Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Margarita Engle’s poem, “The Life of a Digger,” and Erica Funkhouser’s poem, “My Father’s Lunch,” reveal how life as manual laborers are filled with hard and strenuous work. Additionally, both poems concern specific people to show the differences in the repercussions of their work. In Engle’s poem, Henry the digger, finds his job leaves him feeling undignified, whereas in Funkhouser’s poem, the speakers father is rewarded with a good meal and his children’s appreciation. In both poems, the authors’ themes are representational of the lives of manual laborers. By comparing these two poems, we gain a glimpse of the reality between the differences of immigrant and non-immigrant laborers, and how those differences affect them. Author Erica Funkhouser’s speaker, the child of the farmer in her poem, sets the tone in “My Father’s Lunch.” The tone is set in place through their narrative recount of the lunch traditions they share with their father. These lunch traditions set by their father are a reward of sorts, for their father’s hard days’ worth of work. The lunch hour tradition is conveyed in the poem as a highly anticipated event by the children. As they lay and wait for his arrival, anticipating their time to come with their father, “for now he was ours” (14). The children are appreciative of their father’s work, as they view even the meal as work on his end; “This was work, too,/ but he did it slowly, with no impatience” (23-24). Work in this poem does not carry a negative…

General Conference is truly a wonderful event because the testimonies and truths that are born when listening to the words of prophets. The October 2016 conference was no exception to the formation of testimonies. President Russell M. Nelson, president of the quorum of twelve apostles, spoke in General Conference about finding joy in life and its many trials. President Nelson’s purpose is to help us as latter day saints better understand where joy comes from and how we can utilize it in our…

Merriam-Webster online dictionary, a house is “a building that serves as living quarters for one or a few families”(“Definition of House”) and a home is “one's place of residence”(“Definition of Home”). Because of these similar definitions, house and home are used interchangeably. While these definitions are technically correct, there is a different feel to the word home. Home is more than just a place where you live or reside. It is a place where you can be with the ones you love. It is a…

“What is the the duty of a latter day saint? To do all good he can upon the earth.” Brigham Young did just that. Also known as the “American Moses” he helped save the Mormon religion and restore the gospel. Brigham Young was born from his father, John Young and mother, Abigail Young on June 1, 1801 in Whitingham, Vermont. He was baptised into the Mormon church in the spring of 1832 after a young missionary gave a humble testimony and that’s how it all started. He soon became a part of the…

David A. Bednar, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ, once stated that “A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met." With this in mind, do deportations affect the growth of children not only physically but emotionally? What happens to the children who are left stranded? As American citizens, it is…

Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its 1st president. Conflicts arose for the Mormon community when Smith was killed in a shoot-out. After he died, the church had some trouble figuring out who the next leader of the Mormon church would be. Smith’s brothers, Hyrum and Samuel, were to succeed Smith, but they were both dead. Smith’s eldest son, Joseph Smith III was only eleven years old, so obviously he wasn’t going to lead the church. Potential successors were Sidney Rigdon, Williams Marks,…

and roll, rap, and dubstep songs. The third group didn't listen to anything but silence. For 8 weeks they continuously played the songs for the mice. After 8 weeks they let the mice go into a maze to find food. The first group of mice seemed to be even smarter than before they had listened to the music. However, the second group wondered off with no sense of direction at all. The researching diagnosis was: “We believe that mice were trying to compensate for this constant bombardment of…

ourselves, and for others under our stewardship. Hiram Page was receiving supposed revelations regarding the government of the church. This is not the “order” set forth by the Lord in Section 28. Just as he could not receive revelation for the entire church, I cannot receive revelation for John Doe and vice versa. Joseph Smith said, “It is contrary to the economy of god for any member of the church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves…but if any…

flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be ...” thus for the Christian believer in the resurrection of the dead, placing the body facing east will allow the dead to see the Second Coming of Jesus. Therefore, the east to west direction could be reflective of the belief that when resurrected, one will be witness to Christ’s second coming. The data I found suggests that those who do not share in Christian beliefs, are still subject to the effects of religious practices.…