Daniel Bay Gibbons

repentant lawyer/retired judge/russian preacher/ukrainian teacher/poor-man’s poet who bears no grudge

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@hankrsmith @Latterdaytruth I remember having Thursday Thanksgiving Day meetings in the Salt Lake City stake (Bonneville) I grew up in.

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@hankrsmith @Latterdaytruth “1896 — Fast day (and testimony meeting) moves from first Thursday to first Sunday.” Thursday fast meeting is interesting. Perhaps connected with the Thursday meetings of the “Quorum on the Anointed” in Nauvoo—the Thursday meetings of the FP and QoT date back to those meetings.

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@hankrsmith @Latterdaytruth “1946 — Silence during the sacrament instead of preaching/music.” I remember in the 1960’s, before the Sunday School sacrament, there was a “sacrament gem”-a small preachment from the pulpit, after the sacrament hymn was sung but before the blessing of the bread.

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@hankrsmith @Latterdaytruth “Mar 1912 — Individual sacrament cups replace common cups.” This change took some time to be implemented, at least in certain Wards. My mother, born 1921, wrote of her memory of drinking from the communal sacrament cup.

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That mint-green house in Nepal is still standing after the glacial burst. Family on the upper floor. It sent me back to our little house with weathered yellow siding.
Where has the foundation held in your house?

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Daily Poem # 3,025

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Daily Poem # 3,000

Dear Friends:
Thanks for many of you who have followed and encouraged me over the past 3,000 days (more than eight years) as I have written a daily verse, each and every day. This small daily creative exercise has been a great blessing to me and while I have no illusions about the quality of my poetry, I intend to continue on until the day I die!
Love and gratitude to all!
Dan Gibbons

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@OccultDetective

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@realKellyKnight Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan and SLC Inner City.

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@MrPitbull07 Probably $25, unless the service was abysmal. I believe in being outrageously generous.

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@LukeFHan Catherine Drinker Bowen's "Miracle at Philadelphia," and "John Adams and the American Revolution" are both top notch, and brilliantly written. Also, her "Yankee from Olympus" (a biography of a later American luminary, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes).

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There has been some question and discussion as to whether the office of “President,” meaning the President of the Church, is a tenth ordained office in the Priesthood. See, for example the entry for “Melchizedek Priesthood” in the 1979 edition of the KJV and Bible Dictionary. Additionally, there are numerous references in the historical records and teachings wherein Presidents and Apostles have referred to the “ordination,” not merely setting apart, of Presidents of the Church.

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@Latterdaytruth Mission Country: West Germany
Mission Language: German
Companions: 15
Areas: 3 (4 months, 6 months, 13 months)

Mission Countries: Russia & Kazakhstan
Mission Language: Russian & (very little) Kazakh
Companions: 1
Areas: 1 (with four time zones—36 months)

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My second mission president (to whom I served as his assistant during his first months in Germany), had served a mission in Germany as a young man in the months immediately after World War II. He said that much of his mission was spent in locating lost members, opening up meetinghouses owned by the church which were in disuse, and reestablishing the church in Germany. He said that in one old boarded up LDS church building, which he and his companion opened up, they found a box containing the sacrament trays, and with the trays were armbands reading, "Diakon," "Lehrer," and "Priester." ("Deacon," "Teacher," and "Priest.") He speculated that the Aaronic Priesthood holders wore these during the administration of the sacrament.

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@derekporter_ @JasminRappleye NIV is a favorite

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Daily Poem # 2,879

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Daily Poem # 2,878

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