlanta Georgia Temple. The custodian watched Dr. Eckstein leave. I met him at a scout camp when I was 16. (Of course, there are a hundred other subjects I could have mentioned regarding how to gain spirituality, but these are a few for your consideration.) Answer: Is it good for the sun to shine? As we lifted off the landing strip, I believe all thirteen members were there to see us off. Unclean!” Inside my heart something started welling forth, and I thought, “What a travesty of life! stretched forth his arms, and his heart swelled wide as eternity; and his bowels yearned; and all eternity shook” (Moses 7:41). I just love to sit down and read it. Version 3.5.0 By Stephen W. Liddle and Richard C. Galbraith. The music had gone out through the open windows and through the trees and down the street, and the birds were coming back. "Cairns on the Path of Mortality" - J. Kelly Flanagan - BYU Dev. Only one person had the charity, the pure love of the Savior, and saw the need. I said, “Now, President, I’ll just turn them over to you and I’ll see you later.”, I started leaving, and he said, “Bishop, I’d like you to come in, too.”, So I went in and we sat down beside his desk. Elder Featherstone served in several stake leadership positions, on the Church General Missionary Committee, as a member of the Young Men general presidency, and in area presidencies in the Philippines and the Pacific. I told you I had a seventeen-year-old son to whom I hadn’t spoken a kind word in nine years. There was no question, nothing; he had already signed them. So I said to my secretary, “Work them in. The letter is addressed to twenty-first century members of the Church and is written with the expectation that these future Saints will have been alive for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. He grew up in a home with an abusive alcoholic father. It has everything: harmful advice, bigotry, made-up stories, embarrassing beliefs, doctrinal/policy confusion, and more! We’ve known it all along, I guess. Some had the appearance that they had been mutilated where the skin had sloughed away due to the disease. Vaughn J. Featherstone was a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was given at BYU on 5 June 1983. Increased Temple attendance President Ezra Taft Benson April 1987 General Conference . Speech!”. I made an appointment with him, and then I called Archie. Vaughn J. Featherstone Mount Vernon Washington Stake Conference - June 1985 Lord's Promise To You What you must do Reference . I met him at a scout camp when I was 16. Robert Hansburger said, “You gentlemen want to make a presentation to me?”, So I went through this presentation, and when we finished, he said, “I want you to know that’s an excellent presentation. Vaughn’s father was the only member of the Church in the family and had been inactive for some time, so it was through a friend’s invitation to Primary that Vaughn first came to church. He’s volunteered to be our finance chairman to raise the money for our black lighting. His family then settled in Salt Lake City when he was five. I would like, for a few moments with you this morning, to suggest what I think the man of Christ is. I think I have found the strangest General Conference talk of modern times. “No, Orson, I won’t leave you.” He sat by her at the head of the bed, and they had a very tender moment. Bobby picked the puppy up, held it close to him, and said, “Please sell me this puppy. It’s really important to me.”, And again he thought. President Kimball embraced him for a moment and then went to the woman. Must I start over again?” All of these thoughts were going through his mind as tears streamed down his cheeks. General Conference. . It’s actually eighteen hundred dollars. The family moved to Mountain Home, in eastern Utah, and then, when Vaughn was about five years old, they settled in Salt Lake City. Vaughn J. Featherstone, First Quorum of the Seventy and Executive Administrator. It was an all Mormon encampment with about 2000 boys near Kirtland, Ohio. Quotes “It is one thing to talk about a problem and another thing to actually contribute to the solution. But these things excepted, all else in the world I now proceed to devise and bequeath. The mother would have given anything to have known how to swim—in fact, she almost gave her life.