My Favorite Quotes
"No other success can compensate for failure in the home."
David O McKay
True today as when he said it more than 40+ years ago. He died in January 1970
President David O McKay (1873 to 1970) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Declared:
"True happiness comes only by making others happy, the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service. It is the spirit of the gospel of Jesus Christ obedience to which will bring 'peace on earth,' because it means; good will toward all men."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the area, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumphant of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The young must know it; the old must know it. It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
Richard M Nixon (Farewell address at the White House 08/08/1974)
posted by Ward @ 10:37 AM
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This is a bit random, but be patient...I am Norman Mills, baptised on 18th February 2001 and subsequently Branch President of the Kidderminster Branch of the Birmingham Stake for 7 years. I am currently serving as 1st counsellor on the Branch Presidency as well as Stake Director of Public Affairs. Last year we held an Open House to celebrate about 175 years as a Branch and 25 years in our chapel. We have never grown into a Ward perhaps due to mass emigration to Utah of our members in past years, the most recent being the year of my birth, 1948. We are however a very old Branch and those who have served here include Elder Gordon B Hinckley, who addressed a public meeting at the Town hall, and President George Albert Smith, who ordained a member an Elder in 1920 whilst serving as President of the British Mission
When we advertised the Open House in Kidderminster we included a photograph from "Daughters in My Kingdom", page 67, showing the Relief Society Sisters in Kidderminster, we think probably taken in 1911 or 1912. We asked the question do you recognise your ancestors in this photo? Come to a Family History workshop at our Open House and we can help you find out about your family.
A 70 year old lady called Maureen Brighton recognised her grandmother, Ada Louise McGilvray as a young 18 year old girl and asked the church to contact her. She had no idea that she had relatives in the church and we sent for a film of church membership at the turn of the last century. My wife is assistant Director of the Family History Centre and she went through the film with Maureen and found that several of her relatives had been baptised.
This morning at the Birmingham Family History Centre I decided to look at the records myself and found that Maureen's grandmother had been baptised by Thomas E Wilding on 11th June 1916. On the same day Thomas E Wilding baptised Edith Allan, aged 25, and Florence Thomas, aged 9. On 16th July 1910 he baptised Elizabeth Hinsley, aged 46, Fanny Onions, aged 16, Elizabeth McGilvray, aged 17, and Jane Jones, aged 25.
You may know where your grandfather served his mission, but on the unlikely eventuality that there were 2 Thomas E Wildings in their late twenties serving a mission in 1910 (the younger photograph of your granddad looks like a missionary photograph) then I assume this Elder who baptised so many people in Kidderminster in a 5 week period was your grandfather.
Norman Mills, valandnorm@blueyonder.co.uk
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