Whoever needs to hear this: You are needed, and important! Please hang on..., whatever your heartache! Christ is the healing balm: Even Gods Son was left alone for a time.
Oh my goodness, what wonderful words to read this day. I spend everyday alone and this was such a boost!!!!! I so admire the people of your faith and share a love of many of your beliefs. Thank you again, christian live, Debbie❤
This is one of my favorite stories and always has been! I love the saints and I love their examples of service. Service is also one of my great talents. And I do my best to follow the examples of the saints that served one another.
@@Tom-fo5ce I prefer all the help they are giving humanity as they sit on their 150 billion stock portfolio...Jesus would be so proud of their emense wealth...
@@Tom-fo5ce Mistakes are made by all races, religions and other various groups. LDS are not immune. People can be stupid,dumb and mean. But there are also heroic acts. Acts of kindness. I think we are better humans when we look for the good. I've done plenty of dumb things myself, and I'm glad people don't say because of my stupid mistakes that my entire family must be the same way.
I love the attitude of those 18 year olds. "Don't care how cold that water is, time girt up our loins, these Saints have been through enough, we're here to answer some prayers."
I sure do miss him!! I live close to the Sweetwater and I know the storms that can happen. Last winter we all pitched in to help friends and neighbors dig out of their homes and dig animals out too. These brave young men were like the sons of Helaman faithful and brave! God blessed them and God bless us all to be as strong and faithful as these boys!!
Note hagas ...He beckons for your return...”Blessed be the Lord God of Israel”...and God be thanked for the multitude of tender mercies He showers down upon us!
It still gets me too Alex. Member or not, I am glad you can still recognize the sprit woven into the story of these boys' sacrifice. May you see this comment and again experience that same feeling. You are loved!
Love it, love President Hinckley...spot on Brother! Fire & the Covenant is the story of our families...the James. Our great great grandfather is buried in Rock Creek Hollow (dedicated by Pres. Hinckley) after dying on Rocky Ridge.
I dearly love and miss Gordon B Hinckley. Thomas S. Monson. I am grateful Because Russell M Nelson is our prophet today. So there is a love and tenderness about him today that I admire about Russell M Nelson. So I cheer for him and because of him being our prophet seer and revealator today. My parents cherish the faith in the church of Jesus christ of latter day saints. praise to the man whom communed with jehovah. And in choir practice Come tomorrow Practice singing O my father.
I do not think I could have done what those young men did. They did as the Lord Jesus Christ wanted them to do and saved many lives. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." -- John chapter 15 verse 13
The Lord sees our good deeds and knows our hearts, our Savior Jesus Christ will bless us if we do good works and help others, if we repent sincerely and keep His Commandments we will find true happiness and get peace of mind, we will have a remission of our sins and we will be blessed by Jesus Christ, we should strive to keep God's commandments and do the will of The Father like The Lord did, we need to follow the perfect example of our Savior Jesus Christ 👍🏻✝️
They had no need to be crossing the plains in the wintertime, other than Brigham Young 's orders and his ordering that they not be properly provisioned unlike the previous wagon-trains & handcart "companies." Brigham Young set them up. :.
A beautiful story, I agree. One that impacted me when I heard President Hinckley tell it years ago. However, it's so sad and disheartening to me that it's embellished and the version President Hinckley tells here is not supported by the broader historic record: "The evidence indicates that more than three rescuers braved the icy water that day. Of those positively identified as being involved in the Sweetwater crossing, none were exactly eighteen. Although these rescuers helped a great many of the handcart pioneers across the river, they carried only a portion of the company across. While some of these rescuers complained of health problems that resulted from the experience, most lived long and active lives that terminated in deaths that cannot be definitively attributed to their exposure to the icy water that day. "The underlying meaning of the statement attributed to Brigham Young-publicly promising rescuers eternal life for this one act alone-is not entirely evident. Because there are no contemporary records of this statement, it needs to be examined in terms of both what was being said around the time of the rescue and in terms of gospel principles. Brigham Young did publicly associate exaltation with the effort to rescue the stranded pioneer companies, as did Heber C. Kimball, who publicly praised by name two who helped at the Sweetwater. However, both Young and Kimball taught that the tie between the rescue and the celestial kingdom was conditional in that the individuals involved needed to meet established requirements that all Latter-day Saints must attain of living their religion and enduring to the end. Individuals should not be misled to believe that one heroic act on their part will guarantee exaltation in the celestial kingdom." byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-martin-handcart-company-at-the-sweetwater-another-look/
Thank you for the clarifying information! I always appreciate the facts. It's somewhat disheartening and frustrating when you learn later, and after the fact, when the inaccuracies of the story have been accepted as the way that it was, that it wasn't quite the way you were told. It's so important for history to be told accurately, imo.
This is a great story, but the close captioning is very poorly done. Is there a way for someone to fix it? I know service missionaries who would volunteer to correct these transcriptions, but I don't know who to contact.
IF you visit the museum in Wyoming the miracle surrounding these 3 young men is that they suffered NO ills from heir heroic measures. President Hinckley mispoke.
Those 3 boys did not suffer anything major at the time they Carried people across the river. It was later in life that they suffered & died from the effects of that fateful day.
I've read about these boys. In their later lives they did have illness from the heroic efforts, and they suffered. Read the history. I have ancestors who were in the Martin company.
This story has been researched and found to be untrue. It was told in General Conference in the 1860's but the three boys lived long and rather wild lives.
Awful. Any organization that is truly "about families" would never put families through this. Or send fathers overseas for years at a time or ask children to leave their families for 2 years during a time they most need their parents.
Ephesians 2:8-9 New International Version (NIV) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast.
This is unfortunate. These 3 young men were very brave but they were not the only ones there saving lives that day. They didn't die from the exposure they suffered. I'm sure they were greatly blessed and apparently they were protected. I hope the brethern have learned from this. These stories need to be fact checked before they are shared to the world.
Yes. It’s mostly made up by Solomon Kimball and appeared in the improvement era in 1914. Apparently BYU studies has an article debunking this story. The 3 boys were there and helped. They didn’t carry people across the river, they died many years later of other causes, two of them outlived Brigham Young. It’s an inspiring story but apparently made up. It all came to light in 2006 so this video pre dates the debunking.
Actually John Jacques also wrote in 1872 about the sweetwater crossing he participated in while in the Martin Handcart company. Three isn't the exact number, but rather "several", and not nearly the whole company was carried across, but a "portion". It isn't hard to believe people needed help crossing a half frozen river in Wyoming on the Oregon Trail.
I pray that you will celebrate Christmas in knowledge and truth. The knowledge that Jesus Christ died for you, in an act so poeerful that nothing else is needed but belief. And the truth that Gordon Hinkley and the leadership of the LDS Church are lying to you and always have.
That is not how one attains salvation, only through repentance and faith in the true Christ of the bible (not the created spirit brother of lucifer of mormonism) can one be granted salvation through the divine grace of God. Not by works, however noble. Read ephesians. And repent of these wretched blasphemies!!!
Agree .. just because you helped save a life here on earth does not give you a free ticket to heaven. Through Jesus blood is the only way of salvation from hell
My wife's grandfather, Melvin Smith, was a historian that covered the Mountain Meadow Massacre extensively. He was not LDS and often conveyed this to us and tried, like you, to pin this on the Church collectively, when in reality, it was likely a few individuals who were to blame for it. It was likely bad information, mixed with retaliation from past experiences, mixed with fear, etc. Regardless, it was not good and should have never happened. Now, let's look in the scriptures where good men made serious mistakes. Or look at general history where good men commit heinous crimes. How about the blood shed unconstitutional Abe Lincoln perpetuated?
What about all those who starved and froze to death.. its an absolute fact that brigham young didnt take care of them through the handcart companies..fact.
@@ivanmack21 no its in a book just written lately i think..actually very sad so im not at all trite about it..its about the handcart companies etc.. im just sad to learn how many prople died and its not all the sanitized version we get..so i say rip to them . Google the book.you might find it or research done about it. I feel knowing the truth is our duty..respect.
If Brigham had just sent a text, all would have been safe. Ooops, no text service then. Gotcha, I meant to say telegram. Wait, when did telegram line get completed? 1861! Certainly not in 1856. Now you tell me Brigham did not even know? That is the truth Brigham only found out about the Willie and the Martin companies when Willard Richards arrived in early October then immediately sent out rescue riders and wagons! YOUR fact is incorrect!! Try using truth for a change. So easy to repeat lies!!
