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From the article: Furthermore, Brigham Young University also includes the account as part of their curricula for incoming freshmen who have taken their "Religious Education Intro to LDS Family History (Genealogy)" course. In the BYU version of the account, the comment includes how "those men who laid the foundation of this American Government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of Heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were CHOICE SPIRITS, not wicked men."

On June 23, Lds had this special worldwide broadcast to its wards about its new missionary emphasis.

In this two-hour presentation, a pre-recorded clip
-- an interview with a long-time Mormon convert --
--Neill F. Marriott (she converted pre-marriage, pre-11 children after graduating from Southern Methodist University) was conducted...
[For who she is, you can see: General Auxiliaries: Sister Neill F. Marriott]...
Anyway, Mrs. Marriott talked about her 11 children as also being "choice spirits"...

What does the term "choice spirits" mean in Mormon culture...

That "special spirits" who existed in the alleged "pre-existence" came down from another planet and inhabited particular bodies.

Could Mrs. Marriott be referring to "spirit babies" - the idea that ancestor Mormons in their heaven are creating spirit babies that need "tabernacles" or bodies and those on Earth now need to make lots of babies so that these "spirit babies" will have a place to go.

It's been awhile since i read about it, but that's the general idea I got. HTH.

In before the personal attacks....

Leave it alone..mormon style.

The Mormon church is preparing to blanket the globe with more missionaries than ever as a surge of young men and women pack their white shirts, ties and knee-length skirts.

More than 29,000 church members are expected to report in coming months, bringing the worldwide total of missionaries proselytizing and performing community service to an all-time high of 85,000 by this fall, new church estimates show.

That's 38 percent more than at any other time in history.

At least one church analyst predicts the total could swell to more than 100,000 next year before it levels out somewhat in the next several years. That would be nearly double the number of missionaries the church had during most of the 2000s.

BUT....FR mormons whine and complain about the presence of a few dozen FReepers who bring the truth about mormonism to light.

Church leaders “daily reference” this??? Your credibility is, once again, exposed as near-zero.

I am in my 50’s and have been actively involved in the LDS church for a lifetime, living in multiple states, and I have never, ever heard a church leader reference this, even once.

My impression is that you seem to fall into the category of those who lie to deceive because they suppose that others are lying to deceive.

The 'spirits appearing to people' thing is in D&C or POGP. When the original temple is fired up, first the prophet Isaiah appears to the leader, and everyone goes hubbahubba to it (Smith? I can't remember. It's been a lifetime since I read it.). Then, further on, it say Isaias appears, and everyone is amazed, except that Isaias is the greek form of Isaiah, so Isaiah actually appeared twice. Maybe he wore a Groucho nose the second time, so nobody would know.

I quit taking Mormonism seriously after that.

The LDS culture sees the division between the living and the dead as a thin and two-way passable veil. It is commonplace for dead relatives to visit and say things to the living(necromancy, talking to dead people, which scripture forbids) in the LDS world.

Cemeteries in the LDS culture are active places, where the living relatives will leave gifts, leave little solar lights and decorations, leave candles, even leave treats, in the thinking that it will please their relatives.

The cemetery, in fact, is one of the most telling places to indicate that indeed, Mormonism is paganism with a Christian veneer.

We watch it every day, as we live in a 90% LDS community, and our front door has faced the cemetery across the street for the last 23 years.