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Hope for Our Children

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I had a critical illness when I was a baby. I had to have a tracheotomy; I see the scar in the mirror every morning. But the real problem was fever. It stayed too high day after day. This occurred in the late forties when the medicine available was not nearly as effective as it is today. There were three nurses that worked eight hour shifts in my hospital room. When they went off duty, one of them left her cap and the other two took their caps with them. My mother asked one of them about this and found … Continue reading →

Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” New Testament, Hebrews 11:1 This is the definition of faith so many of us know and understand. But there is so much more to the principle of faith. There came a point in our lives where we had reason to need, my husband and me, further understanding of this very basic tenet of our religion. Borrowing from Joseph Smith, Jr.’s Lectures on Faith, as outlined in Bruce R. McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine, we learn: “Faith is based on truth and is preceded by knowledge. Until a … Continue reading →