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Show TII HITES usua.lly get pretty tired and g1ve bef·ore then.. Bd rqy faith •s tl~t. atrong that tb'art "l:te poseibla. Ona winter evening Just tort~-nine 7ea.n ago thls winter (i .. e . , 18~) I ss chopping od. out in the enowan ® a bent eigh~een or t went 7 lnebes deep-and I saw that ' ~ coming up the at t--eet. and t he 1npreas1on oeme to me that tJ.la.t 's one of the Three Nephitea, ao I tched him. -ll ttp t .~- e atr .et apt on chopping but kept tching him. He com on up and co up t c me and sa.1d.- •Young min, I've C'Oflle to h!!lve a t alk with :vo • - Co on. 11'1 the houLl-e.. I 1'To got so et.hing to shov; you, and to have a ta. with yotL n I didn •t invit~ him 1n at all- he come right in my om p. 11 horr.e d o~ed the door f r me. !!•he oouse has beEil torn do-wn, but t hat •s a pietu.l'$ of it . (He eho%/ied the collectors a. picture· of tha house, a.n1 pointed cut the room where he sat t th$ Nephi t . e.) I mnst n•t tall yt'U ttll h told me·; it would hit you t -oo h~rd~ I had aroWld half an hcu?'1's eotnr rsat1 n witb. that nan_. Re ta.ll""..ed about o"tlr templ•s. 'H• talked a.botm the dist-nr~, . C&$ that 'v co e 'Up in the, Chut"ch. and he give me ·to mdersta:nd that fact that the Almighty God, 'the ftemal ~ther . \'VOUld neven: g!ve us anything ar:q mor-e that sur .. es or exeell t tlt Book of f.b.- on" That ~ t.he grs1c1.t st t h ine $V -r co to tr~ people of this dis"'Penaatton :fo-r 01:tr gnida. I pr-e t1-aed. im harr_ to know ~.at his na.111$ v;ae.. I didn •t now then that p:t•eilct ion in the l3ook ef fL~mon that tha-1-r n s i d never be lmo~r~n . 5o when I asked him ,t his name· 'ASs so I'd kno~ which one be was he didn tt tell me. He was a .f~ne looking man-the set of h1a eyes. se sweet u.nd pret t fine h .. d. of bair~-his noae,. $Yell a;nd. perfect-the finest QQwplexion I ever aaw on a, hur:oan being. :tio child •er bom bad as .fine. a compluion as t -hat. u.a.n. It wouldn't do for ms to give you al~ our conver·aat1on. I·t ould b-e too hard for you... I Y6.S never asked to nako it ltnovn ~ Stran~··e to s..~:v. you ar.e the only people WfW a.aked :me· that question (me 1ng, 1t be had ever· sean OD;• of t h Three liephltes) .. The dieturbane s I . ent thro-ugh a outl1nsd. .... tha troubles which e we~ th~o'U,.~h . It sn't long be:t .. ore th1a p&ople was eon:fTOntevi With t ld.s question: HWflat shall tre do about pol yeamy?rt He outline those trcm,blss then*t he troubles coming to this peo--ple. I wa.s wonderfullJ disturbed at that tim •. Things te.d t _, _en plt.:ice in this rd 'b~uae I stood. on an injustice hen I was 1n the b1;3hop-r1e_.I ~a o~at, then-an eonsolat ion c through ·w 1ch I ~s reecm..ciled full7, an also eonfi ·d rrq con.- iation. ·that I already' b.9..dr, that the ~ 2.! ,.. 1Qrn.on ~rpJt· a.at lly from the only God and zs a guide to t hese peonl- • en t hat man left me I question him hard \vhere he was ~on:. Ue was · ry point i in. not answering ms or quest! a .. !!e didn't tell me: hi s name. be did.n.'t tell jTh1t ?.r"le-re he . · s gcing . He give me to u:r,.d.art;tand he ~c !l north . VJhen e l&.ft .. e he l ft a sud.derl..._ he OIJene t :1e door ar1 shut it , and t.. •s all. I enad th~ |
