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I am descendants of Jacob Hamblin I am thankful for you story about him

I’m a descendant of George Washington Hill. He holds the record for the most Native American baptisms. He didn’t seek them out they came to him. They would ride into town looking for him. Upon meeting him they told him that they were sent by the Great White Chief. He was supposed to teach them more of the Gospel and baptize them. He asked them what the Great White Chief’s name was. He was informed that the Great White Chief didn’t say what his name was, only the he was cast into a fire 3 times and a den of wild beast twice and was not harmed. You may want to do a story on George Washington Hill.

I loved hearing about our Native brothers and sisters. Thank you.

What wonderful stories! ❤ We visited the Hopi narion in 2017 and were astonished at their rituals. They resemble our Temple ceremonies.

Beautiful story re Sister Lee with her courage before the renegade Navajo. My ancestor Levi Stewart first bishop of Kanab. Levi was the first person to teach John D Lee in the gospel and later John D Lee and My Levi Stewart served as missionary companions on several occasions. Notwithstanding the serious error and tragic events which Brother Lee fail into he contributed much to Zion and so has many of his descendants such as Senator Mike Lee, Soliticer General Rex D Lee and I also believe President Harold B Lee. Excellent pioneer stories , inspiring re Jacob Hamlin missions to the Lamanites. Thank you

That was incredible. I live in the Yucatán peninsula among children of Lehi here also, and there are beautiful things that I have heard that have happened. I don’t know of anything so direct as angelic messengers relaying that the Book of Mormon is their history, but there are ancient prophecies and special experiences that the natives here will say if they trust you. One of which being angels in traditional attire visiting, asking for simple things, and then walking off and disappearing.

Thanks for another fantastic video! You have renewed my commitment to loving all people regardless of differences in opinion, faith, race, age, political persuasion, etc.

I had a co-worker tell me when his great great grandfather settle in Arizona he was a rancher. This one particular year there was a lot of hunger in the indian village. My co-worker's great great grandfather drove up some cattle to the Indian village. He said latter when the other settlers had problems with the indians he never did.

Bonjour Je suis français. Membre de l'eglise de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours . Je vous remercie , car les histoires que vous racontez ( histoires vécues par des personnes de cette époque ) rétablissent enfin la vérité sur les relations qui existaient entre les indiens et les saints de l'époque.... Nous assistons de temps en temps en France a des reportages sur l'eglise qui quand ils ne sont pas animés de mauvaise intentions , prennent un malin plaisir à déformer la vérité et a ne se contenter que de propos tenu par des personnes mécontentes, ce qui malheureusement nui a L'eglise et a l'image que l'on s'en fait .... J'espère sincèrement qu'un jour plus de personnes puissent avoir l'opportunité de vous écouter 😊 . Que Dieu vous benisse .

another great story

Brother Merrill, I know just who to send this message to in my ward. I believe these stories will be helpful to him, thank you.

Wonderful stories as usual! ❤ Thank you for sharing a part of Billy's story! Funny thing about that. I had just started listening when I recieved a message from a beloved family member telling me that you had talked about him. (Billy) 😂

Butch Cassidy is on my Parker Family Tree (but Wilford Woodruff is on the other side so it balances out!) Your title caught my attention so I listened and loved the stories of mutual respect and friendship between the Indian tribes and the early settlers. Darn that bad apple!

I love listening to your stories. Every night when I go to bed. I play one of your videos. They relax me and I never fall asleep until they are over. So uplifting, Thank you for these!

Love these stories!

I enjoyed these stories, my ancestors Bishop Levi Stewart and Riley Stewart knew Jacob Hamlin. I admire Jacob Hamlin and the numerous accomplished descendants of John D. Lee and the outstanding church service of the Lee family.

Another fantastic and powerful lesson! I think it’s really cool how forward thinking the church was during those early days. Church leaders and members were largely very accepting and embracing of all people; Native Americans, black people, women, allowing for more participation in the church than other comparative churches during that time. Of course, we have had our issues with this in subsequent years, but it strengthens my testimony to think about how the church was established and restored upon the principles of acceptance, belonging, and unity!

Excellent message! Thank you!!

Your videos are a treasure to me.

Thanks for sharing those wonderful stories of our native Americans. We can learn alot from their culture. Us Europeans seem to like to isolate ourselves alone in our homes with our machines. While the native culture enjoys doing their work together in a community on the reservation. The Jewish people in Israel have perfected that lifestyle on their kibbutzim.

I'm starting to thing Ammon's story was the most important part of Alma

Thank you. I loved each and every story. Thank you very much for sharing them.

Wonderful video

Very nice

I love your stories, I am from Southern Alberta, I wondered when President Nelson announced another Temple close to Cardston what that meant. Will Cardston be turned into a Lamanite temple in the future.?

This was such a beautiful experience, thank you. New subscriber. ❤

This makes me believe the heartland thery all the more!

I used to read a lot about the Buckskin Apostle. I went through his St George home probably over 20 years ago. He worked with a lot of tribes. The Hopi story is amazing. To this day, the Hopi reservation is still protected by the Navajo Tribe. The Hopi Reservation is within the Navajo Reservation on all four sides. Eventually he was killed by natives, I can't remember but I think it was Apache. It seemed like he started running into trouble after the Mountain Meadows Massacre that took place on his property even though he was not there and had agreed for the travellers to use the property. I think there was some loss of trust because of what those involved had said trying to blame the tribes. If I remember right, it seems that his problems after that with the natives were because of other members.

I love this true history’s 😊

Modern day Ammon.

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Shame on this bishop Parker, I'll give all I got for an opportunity like that one. The Church will not fulfill its mission until the lamanites are restored. They need a lot of nursing and a long time of good examples

Are you talking about the Brigham Young who stopped the Relief Society for 20 years and said, "...When I want Sisters or the Wives of the members of the church to get up Relief Society I will summon them to my aid but until that time let hem stay at home & if you see Females huddling together veto the concern and if they say Joseph started it tell them it is a damned lie for I know he never encouraged it." Or are you talking about the BY who practiced blood atonement, taught the Adam/God theory and knowingly had men, women, and children murdered in the Mountain Meadows Massacre and then had the stones to blame it on the Indigenous people of the area.

You mean to tell me, that Big Foot is real? 😂

1874? Butch would have been 8 years old.

Powel sure didn’t like the “Mormons”

They were kicked out due to their palagomy and child abuse.

is there a book with these stories that i could buy?

Brother Merrill, I love your stories. But I don’t like all the obnoxious commercials. But if you get money from them, I will be patient with them. I pray you’ll be blessed.

who shot Gov of Missouri? Bet Porter

Butch Cassidy was 10-12 years old at the time he had nothing to do with anything of that nature. That is totally BS