My Pioneers – by Neil Taylor

by aubrirobinson | Apr 23, 2022 | All Member Stories, Callings/Leadership, Testimonies/Spiritual Experiences, Trials and Challenges

I grew up on a farm near Burley, Idaho. Burley is where the “Ida” part of “Ore-Ida” potato products come from. My father was called as a bishop of a country ward when I was six years old. He only served for three years because of an illness in...

Not a Stranger, Not a Foreigner – by Grant Smith

by aubrirobinson | Apr 23, 2022 | All Member Stories, Testimonies/Spiritual Experiences, Trials and Challenges

A while ago I decided I needed a sabbatical from the Church. I was not in a good place spiritually or mentally. No one in the ward had offended me. No one in the ward intentionally neglected me. But for whatever reason, I felt unaligned with the Church I had known and...

Help with the Floods: 2019 – by Stephani Price

by aubrirobinson | Apr 20, 2022 | All Member Stories, Service, Trials and Challenges

On the evening of 27 June 2019, record rainfall was recorded at the Rochester, Minnesota airport resulting in closure for several hours overnight. Fillmore, Olmsted and Dodge counties sustained flash flooding with the hardest hit area west of Rochester near Oxbow...

The Book of Mormon Reading Challenge – by Ruth Symons

by aubrirobinson | Apr 20, 2022 | All Member Stories, Miracles/Healing, Testimonies/Spiritual Experiences, The Spirit/Promptings, Trials and Challenges

Rochester 1st Ward I came to visit my daughter Amy Ettore and her family for Amy’s birthday at the end of July and heard about President Foote’s challenge to read the Book of Mormon. I decided to participate in the challenge beginning with Alma, since I had not read...

The Death of My First Wife – by President Darrell Krueger

by aubrirobinson | Apr 20, 2022 | All Member Stories, Callings/Leadership, Miracles/Healing, Prayer, Trials and Challenges

11 January 1998 Rochester 1st Ward I was left alone with a little son when I was first married. After 3 years, my wife died and I had a 15-month old son. And I recall my prayers. I asked the Lord to let me know that he would bless me with a companion and that he would...

My Broken Foot and Christ’s Atonement – by Michael Haddock

by aubrirobinson | Apr 19, 2022 | All Member Stories, Ministering, Testimonies/Spiritual Experiences, Trials and Challenges, Youth Activities

Hymn 125:  How gentle God’s commands!  How kind his precepts are!  Come, cast your burdens on the Lord and trust his constant care. I was asked by the stake history committee to recount a story I told in stake conference on May 3, 2015 when I was serving as 2nd...