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Date: April 23, 2011 12:03PM
After reading, what must be undeniable proof that lamanites existed and so did the gospel in the americas, I have decided to repent and shed this dark skin of apostasy. I will be on my knees in prayer and fast, pleading supplications to his holiness and seeking the redeeming blood of christ to atone for my awful sins. May you all repent and read the following with a prayerful heart and contrite spirit. Be not disbelieving.
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After father )Mosiah Hancock) returned to Utah, the Indians broke out in war, making much trouble for the white settlers before the soldiers were called from Fort Apache, Arizona, to help defend the whites. The redskins killed a man by the name of Robinson and wounded another. They also burned the Pinedale home of father’s oldest son, Lyman, destroying all this family’s goods. They shot at mother’s brother, John, and made the bark fly from a tree just in front of him. And they set fire to a field growing wheat that mother and her brother had planted at Pinedale. While ransacking through Lyman’s things, they found a photograph of father, as Lyman’s wife, Miriam, related later. One Indian held up the photo and called out “Elk! Elk!” Already they were sorry they had robbed the home of Elk’s son. They named father this, for he had outlasted their own fastest runner, “Lightening,” in a 75-mile walking and running race. Lyman’s father had been a missionary among them and they liked him. Strange Indians, not knowing whether to kill him, would open his shirt front, and seeing the LDS garment, given for bodily protection, would release him. (Journal of Mosiah Hancock, pg. 55, 1883)
The following incident was related to the writer in the St. George Temple in the presence of the acting president of the temple, George F. Whitehead, and others. The narrator was Elder David Cannon, a member of the presidency of the Temple, who said that his famous father, David H. Cannon, a prominent pioneer in Southern Utah, was once captured by the savage Navajos, who were anxious to kill him for revenge, one of their braves having been killed a short time before by a party of whites enroute to California.
Many of the native tribes in the southwest had agreed that the Mormons were their friends and should not be molested. For this reason they were requested to keep their hair clipped up to the top pf their ears when traveling in Indian territory. Brother Cannon, who could speak the language of many Indian tribes, had neglected to keep his hair cut in the stipulated manner, and thus his captors refused to believe that he was a member of the society they were pledged to protect. He was tied to a tree, an archer was selected to send an arrow into his chest, yet he contended with that chief that he was a Mormon, whereupon the chief ordered the archer to put aside his bow and arrow for a moment. The angry leader of the Navajos approached the trembling white man and tore open the front of his shirt. When he saw the marks of the priesthood upon his clothing, the spirit of the war-party instantly left the face of the chieftain, and the smile of a friend played upon his rugged features. Removing the buckskin thing which bound the captive, the venerable red man explained: “Many moons ago, when my people were good, and the Great Spirit often visited them, they were permitted to wear those same marks in their clothing, but when my people went to war, and forgot the teachings of the Great Spirit, he never came to them anymore, and they were not permitted thereafter to place those marks in their clothing. "(Mormonism and Masonry, pg. 157-158, E. Cecil McGavin)
" A few years ago Bishop E.P. Pectol, of Torrey, Wayne County, Utah, was excavating in the sand-covered ruins of an ancient Indian village and found several articles of clothing made from buckskin. Mr. Frank Beck, a non-mormon, was among the first to call attention, through the public press, to this remarkable discovery. He did not scruple to label these ancient articles of wearing apparel “The High Priest’s Vestiment.
-Soon after after its discovery, Bishop Pectol wrote this description to that author:-
Yes, we found a set of skins undoubtedly intended for a burial suit from the condition under which they were found. A child had died and was buried in a small cave. Ten feet from the child a larger grave had been started and this roll of tanned skins placed in one end. The soil was then replaced. This tells the story that the one who buried the baby was to be buried later by its side and clothed in these skins.
Only one edge of what we call the robe was evened off by the knife. By the mark we call the left breast mark is a patch of splendid workmanship, indicating that this mark was wanted or it also would have been patched over. Placing this mark at the breast and letting the skin fall as it naturally would, a mark appears in the proper place for the navel mark and very similar. Fold the skin about about you and another mark like that of the knee cones to the proper place. Now from the left breast, passing the skin under the arm and then over the right shoulder, a perfect right breast mark appears at the tight place. Four belts of equal length that would fasten this robe to the body were in the bundle. We liken these to the girdle. A skin with hair on we call the apron, and another smaller one we call the cap. The marks are in the robe. Whether this is a coincidence or not, you can use your own judgment as well as I. If this truly intended for the purpose this suggests, then the shields I have represent the remainder of the Temple ordinances." (Mormonism and Masonry, pg. 72-73, E. Cecil McGavin)
Thats right, repent, REPENT! the book of mormon is truuuuue.
BTW I wish FAIR would use these types of eye witness accounts to verify the claims of the church, God knows it must be true if it is first hand and coming from a Mormon!