Wednesday, October 21, 2009

How AWESOME Genealogy is, we Just realized we are related to President Gordon B. Hincklley :)

My mother and father recently rent to there family reunion on my mothers side, (the Judd side)

That is where they were announcing a few things on genealogy.
President Gordon B. Hinckleys Great grandmother name was Lois Judd Hinckley, which makes that my mothers great Aunt and my great great aunt she is the sister to my moms great grandfather hyrum judd.

Here is a tribute by President Gordon B. Hinckley Daughter's it can be found in the March 2008 Ensign

I am honored to speak on behalf of our family at this solemn and sacred occasion. We desire to raise our voice in celebration of the life of our father and prophet and to bear testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ on this beautiful winter morning.
How grateful we are for the love shown toward our father and to us as his family. We thank you, each one of you, for your prayer and many kindnesses.
We thank the doctors and nurses who have guided his care and have acted with respect, diligence, compassion, and great skill.
We must that Dad's secretary, Don Staheli, and extraordinary man of humility, capacity, and generosity, who, along with a marvelous staff and wonderful security officer, have literally made it possible for our father to fulfill his responsibilities as the President of the Church
We cannot find words to tell you of our love for our father"s associates and their wives. President Monson, President Eyring, and President Faust, whom we miss, have been counselors extraordinaire. President Packer and Quorum of the Twelve, the Presiding Bishopric, the Quorums of Seventy, the general auxiliary officers --as quorums, presidencies, and individuals--we have found them to be devoid of selfish interests and completely dedicated to the kingdom. In that context they have helped, loved and assisted our father and , by extension, us. There is nothing so touching to the human soul as to see men and women of great power extended private, thoughtful, and quiet kindness. Something during the year of 1837 in the back country of Ontario, Canada, John E. Page came preaching the restored gospel of Jesus Christ Wearing the coat Joseph Smith put on his back in Kirtland, Brother Page and his companion taught the gospel to the Hinckley (Gordon B. Hinckley's great grandmother) was among those baptized. With her children and other family member =m she followed the Saints south. By 1843 they found themselves in Springfild, Illinois. Her son Ira Nathaniel Hinckley (they about 14 years of age) made his way to Nauvoo. He became a skilled black smith and builder. He married in 1850 on their way to the Salt Lake Valley, cholera claimed Ira's young wife and half brother, He buried them himself on the same day, then picked up his 11-month-old baby and finished the journey. Ira would spend the rest of his life answering the needs of a colonizing Church. Cove Fort stands today as the product of his able workmanship and devotion.
Ira Nathaniel's Son Bryand S. Hinckley (father of President Hinckley) was and educator, teaching at Brigham Young Academy and the LDS Business College. He was president of the largest stake in the Church for many years. He knew heartache and faced challenges that would test the faith of the strongest Saint, but he never wavered in devotion to the Lord and His Church.
Speaking at a devotion at BYU in 1999, President Hinckley recalled these "three generations of my forebears who have been faithful in the Church. Reflecting on (their) lives ...," he said, "I looked down at my daughter, at here daughter, who is my grandchild, and at her children, my great-grandchildren. I suddenly realized that I stood right in the middle of these seven generations--three before me and three after me... There passed through my mind a sense of the tremendous obligation that was mine to pass on all that I had received as an inheritance from my forbears to the generations who have now come after me."`
As part of those generations who have come after him, we thank him and our mother for the tempered strength of their link between our forebears and us. Our parents loved us, taught us, corrected us, laughed and prayed for and with us. We honor them. And we likewise pledge to pass on to future generations our complete devotion to the Savior and His Church.
But this isn't just about our little family: 5 children, 25 grandchildren, and 63 great-grandchildren. Because as President Hinckley has often told us, we are all one great family--some 134 million strong--sharing an inheritance of Faith and enjoying a covenant relationship with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, with responsibilities to help one another along the way.
Our father was adorable. And he was a marvel to watch. Disciplined and courageous, with an unbelievable capacity for work, he believed in growth. A favorite scripture reads: "That which is of God is light; and he that receiveth more light; and that light growth brighter and brighter until the perfect day" (D&C 50:24) That process of continual growth is the story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that he loved to tell, as well as the story of his own life. That kind of growth requires faith, courage, discipline, and hard work--partnered with gracious had of the Lord.
At no time was this growth process seen more forcefully by us as a family than during the past four years, the capstone years of his life. Following the death of Mother, his grief was almost overwhelming. Characteristically, he acknowledged it--felt it, wept, and mourned deeply. He went to the Lord with his tears, thus allowing the loss to carve our and even deeper place in his hear for compassion and dig an even deeper well of faith and trust in God. Then, with that increase in compassion and faith,k he put on his shoes and went back to work--in every sense of the word.
Two years latter as he faced a diagnosis of cancer, he repeated the pattern. He did what all of us would do--he mourned the loss of good health and felt the fear of a decease that had taken his mother, his brother, and two of his sisters. Knowing that his life was in the hands of the Lord and feeling the power of the prayers of millions of you, he said that he felt compelled to do his part. And with the wonderful help of medical friends, He did just that--with courage and good humor. The result was a miraculous two-year extension of his life, when he could get up each morning, put on his shoes, and go to work.
Exactly one week prior to his death he offered the dedicatory prayer of a renovated chapel in Salt Lake City. In that prayer, in a very unusual way, he petitioned the Lord for himself as prophet. He spoke with gratitude that "from the days of Joseph Smith to the present Thou hast chosen and appointed a prophet to this people. We thank Thee and plead with Thee that Thou wilt comfort and sustain him and bless him according to his needs and Thy great purposes."
we bear testimony that his peaceful passing in evidence that the Lord heard and answered his prayers according to his needs and the great purposes of Him who reigns in the heavens, who died that we might live forever and in whose name we close--even the name of Jesus Christ, our redeemer, amen.

2 comments:

Marianne said...

How very nice! I think if we all did some digging we would be amazed who we are related to! You know that awful man "Long Shanks" in the movie "Braveheart"? Dee's family comes through him on one line! Yikes!! I'd rather have President Hinckley!

Edwin & Tamara said...

Oh my that is interesting, I would too :)









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