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To: Colofornian

I wish I could see one. Or a UFO.


10 posted on 10/14/2010 5:56:18 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Same here, I have heard spirits and felt spirits but I have never seen one. I would have to see an apparition to truly believe. In other words, I’d like to get off this fence.


12 posted on 10/14/2010 6:02:55 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: onedoug; All
I wish I could see one.

Well if you also go to this thread, They see dead people?, you can see other Mormon claims about seeing dead people -- enough to the extent that according to the article:

Prior to the dedication of the San Diego temple in 1993, local Mormon families were given a packet entitled Family Temple Preparation Material. Included in this written material were about seven pages devoted to "true stories" of temple patrons who were visited by the dead. Fourth Mormon Prophet Wilford Woodruff told followers in 1887, "The dead will be after you, they will seek after you as they have after us in St. George (Journal of Discourses 19:229). Woodruff is referring to the St. George temple in southern Utah. He also stated, “I will here say that two weeks before I left St. George, the spirits of the dead gathered around me, wanting to know why we did not redeem them. Said they, "You have had the use of the Endowment House for a number of years, and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apostatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to God. These were the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and they waited on me for two days and two nights (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, p.160).

Mormons now include this Woodruff account in their Sunday School lessons (Lesson is from their "Doctrine and Covenants and Church History," "The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn to Their Fathers..." p. 3 references the Woodruff St. George temple spirits' account).

44 posted on 10/14/2010 9:33:14 AM PDT by Colofornian
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