State's Exhibit 252 - PH October 6, 2004

Wednesday, October 6,2004
RI
8:50 a.m. Dictation
My last dictation was at Amarillo, Texas,
Monday afternoon. I want to start this dictation
first by testifying in the name of the Lord that I
know God lives. And the Lord has sent me on a
the couple of months to travel among
thIS wIcked natIOn to witness their degradation and
corruption. And this is the testimony of the Lord
and of his Spirit I give, seeking His Spirit to bear
record eternally in behalf of the faithful and
against the wicked that wherever we have gone,
the Lord in His mercy has favored us with His
heavenly protection. We have felt the heavenly
fire and everywhere we have stayed the Lord has
been there and Father and the Prophets and the
heavenly sessions have been given and revelation
has continued and this is a testimony on earth that
the Lord has given by experience to His servant.
And I now declare it that the Lord is able to
bless His children, and though we travel among
people filled with great wickedness, those who
seek unto the Lord, receive of the heavenly gifts,
and the heavenly gifts and powers and Priesthood
on the earth being empowered by God is a
testimony against this generation that the Lord our
God is fully able and does bless the faithful and
He could bless all His children on this land and
upon the face of the earth if they would seek unto
Him; yet throughout all this land I have witnessed
that none doeth good, all have gone astray, and the
Lord in His mercy, as we have sought unto Him,
has favored us, myself and those with me to
discern the wickedness and darkness ofthe people
even to where the Lord has awakened me to see the
spirit of destruction that was among the Jaredites at
their destruction and among the Nephites at their
destruction is now among the people on this land
of Zion in the people called the United States of
America and of Canada and also of Mexico and the
South American countries.
The Lord has had me perform a work of
traveling among the wicked to where I have been
to 42 of the 48 states of the United States on this
continent that are connected together. Some
places had a greater darkness than others but all
were darkness. And I bear witness that the Lord in
His mercy and love protected us, telling us where
to go even to flee certain places before terrible
wickedness could happen among us or against us
as the evil powers were seeking our destruction
everywhere for the Lord showed me and has given
the lesson of how to live in a constant dedicated
condition among the wicked as a training of how
we must live into eternity, a fervency of faith
exerted unto God lest pride and thus evil take hold.
And our relationship with our Heavenly Father is
through a living fervent constant faith of devotion
the l.ove of the exercised, our motive
the JOY of the mcrease of the Spirit of God, the
possession and gifts of the heavenly Spirit
mspmng us to greater and great knowledge and
works.
With every knowledge of the Spirit of God
given, every increase should come an increased
fervency and increased obedience. And this is the
testimony the Lord has favored this His servant
with that God lives, and He can bless His children
in this day as well as any former time, and He will
yet bless the faithful as they seek unto Him with
full devotion, of the love of the Father exerted for I
have wondered and sought unto the Lord I
to learn in this mission of going among the
WIcked as the gross wickedness is so offensive to
the Spirit of God, and I yearn for Zion to a greater
degree than ever before. I yearn for the knowledge
and presence of God not only to be given me but to
be given a prepared people. And the Lord has also
given me the training and lesson of what the
people will become if they fall away.
They WIll become more darkened than this wicked
generation and perform more terrible works of
darkness than anything I have seen among the
wicked. And we can expect that those who fall
away from the Priesthood in this day will persecute
the faithful and commit gross acts of immorality
murder and wickedness. And I am pleading
WIth the Lord by his command, day and night I am
pleading with the Lord to send the whirlwind
judgments now.
This wicked nation must be destroyed as a
protection for Zion to grow and the righteous to be
preserved. It must be destroyed. Everywhere I
went throughout this land, none sought after the
Lord or the Priesthood even the religions that are
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called the Christian religions had their ministers
and churches right among the most wicked places
where the people could perform their wickedness
and then go to church and then go back to their
wickedness. So I bear this testimony of the Lord,
thanking Him for His kind mercy and grace
extended to us. And I don't want this world or its
ways. Zion cannot be built up on the remnants of
Babylon. And as the Lord allows me to go on into
the Millennium, perform the work He appoints,
thus Him doing it, all honor and glory to Him for
this testimony being on earth as well as recorded in
the heavens before all the heavenly hosts and the
Spirit beareth record against this wicked
generation. Thank God for God himself and the
Godhead and the Prophets and Priesthood.
My Father pressed upon me a few days before
his passing, "Warren, you will act on correct
principle won't you." And I said, "Yes, Father, I
will act on correct principle." And the Lord has
shown me that correct principle means to learn the
will of God and do it. Righteousness means to
learn the will of God and do it. So we must walk
and talk with God and dwell in constant revelation
to live by correct principle. And his character and
His laws are eternal; they never change, yet the
physical circumstances of where to be and what to
do change from experience to experience. Where
the Lord will say: Do this to be protected and then
do that to be protected. I have also been yearning
unto the Lord for the fulness of Zion to be
established on this land of refuge as the Lord
promised would happen and also the other lands of
refuge that have the fulness of Zion established
there. I hope and pray the Lord has sent us here to
bring blessings of God and His presence and thus
we experienced the heavenly session through the
night of atonement and the presence of God and
the angels and I thank Heavenly Father for that gift
and privilege among us. And oh, I yearn for the
Lord to hasten my preparation. Though many of
the Priesthood people will fall away through
rejecting the greater light, there will be a few
individuals chosen, prepared and then brought as a
group into the presence of God. So my yearning
prayers is that I and a people will be prepared with
the heavenly gifts and powers and the protection of
the Lord to earn the fulness of Zion in every way.
The Lord has also been pressing upon me to
train my ladies in the fulness of the Celestial Law
how to be a comfort and strength and close in every
way and do all that they do through the powers of
the Spirit through prayer and oneness with the
Priesthood over them to be a comfort and strength
in a time of great need and atonement. The wives
of the Prophet have this mission and calling. Many
of the ladies sealed to me have been slow getting
close. Now the Lord wants me to hasten that
training. I pray that He will allow them the
heavenly sessions and His presence in connection
with their husband, His servant. The Lord has
directed the First Presidency will go to R17 and
perform the work of receiving their holy
anointings.
September 28, 2004, I had Naomie rest in the
afternoon at Amarillo, Texas as she had been
without sleep for some time. I had sent Joshua to
meet Nephi Jeffs who brought Millie to Joshua at
Lubeck, Texas, and then Joshua brought her to
Amarillo. And she arrived around 6:00 p.m. I
spent the afternoon reading some ofthe revelations
and scriptures as well as letters I had received on
Monday from R 17 and other letters from the
people. With Millie there we ate dinner and took
her through the training the Lord required that she
witness some of the ways of the world at that time
through the television to be warned against what
men among the world are like in their violence and
immorality. Millie and Naomie received training
on how to administer the ordinance of comfort and
strength, and then the Lord took me through the
heavenly session. And He showed me on Monday
and into Tuesday that someone or some people in
Zion's camp had betrayed me and the First
Presidency and somehow our enemy had found out
that we were to go to R17 by October 1. And this is
why the Lord had held me in place at Amarillo,
Texas since Saturday night where I could have
gone to the General Meetings at either place of
refuge close by had the Lord sent me and also the
cause the people on the lands of refuge to exert
themselves more fervently for the offered
blessings. The Lord withheld me from calling R17
and telling them these things until after October 1,
even withholding me from calling Uncle Merril
and telling him and as a test on the brethren at R17
to see if they would prepare fully.
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So without direct contact I got word through
Millie that Uncle Merril went ahead and finished
the footings for the temple, and yes they did
accomplish the Lord's schedule finishing both
LeRoy Jeffs' house and Merril Jessop's house
before midnight October 1. I thank the Lord that
He gave them those gifts and blessings. But still
Zion's camp is under condemnation and the Lord
has shown me that Zion's camp, and the
Priesthood people will be scourged now but
through a more fervent repentance the doors of
deliverance and protection will open for
individuals who will prove faithful yet there will
be a scourging now because we are not one and the
Lord has been giving me many dreams and
revelations preparing me for the terrible scenes we
will witness, and yet I must live in a constant
prayer of rejoicing with the vision of Zion and of
eternity always alive and exerted and active so that
I will not falter but rejoice in the Lord that He is in
control and will guide every experience and event
that I will go through and that this people will go
through to the good of His work. And Zion will be
established. And do you have that testimony
Naomie? And I testify that Naomie has been a
helpmate and strength empowered by the Spirit of
God through her closeness and oneness exerted,
and I thank the Lord for her.
While Millie was there I was impressed that she
would be with us at times traveling among the
wicked and I had Naomie cut several inches of her
hair, shorter like Naomie's against the time when
Millie would travel with us. But the Lord showed
me that Millie should get back to R17 so that there
would be someone on that land of refuge who has
received their holy anointings, pleading with the
Lord for deliverance from the powers of evil and
that the Lord will send His servant and the First
Presidency there.
In my travels I had found out that Millie had
used the phone at R17 to call another phone that
could be traced so now I will have to get rid of my
group of phones which I am arranging. I also
found out through Sam Barlow that our lawyers
were going ahead with our defense and answering
the courts without our permission. And so I
arranged for LeRoy Jeffs to write letters that I
would sign and the trustees of the United Effort
Plan would sign and that he would go back to Short
Creek. That will be dictated here. I was impressed
in the night that I should go east and that Millie
should go south to R17. So while we arranged
things in Amarillo, Joshua took Millie down to
meet Nephi down at Lubeck. And Nephi took
Millie on down to R17. Joshua came back. By
11 :00 a.m. we were out and about.
A few of us went and obeyed the Lord's
directive to go to a suntanning salon where you can
go in private into a booth and get on a light bed, a
bed with certain lights that give certain radiation
and tan the skin. I did not do it that day. We left
Amarillo, Texas by 12:30 p.m., going through
Texas and then Oklahoma. By 9:00 p.m. we
entered Arkansas and arrived at the city of Fort
Smith Arkansas by 10:00 p.m. In calling R17
Millie told me they had finished the footings for
the temple that night. I went through the heavenly
session. We stayed at a cheaper motel, and I
actually went through a severe atonement through
the night into the morning until about 9: 00 our time
as we were in Central Time so we had to always
check out of our hotels an hour or two early. But
the Lord strengthened me. Naomie was a help.
Thank the Lord for her. We were able to get out of
that area. Heavenly session until 10:30 at the
motel in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
We left the motel by 11: 15 a.m. heading east.
And just before noon, Wednesday, September 29,
having received word from Isaac on his phone call
to Short Creek David Harker was doing strange
things at R23. I have been yearning unto the Lord
to show me if the evil powers had come among the
people at R23 and yes, David Harker, the stepson
of Jarold Williams now, his mother is Phyllis
married to Jarold Williams, Phyllis Jessop, Edson
Jessop's daughter. David Harker had received
many revelations of satan and had stepped forth to
correct his mother and also correct Jerold Williams
in things. And David Harker did one right thing in
that he wanted to talk to me before he gave Jerold
Williams the word of the Lord as he called it. And
I immediately told David Harker in my phone call
to R23 that he was out of order. I gave him a long
training on the gift of revelation and showed him
how he was receiving the revelations of satan and
he needed to repent quickly or he would be
overcome. And he outwardly voiced humility and
said he would go and make it right and in my call
later to Jerold Williams I told him what I said to
David; yet as it progressed, David Harker
Williams did not humble himself. And before I
arrived here at Rl I got word that David Harker
was so filled with the devil he took poison, in
taking certain chemicals and chemical cleaners
saying it would, he got revelation that these
poisons would heal his body. At that point I knew
he was overcome of the devil. I sought the Lord
and the Lord showed me that David Harker
Williams does not hold Priesthood and he had to be
dismissed from this mission. I will name that in
the time that it happened.
I did talk to the Bishop in Short Creek on certain
matters. 6:22 p.m. we entered Tennessee, crossing
the Mississippi River and stayed a Memphis. By
7:30 p.m. had some food. Into September 30,
2004, Thursday, I went through the heavenly
session. That is when I talked to Sam Barlow
about the lawyers. We left Memphis at 8:00 in the
morning. By 8:40 entered Mississippi. 10:25 a.m.
we entered Alabama. At 12:30 in the afternoon I
went through the capital city called Birmingham,
Alabama. At all these places I would kick the dust
of my feet off, holding my arm to the square and by
the authority of the holy Priesthood and the keys
and powers thereof, deliver each state and major
cities and the peoples of the states over to the
judgments of God, asking the Lord to send His
whirlwindjudgments in His time and way. At2:11
p.m. we entered Georgia and I continued that work
throughout the whole mission these last many
weeks traveling among the wicked, continuing the
work through prayer and ordinance, delivering this
wicked generation over to the whirlwind
judgments of God and asking the Lord to protect
and prosper Zion.
At 6:06 p.m. we entered South Carolina and by
8:30 as the Lord directed we traveled and arrived at
Charleston, South Carolina. We stayed at our
motel there and I marveled that I was sent to the sea
coast of the Atlantic Ocean, so far away from the
lands of refuge on the very day October 1, that the
First Presidency could have been at the temple site
laying the stones to build the temple. And how my
heart yearned and does yearn for this mission of
the redemption of Zion to succeed and though
Zion's camp and the people of the Priesthood will
be scourged, the Lord will preserve the individuals
who are qualifying for advanced ordinances and
knowledge and eventually the presence of God. In
the heavenly session into Friday, October 1, 2004,
until 9:00 a.m. our time, Rl time which was 11 :00
a.m. eastern time the Lord showed me that I was
not to call the people at R 17 until after midnight
October 1, that the temple would yet be built, that
there was much good on the lands of refuge and
that individuals are qualifying but that Zion's
camp will be scourged and cleaned up. And I
yearned unto the Lord for the privilege to atone
and sacrifice and labor and earn the blessing; Him
giving it and doing it that Zion would be redeemed
and the lands of refuge preserved and this has been
my constant fervent prayer through this whole
mission and continually. I was to go witness the
people. We left our hotel at 10:23 a.m.
I went to the beach and saw that the people had
their houses and condominiums and hotels all
along the beach throughout South Carolina along
the sea coast. And they would just go out and
sunbath naked and live for self pleasure. The Lord
has impressed me that we need to go into hiding
among the wicked and He is requiring us to have
the Spirit of God protect us and yet be able to even
sunbath among the wicked but not partake of their
spirit. Though this may seem such a contradiction,
the Lord has shown me it is a matter of our very
life's sake of protection to be able to hide among
the wicked. And how I yearned the Lord would
preserve us in this thing. So by 1 :00 p.m. we
stopped at Litchfield Beach and we got a motel
room right on the beach where we were able to
change and get in our covering and walked out
with our chairs and sat a little way from the motel
right on the beach. We laid there in our swim suits
and as I have always done, I raised my arm to the
square and dedicated ourselves to the Lord and that
mission of obedience of going into hiding unto
Him. And it was marvelous.
Again, as we sat on the beach, the beach was
full of people both directions, to our left and our
right and yet one hundred yards each way, nobody
came near us to sit and be around us. There were
people that walked down by the water mostly as
we were up away from the water and they would
walk past us jogging or sunbathing as they walked.
At first a couple of men sat within a hundred feet of
us and then walked away. And I thank the Lord
with rejoicing that we could be there in hiding
among the wicked and the wicked people not seek
after us or come around us, even to the point that I
was impressed to run and get in the water with
Naomie and while we did that nobody came
around. And that was my first experience of
jumping in the waves of the ocean of the sea and
the water was quite warm and very salty and it
cleared our sinuses and we had a time of rejoicing
together in the water about thirty minutes. The
Lord then showed us it was time to leave by
bringing the clouds and the storm clouds around.
And at 4:00 p.m. after getting showered and
washed and yes, in our gentile short sleeved
clothes we left Litchfield Beach. I felt impressed
to travel through Myrtle Beach, one of the great
tourist centers of the east and it was amazing:
idolatry and corruption, immorality everywhere.
At that time there was a Harley Davidson
motorcycle gathering, thousands of motorcycles
and the people of every walk oflife, high class and
low class. The Harley Davidson motorcycle is a
tradition in America that has a loud engine a low
motorcycle down to the ground. It is a symbol of
rebellion and Individuals are on it or
couples, long hair, short hair or bald heads, naked,
beer drinking everywhere. The old folks and
young people everywhere along the cities streets
came out and were sitting on stairs watching the
thousands of motorcycle drivers go up and down
the road just being loud, showing their idolatry.
The hotels were filled. And we passed through in
the early evening as the partying on the streets
began. Nakedness everywhere, beer drinking,
liquor drinking, drunks, corruption and oh,
reaching unto the Lord for His Spirit to reveal what
I was witnessing. He showed me the Spirit of
death was among that people. They lived for
partying in a spirit of death and I saw that the spirit
of mob rule was among the people and that none
doeth good there. I drove through Myrtle Beach
city and saw the great hotels line the beach area for
miles. And we stopped at a certain place and I
walked out on the beach saw the people. We drove
down the streets. Every liquor bar was filled, the
restaurants were filled, motorcycles everywhere. I
was impressed to leave that place before dark or as
it was getting dark. And we traveled to and entered
Wilmington, North Carolina at 5:30 p.m. and
arrived at our motel at 7:30.
Just after midnight into October 2, I called the
family and Millie told me they had met the
schedule. From this time on at all our hotels it was
a battle with the evil powers everywhere trying to
enter in among us in our motel rooms and the Lord
allowed me to have to go through the battle as I
went through the heavenly sessions and yet the
Lord and Father and the heavenly powers were
near protecting us. I went through the heavenly
session and I was told to go to Atlantic city, New
Jersey, a city where the casinos are like Los Vegas
and witness the people there. We left our hotel at
8:30 a.m. which was 10:30 eastern time. We did
laundry until 10:30 our time.
At 9:20 while waiting while our laundry was
washing, I called Merril Jessop, had him gather the
men by 10:00. I told Uncle Merril the Lord was
pleased with many of the men and the temple
would yet be built but there were traitors among
Zion's Camp and we were under condemnation
and we would be scourged, yet individuals would
qualify and this mission would succeed. The Lord
in the heavenly session had me give this message
to the men and at my 10:00 call while they were
gathered in the old storehouse dining room on
speaker phone, they heard me give a message
which we have recorded and should go in the
record at this time. I warned them that there were
traitors among us yet many of them pleased God.
The temple would yet be built, yet Zion's Camp
and all the Priesthood people would now be
scourged, that their labors there had great weight
with the Lord and this mission would yet be
accomplished through individual preparation; yet
there would be a cleanup from among us. The men
were directed to return and leave if they could by
noon that day which was Saturday October 2, all
those whose families were in Short Creek. The
men whose families are on R17 land were to
remain, watch over the property and continue their
labors. I then called the family at R17 and gave
them the warning and that they were driving me
away still by not being one. Millie informed me
that she had called another phone not in our
network of security and now I saw I couldn't use
these phones. And I warned her strongly: With all
the good she has done just a simple phone call
could betray me and cause my capture and she
humbled herself greatly.
In Wilmington I looked at their entertainment
section of their newspaper and magazine they
publish and oh the corruption. I will just record
one entertainment they were advertizing as a great
entertainment a theater they should go watch a
play where they depicted a man having a sex
change to become a women and it didn't work and
now this creature was trying to find a normal life;
homosexuality, corruption of every kind delighted
in. The books they advertized were of terrible
immorality, the editorial comments were
advertizing free sex; doing anything they wanted.
My heart is just sickened, sickened, sickened by
this wicked generation, yet the Lord is training us
and training me that in witnessing all this evil, he
wants us to choose good thoughts, tum to Him, and
dwell in the increase of His Spirit. And when the
weight would bear down upon me, turning to the
Lord with rejoicing in Him and adoring His eternal
ways and laws and His character, His Spirit would
serge into me, praying for others, yearning for
Zion to grow and though wickedness was all
around we can dwell in Zion and increase in Zion
even eternally. And that is part of the great
training the Lord is taking me through.
At Wilmington, North Carolina we got on 140 a
freeway that goes from North Carolina all the way
to Borstal, California. The sign said the freeway
was two thousand, five hundred, fifty-four miles
long from that point and we have traveled most of
140 throughout the resent weeks. But we headed
north and got on 195, the freeway along the eastern
coast and entered Virginia at 2:45 p.m., entered
Maryland at 4:50 p.m when we crossed the
Potomac River, went through Washington D.C. at
5:30 p.m., went through Baltimore at 6:00 p.m.,
entered Delaware at 7:00 p.m., entered New Jersey
at 7:15 or so p.m. By 8:30 we were driving through
Atlantic city. We stopped at the casinos and as we
drove down the streets of Atlantic City the greatest
spirit of darkness and death was felt among that
people. Men were crowded in a line waiting to go
into the nude bars. The naked dancers could not be
seen from the streets but the people crowded the
streets. It was mostly black people out on the
streets but at the nude bars it was mostly white
people, tourists. And there were these rich elegant
hotels built to bring about the corruption of the
people and out on the streets were the poor mostly
black people with violence and the spirit of death
among them. The casino workers were on strike
everywhere in the city in large groups at each
casino, demanding more money yet the casino
owners just carried on. This city was not nearly as
large, only about a tenth of what Los Vegas is, yet
in this city and near by the Lord showed me that
night into the morning that the spirit of death was
on the east coast of the United States stronger than
ever. And the Lord showed me that the spirit of the
Jaredites, the mob spirit was everywhere, even the
strikers demanding more money were in a mob
spirit.
We stopped in a certain casino called Haras, the
same owners it looked like as the ones in Reno and
Los Vegas. And the Lord blessed us that all the
casinos were full as we called the reservation
numbers but I walked in, Ben Johnson
accompanying me, I walked into the casino and
told him to try to get rooms there as I was to
witness that place and oh, it was terrible. I asked
the Lord to show me through his Spirit what the
people were like. There was loud rock music and
dancing wildly in certain parts of the casino.
Crowds of people at the slot machines and the
gambling tables, liquor drinking everywhere,
drunk people in the walk ways. And I felt the mob
Spirit would easily erupt among that people.
Knowing I was to stay in that place and yet the
Lord delivering us from staying in the casinos, by
phone we reserved rooms at a motel called
Comfort Inn and I went up there with my luggage,
the men helping carry our luggage. They were
smoking rooms and the Spirit of God warned me
strongly that a dedication prayer could not be
offered over that room and a spirit of death and
corruption was there. And though we had payed
for the rooms, expensive rooms as the tourists were
there in mass, the motels had raised their prices
that night, I said we couldn't stay there.
So I had them call the Marriott hotel number
and just ask if there was something in a nearby
place that had some rooms. And it was amazing,
there was a hotel the Marriott company had
remodeled, a 1914 hotel called a resort hotel that
was made for the rich and our motel rooms were
double the cost there as they were at the other
motels. And we went from all that corruption to a
rich place and we witnessed as we sat there waiting
for our rooms to be paid for the rich go in and out in
their limousines which are long rich cars that can
carry several people. We saw a wedding couple
and a wedding party go in and out. We went in a
side door, the brethren helping me in quietly so I
didn't go through the lobby ofthe hotel. By about
midnight we were in our motel room and it was
luxurious. It was amazing. I witnessed with
Naomie a few things in their advertisements and
such and always offering a dedication prayer, I
went through the heavenly session and the Lord
warned me strongly in dreams, visions through the
night.
I relate the dream here that I had at the Marriott
hotel, Galway New Jersey, the Lord gave me this
vision and dream where he showed me that in that
hotel not only were the sins of great immorality
committed but murder had been committed there
through the years and also the Lord showed me the
mob spirit, the gangs among rich and poor and how
as people would join together, other gangs and
mobs would come with greater wickedness and
just kill each otheLAnd the Lord had showed me
that He had protected us the night before and
through the night that if I had stayed among the
crowds of the wicked I would have been harmed
by them, we could have been killed by the mobs
there, the wicked there. And the Lord led us to be
among the rich to be protected, and yet the very
place among the rich the Lord had showed me that
murder had been committed and would be
committed there. And He had me come out ofthe
heavenly session early and flee that place. And He
named that I should go to New York City to the
financial center of the world and where the twin
towers were destroyed by the terrorists when they
flew the jets into it in 200 1 and I was to perform the
work of witnessing against this generation, kick
the dust of my feet off against the financial capitol
of the world and perform the ordinance of
delivering that place over to the jUdgments of God.
We left the hotel at Atlantic city and drove to the
sea coast in Atlantic city where I witnessed the
people and drove up and down the roads and oh as I
drove there, again, the Spirit testified of the spirit
of death and violence, the spirit of the Jaredites
being among that people. The strikers were
gathered in greater numbers. The mob spirit was
there. I again stood at the sea coast of the Atlantic
Ocean delivering that eastern coast by prayer and
ordinance over to the judgments of God, asking the
Lord to send the whirlwind judgments and sweep
the wicked off the land but preserve the righteous.
At 8:00 a.m. we left Atlantic City and drove
north through New Jersey and at 10:00 a.m. we
crossed over the bridge onto Staten Island into
New York City. And by 10:30 a.m., this being
Sunday, October 3, I marveled that I was among
the wicked on a Sunday. The Lord had taken me
away from all the Priesthood people. I did have the
brethren listen to some trainings on our travels that
we had recorded, but there I was among the wicked
on the Sabbath day witnessing against them. By
11 :00 a.m. I was there at the side of the world trade
center disaster. Naomie and I in our gentile
disguise got out of the car and I walked around the
financial district, the world financial center, what
they call the World Trade center where Wall Street
and the Stock Market is, the great money men have
their businesses, right on the sea coast witnessing
the people. Thousands of people were gathered
around this site, a major tourist attraction where
thousands come each day to witness what the
destruction of those buildings had caused.
I did buy two books with pictures depicting the
disaster and yet though I mourned over the loss of
the people, I yearned the Lord to hasten His time of
cleaning up that land. And several times while I
walked around the Financial Center of the world,
New York City, even raising my arm to the square
at one point, by the authority of the holy
Melchizedek Priesthood and the keys and powers
thereof, delivered over New York City and the
financial powers of this nation over to the
judgments of God to be swept off and destroyed
that their strongholds would be destroyed and the
Lord would complete that work. By twelve noon,
that work was done. I had the men come pick me
up. I witnessed people of every class, rich and
poor, many people from different countries as you
could hear their languages, different ways of dress
and undress. The day was cool so we wore our
coats and were able to be fully covered. Thank the
Lord.
Just before 1 :00 I left New York City entering
New Jersey through the underground tunnel. The
tunnels go under the water bodies from New York
City to New Jersey called Jersey City; goes under
the Hudson River and Bay that flows into the
ocean. From Staten Island, Manhattan is another
underground tunnel and so on. Also delivering
New York City as the center of the United Nations
and gathering of the nations over to the judgments
of God. That work was performed of the Lord.
We traveled through New Jersey and at 1 :45
entered Pennsylvania. By 3:30 in the afternoon we
entered Harrison, Pennsylvania, the capital city
there and I performed the work of kicking the dust
of my feet off as a witness against that capital city
and that state as I did every state we traveled
through in the authority of the Priesthood
delivering them over to the judgments of God. At
4:55 we entered Maryland, a small section of it and
at 5:05 we entered West Virginia and there at the
center of the land on the east coast, West Virginia,
stretching from Florida up to Maine, there in West
Virginia 1 had Isaac stop on a side road and I
walked into a forested area and there with Naomie
holding the recorder, holding both arms to the
square, and this being recorded, delivered the
United States and the east coast and that people
over to the judgments of God by ordinance and
kicking the dust off my feet off against them, and
the Spirit bearing record and Naomie as a witness.
We left and entered Virginia by 5:30 p.m. 1 called
Doctor Lloyd and also Uncle Merril to have
Doctor Lloyd Barlow move to R17. By 9:50 we
entered Tennessee. Then we arrived at Knoxville,
Tennessee along 181 connecting with 140 at 12:05
a.m. in the morning.
October 4,2004, Monday, having gone through
the heavenly session the Lord showed me that I
must get to Rl quickly. As we arrived in
Knoxville toward 11 :00 for an hour or so 1 went
into a heavenly session in the car, suffering of the
Spirit greatly and I was shown that 1 must handle
Wallace Jeffs as he does not hold Priesthood and 1
must do it immediately. So while traveling I called
the Bishop, the night of October 3, just before
midnight and told him to have he and his
counselors gather Wallace Jeffs by 8:00 the next
morning, gather him up, tell Wallace he does not
hold Priesthood, to write a letter of confession and
the letter must match what the Lord had shown the
Prophet, that Wallace and his wife Joanne and her
children were to leave Priesthood property and
repent from a distance and that his second wife,
Amy Nielsen should go with her children to live at
Wendell's house in Short Creek.
Again in the heavenly session I was shown that
the spirit of the Jaredites at the time of their
destruction is among the people of the United
States and there very easily and soon will be mob
rule in our land. In the presidential election this
year the spirit of anger and accusation is
everywhere trying to gain power and the people
are greatly divided as they were in the days of
Coriantumur and Shiz of the Jaredites. 1 was
shown the evil powers were upon us. We left
Knoxville having arisen early and we left
Knoxville, Tennessee by 8:45 a.m. and we traveled
eleven hundred, twenty-five miles or so that day,
Monday into Tuesday morning. Arriving in
Amarillo, Texas at 2:45 in the morning. And the
Lord truly blessed us.
At 2:50 in the afternoon Monday, we crossed
the Mississippi River going from Tennessee to
Arkansas witnessing that river again. On these
travels through the day 1 talked to the Bishop,
William Edson Jessop in Short Creek. He reported
that Wallace Jeffs had humbly received the
correction. 1 also gave the Bishop training on
loyalty to God and Priesthood and how men lose
Priesthood. I recorded one or two calls to the
ladies warning them about Wallace and Brian. 1
gave the Bishop a training, ifit is recorded, put it in
the record here. Gave a training on loyalty to God
and how men who take on a jealousy against the
Prophet over the Prophet's young wives actually
want to do away with the Prophet. And that is a
major crime committed in their hearts that causes
men to lose Priesthood and why they cannot be
trusted. It borders on being a traitor outwardly
against God and the Prophet. 1
talked to LeRoy Jeffs and the Bishop about me
going into financial hiding. 1 called John Wayman
Sunday to fly to Lubeck, Texas and arrive Monday
night in a rental car in Amarillo, Texas where 1
would meet him to sign the papers, the power of
attorney allowing LeRoy Jeffs to handle my
financial affairs with the banks and credit card and
creditor institutions. So 1 record here that in the
handling of Wallace Jeffs, the Saturday before, a
week ago the Saturday before, the Lord gave me a
special heavenly session naming that mother
Sharon, Mother Mary and Mother Kathie should
be removed from R17, having doubts and fears in
their character. And I even named to Mother
Sharon that her test would be to sacrifice Wallace
and Marsha in her feelings, warning her that
Wallace may not hold Priesthood. And then I was
given a special heavenly session traveling to have
Wallace removed and sent away. And he is one of
the master deceivers claiming to hold Priesthood
but does not hold Priesthood.
While traveling I called the ladies at each of
their places they are scattered in Short Creek and
warned them that Wallace Jeffs does not hold
Priesthood and beware of Brian Jeffs, though he
has been restored, his heart is not right, giving
them training on being loyal to God and Priesthood
and that they needed to be with me in every way to
survive. I called the Bishop and told him to tell
Anthony Jeffs, Wallace's son to stay in Short
Creek until further notice to help get the family
settled. At 7:15 we entered Oklahoma. At 12:40
a.m. into Tuesday, we entered Texas, arrived at
Amarillo at 2:45 a.m. For the few hours we were
there I went through the heavenly session, didn't
say much except that I was shown amazing things
of the Lord in what is about to happen. I did not
make direct contact with John Wayman, warned of
the Lord that I should not be in Amarillo, Texas
long I must get to Rl. So I had Ben Johnson
connect with John Wayman and bring the papers to
me. At 9:00 a.m. I had Ben Johnson and Isaac Jeffs
stand as witnesses as I signed certain letters. One
letter was all of the trustees of the UEP Trust
dismissing our lawyers. Another, a letter of me as
president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, dismissing the lawyers
and as the presiding Bishop in another letter,
dismissing the lawyers.
At 9:45 a.m. I got word through Isaac that
Jerold Williams was calling. In talking to Jerold
Williams at R23, David Harker Williams, his
stepson was overcome of the devil. David
Williams claimed that the Lord showed him to
drink poison, a chemical toilet cleaner, Lysol toilet
cleaner to help him get healthy. He has been
having many revelations and I saw that he was
overcome of the devil. I told Jerold, David is
dismissed from the mission to go back to Beryl,
report to Steven Harker. I finally had Jerold
himself drive David back to Short Creek where
Jerold could also visit Jerold's family. At 11:00
a.m. we left Amarillo Texas, entered New Mexico
at 12:20 p.m. We traveled to Albuquerque, did a
little shopping for the people at Rl, buying shoes
and other things. 7:40 p.m. entered Colorado and
at 8:45 arrived at Rl, home sweet home. I drove
immediately to Uncle Fred's house, visited with
him, told him the Lord approved of him. He signed
the letter to the lawyers that the trustees were
signing. I stopped up at Uncle Wendell's house,
visited with him a few minutes.
At 9:00 p.m. I arrived at the west house where
my family stays at Rl. Isaac and Ben arrived and I
handed them the original letter that all the trustees
of the United Effort Plan Trust signed and told him
to get that to LeRoy by morning. And thus ends
this mission of traveling among the wicked, having
traveled about eight thousand, three hundred miles
and as of now I have been in forty-two of the fifty
states of the United States of America. I directed
those with me as we were arriving that we no
longer call this the land of America, we call these
continents the land of Zion and think of all things
in terms of Zion now.
I visited with the ladies, ate a little, retired to my
room with Patricia and Naomie ready to dictate
and the Lord took me through a severe heavenly
session all night and I rejoice in the Lord for this
gift among us. I have been shown we will receive a
training here but the First Presidency is to prepare
to travel to R17 and be ready at any time to leave. I
have already called Isaac and Ben to be ready and
close by that we could travel. The Lord will say
when we will be protected.
This morning I got word that Jerold Williams
was in Beryl, Utah. David Harker Williams was
having troubles. When I called Jerold Williams I
found out David had gone insane, claiming
revelation, trying to turn his wife against
Priesthood, claiming that drinking the poison was
of God, and she was frantic. When I called Jerold
she, Marie Musser was sitting with Jerold as Jerold
was describing what had been happening. I simply
told Jerold that David Harker Williams does not
hold Priesthood. I talked to Marie and told her this
and that she was released and that Jerold should
drive her to live with her father in Short Creek,
David Musser. And I counseled Jerold to have
Stephen Harker take David Harker to Doctor Lehi
for medical help to get some medication until he
could get hold of himself. So the devil has tried to
thrust upon every land of refuge through different
individuals, through doubt and thus fear and
worry. David Harker Williams was fearful that he
wouldn't qualify to be a temple builder and he
became enthusiastic in trying to receive and
demand revelation of God. And you don't demand
God give you revelation, you be humble and your
heart open to conviction so that you are receptive
when the Lord wants to guide you. So, the Lord is
God and He will guide His work. I have been
praying on my way to Rl that this would be a time
of increased blessings and not of judgments that
the people here will be prepared. And the Lord
showed me that the people at Rl were very fervent
and He was sending me here to answer their
prayers. I pray the Lord to be near in private
connections as well as our public meeting and
grant people the increased knowledge and witness
of His presence and His power, seeking of the Lord
for these gifts to be among us in the name of Jesus
Christ, amen. End dictation for now.
2:00 p.m. General Meeting at Rl
President Warren S. Jeffs: My heart thrills
with great rejoicing in our Heavenly Father for the
privilege to meet with you, my brothers and sisters,
this beautiful day on this land of refuge named by
the Lord, preserved by Him, to be the headquarters
of the Church and Kingdom of God upon the earth,
and I am so grateful there are this many here at this
time. I put on the record counting five
Me1chizedek Priesthood bearers who live on this
land, eighteen ladies, and eight children.
The Lord does have a message for us, and I
voice to us very directly and strongly that the Lord
is ready to give us everything we are able to
receive and abide, and according to our faith and
having our devotion unto Him already in place that
we do believe and are ready to obey, so shall it be
in our lives. And it is time for this mission on this
land of refuge to move forward.
We will begin by singing page 148, "Jesus, the
Very Thought of Thee", turning our minds to our
Lord and Savior. I will ask Uncle Wendell to open
with prayer, arm to the square, dedicate this land to
be protected and the angels to be the watchmen at
this time while we are all meeting here.
Song: "Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee"
Prayer: President Wendell Nielsen
[Sacrament Administered]
President Warren S. Jeffs: Benjamin Jeffs will
bear his testimony and include the experience, in
summary, of Merilyn Nielsen's blessings of the
Lord, what she went through.
Elder Benjamin Jeffs: I seek for Heavenly
Father's Spirit to guide me at this time as I greatly
feel my weakness, and I yearn to be perfect in
fulfilling the call of our Prophet at this time and
always, for I rejoice in the testimony that Heavenly
Father has given me of him and the grand and
beautiful way that our Heavenly Father has loved
us in leaving a Prophet on earth to represent Him.
And in reading the words that have been printed in
the Priesthood books, one of the brethren of the
early days said, "If the Lord has all of the
inhabitants of the earth to choose from, He
wouldn't choose anybody but what He had perfect
confidence in," and that is my testimony, that
Uncle Warren is the most Christlike man on earth
in this day. I am thankful also for Uncle Wendell
and Uncle Fred and their perfect oneness with him.
I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here with
them and pray to not treat this opportunity lightly,
but to learn and grow and give my all to Heavenly
Father through His Prophet.
I am so grateful for the experiences that
Heavenly Father is bringing us through, each one
here, and I know that He sees what is best for us,
and He is reaching that we will reach to Him in the
fervency that we have been taught. In this
experience that Uncle Warren has asked me to
relate, I seek for Heavenly Father to refresh my
memory and guide me to do just what He would
want done.
It was the 14th of September. I was working, as
usual I was down here working and I got a phone
call on my phone, and it was Uncle Wendell, and
he said, "Come up here right away. Come see me
right away." So on my way up, I not quite knowing
what it was, but yet anxious to go and see him, I
went up and found out that Merilyn was going to
have a baby that day. She had previously had some
struggles with this baby and Heavenly Father had
stopped the problem at that point. I had been
privileged to be part of a blessing that Uncle
Wendell gave her at that time, previous to
September the 14
th
, and in that blessing there was a
phrase that struck me. As Uncle Wendell was
saying that blessing, in it he said, "In this
experience the Lord will give you what will be for
your best good," and I remember thinking to
myself, "I wonder what exactly that will be, what
that means."
So as I went up this day to see Uncle Wendell I
found out that Merilyn was going to be having a
baby and so we prepared. We got the people up to
Uncle Wendell's house, and it looked at first as
though things were going to be fine. So I brought
the people up and then I was just waiting, waiting
outside to hear how it went as it progressed. Then I
got word that things were starting to become
dangerous for her and the baby, that she was
starting to bleed a lot. So we made a phone call to
let Uncle Warren know what was happening, and
he sent the word back that she would be all right.
Then as things progressed it started to get worse,
and finally Uncle Wendell called me again and
said, "Let us see if we can get a hold of Uncle
Warren." Uncle Wendell had sent me around the
property asking for everyone to be very fervent as
we were in a very dangerous situation for Merilyn
and her baby. Then it became very critical. We
called and Uncle Warren sent the word to have her
transported. So as fast as we could we grabbed a
car, pulled the seats out, raced it up to Uncle
Wendell,' s loaded Merilyn in.
I am so grateful for the prayers of the Prophet,
for every step of the way Heavenly Father opened
the way that the car was here that could be used,
that the people were here. And Uncle Wendell and
Uncle Fred were there praying with all of their
hearts. As we loaded her in, I watched Heavenly
Father strengthen Uncle Wendell and those
present to see Merilyn go off to what we didn't
quite know would happen yet. She was very low.
She had lost much blood. So we loaded her in and
we raced out down the road.
I called Isaac and talked to him, let him know I
was on my way so he could tell Uncle Warren, and
we raced toward Cortez, as Uncle Wendell had felt
impressed. He had said, "Take her to the very
closest hospital you can." So as we went I called
the people and they decided they wanted to send an
ambulance to meet us, as I had said I was from out
of town and they didn't think I would know the
way there. So they sent an ambulance and we met
them right before Cortez. We jumped out and they
jumped out and wheeled a stretcher and put her on
and rushed her into the ambulance. Then I got in,
too, so that I could tell the information. The lady
was trying to get some blood, an IV going into
Merilyn. Previous to this Mother Sylvia had
started an IV and so there was an IV already in her.
She had lost so much blood that the nurse couldn't
get another IV. She said, "I can't get an IV in
here." So they raced her in and they ended up
using the IV that Mother Sylvia had put in. They
brought her into the emergency room and I stepped
out for a minute to get some papers going, and then
I went back in. During this time they had done an
ultrasound and such.
As we were driving along on the way there, I
had asked Mother Sylvia - we were contemplating
whether to take her to Farmington or Cortez. I
asked her what her condition was and she said,
"Well, I think the baby is dead, and we have got to
get this girl to the hospital quick." The ultrasound
showed that the baby had passed away. As I called
Uncle Warren I was working with my emotions,
yearning to do what Heavenly Father wanted, and I
told him, and he said, "Well, if the Lord wanted
that baby to live, it would be alive," which was a
great source of comfort. I thrill that Heavenly
Father so opened the way that Uncle Warren could
direct every step of the way.
After they had stabilized her some in the
emergency room, they brought her up for the baby
to be delivered. As I had gone into the emergency
room previous to this, I had wondered to her,
"Why aren't they giving you any blood?" She
didn't know and I didn't know, but then they took
her up to have the baby, and I could tell she was
weak and working very hard to have this baby. So I
called Uncle Warren and told him what her
condition was, and then soon after that that baby
was born.
As I waited outside the room they came and told
me the baby was born. Mother Sylvia and Mother
Rachel were there with her as it was. I kept
expecting that we were about through, that this
experience was about over. But then the doctor
that delivered the baby went into the hall opposite
from where I was sitting, and she was calling quite
frantically for some other doctor, as near as I could
tell, and she acted quite concerned. So I wondered
what was going on. Finally we found out that part
of the placenta had not come, and the doctor was
going to take her down to the operating room to see
what they could do. So I would call Uncle Warren
and he would say what to do. He said, "Yes, go
ahead. Tell them to do all they can to preserve her
ability to have children." So I told this to the
doctor, and they took her down. I waited upstairs
with Mother Sylvia and Mother Rachel, and the
doctor came back up and she said, "I am not able to
get out what I need to. There is a doctor in
Durango that knows a little more about this than I
do, so we want to Life Flight her there." So I called
Uncle Warren again and said, "What would you
like us to do?" He said, "Go ahead. Have them do
it. "
They told me I couldn't ride in the helicopter
with her. So we took off. Previous to leaving, the
doctors, both the one that had delivered the baby
and the other doctors, had been very touched of
Heavenly Father, very kind. They had, as far as I
understood, they had been as good as any doctors
we had ever seen in a situation like this.
So we left and she had started bleeding after
that baby was born, and she was so weak that they
decided they needed finally to get some blood in
her. So backtracking just a touch, I called Uncle
Warren and said she was very weak, passing in and
out. This was before she left on the LifefFight. He
said, "Well, tell them to get some blood in her." So
I talked to Mother Sylvia and they talked to the
nurses and they started to get some blood in her.
But the bleeding wasn't stopping and the doctor
couldn't get out what she needed to, so that is when
they decided to transport her. So we left and we
drove to Durango expecting them to be there
perhaps before us, but we ended up waiting there
for about an hour for them. I don't know what the
situation was, but the doctor later told me that
when Merilyn got there she was worse than she
thought.
As the Life Flight came in and they wheeled her
from there down to the operating room, I talked to
the doctor and I relayed the message of Uncle
Warren to do all they could for her to save her
ability to have children. So they stabilized her as
best they could and wheeled her into surgery. I
was calling Uncle Warren. He was giving
directives. I was pacing outside the surgery area
and about a whole hour went by. At this time I was
thinking, "Why should it be taking so long?" As I
was walking there the doctor came out very
concerned. She said, "I have done everything I can
to stop this bleeding and it is just not stopping."
She said, "It is as though a tap was turned on and I
can't stop this bleeding." So I called for Uncle
Warren as the lady wanted to go ahead with
another operation, and I couldn't get a hold of him.
So I asked the doctor, "Would you please give me
five minutes to see. I need to make a phone call."
So I was yearning with Heavenly Father to get a
hold of Uncle Warren. Finally, about ten minutes
later Uncle Warren called. I told him the situation
and he said, "Tell the doctors to do what they need
to do to save her life." So a nurse came out and we
told them that. They went ahead with the
operation. About another hour later the doctor
came out. She said it was done. She said that the
bleeding had finally stopped after this other
operation, and she said she was stabilized.
I called Uncle Warren, again working with my
feelings to understand and to recognize Heavenly
Father's hand in the experience. He said, "Keep
the faith. Heavenly Father can renew. Carryon."
So a little while later, about an hour later - it was
probably 1 :00 in the morning - the doctors
brought me back to the surgery recovery room, and
I was quite shocked at how she looked - very
swollen, hooked up to very many things. After I
had been there a little bit, I left and they took her up
to ICU. About 2:00, or somewhere in there, I was
allowed to go in to see her, and she was hooked up
to even more tubes. The doctor that was there, he
explained to me the situation, and he said that there
are people in situations like this who people live
through it. She is young, she is healthy, but she
could be several weeks getting over this. And he
informed me that there was a possibility that she
could pass away from it, from the shock her body
had gone through, as they had given her many
units of blood and many units of fluid.
We saw her that night, and they didn't allow us
to be there all night, so we waited outside in the
other room. The next day Uncle Warren had sent
Joshua and he came up there to spell us off, and so I
left. Uncle Warren had wondered ifhe could get in
to see her, and as I thought about that through the
day I hoped and prayed that he would. So I left and
Uncle Warren came later that evening, and I
returned the next morning after Uncle Warren had
come. I had the privilege to meet him here as he
came home from the hospital. He said he had been
up to see Merilyn . The next morning when I went
up to see her it was amazing how much better she
was doing. I think that was the day they took her
tubes out, wasn't it, the next day after Uncle
Warren came? I am trying to get my dates straight
here. But at any rate, when I came that next day,
she was doing so much better. The doctors were
now saying days instead of weeks for her recovery.
As time went on I watched Heavenly Father
perform a great miracle as He, through His
Prophet's prayers and Uncle Wendell's and Uncle
Fred's oneness with him, a miracle of having her
healed and blessed in this experience. She went in
Tuesday afternoon, and when she came out of
surgery the doctor told me to expect she could be
there for weeks, even with the chance that she
might not survive, yet she got better and better.
Uncle Warren would call every day and ask her
how she was doing. He would talk to her
personally. That Saturday he said to her on the
phone, "You will be out sooner than the doctors
think."
The doctors, by this time, thought that she
might have an opportunity to get out Monday, but
come Sunday morning I was there and Josh had
just come in. The doctor came in. Merilyn had
been doing so remarkably well that it was even
amazing to the doctors. One of them said, "It is
nothing short of a miracle, this side of a miracle
how well she has done," and that Sunday morning
they released her from the hospital, just exactly
like Uncle Warren had said, that she would be out
sooner than the doctors thought.
So I thank Heavenly Father for this experience,
for the Prophet's word at the start was that she
would be all right. And though the Lord took her to
death's door and took us all through an experience
to help us develop and learn fervency, Heavenly
Father's words through His Prophet were fulfilled.
I rejoice in the opportunity to be a part of this
experience and a part of this great work. The Lord
has said that not one word of His Prophets will fall
to the ground unheeded. I pray to be worthy to
continue on and be able to see and participate in the
great and beautiful blessings of Zion that Heavenly
Father has talked of through His Prophets for so
many generations.
I rejoice in Heavenly Father's kindness in
having Uncle Warren here, and I pray that I can
live worthy, looking at myself, of what Heavenly
Father is offering. I love Him. I love all of you,
and I pray that we can be one, a strength through
Heavenly Father to His work on earth and part of
the people that our Prophet is reaching for. I bear
this testimony and thank Heavenly Father for His
goodness to us, praying that I have done what
Uncle Warren has wanted, and I do it in the name
of Jesus Christ, amen.
President Warren S. Jeffs: We will now hear
the testimony of Joshua Jeffs and also relate what
experience he had in this.
Elder Joshua Jeffs: I, too, am very grateful to be
here, rejoice in the privilege, with all of you, to be
in the presence of our Prophet. I seek an increase
of Heavenly Father's Spirit at this time that He will
guide my thoughts and words, that they will be in
oneness with His servant, and also that He will
help take control of my emotions, that I can do this
in a way that would please Him.
I thank our Heavenly Father for the testimony
that He has given me of Priesthood and the
Keyholder of that Priesthood, and that He has
allowed me and each of us such a close
relationship with him, and I pray for His help that I
will not treat that lightly, for I know that this
Prophet will either be a witness for or against us,
and our eternity depends on it being for us, and that
is what we are all striving for, for the Lord's
approval shown through the approval of the
Prophet. I do testify that Heavenly Father's power
is in this man, and as I tell this story ofMerilyn, the
experience we went through, that you will feel and
see that truth.
I was at R 17 and I received a call from
Benjamin, and he told me that Merilyn was having
some troubles and that it looked like she would
have her baby that day and wondered if! could get
a message to Uncle Warren. He was going into a
meeting and I mentioned something to Isaac and
he had mentioned something to him as Uncle
Warren walked in, then I also handed him a note
with that message. He read the note and then sat
there for a minute. I could tell he was reaching of
what the Lord's will was. He handed the note
back. He didn't say anything. After the meeting I
got another call and it said it was getting worse, but
I wasn't able to get any message to Uncle Warren;
a little while later, received another call saying that
it was critically dangerous. We were able to get
that message to him, and from then on I didn't
know exactly what was going on. He had direct
contact with Benjamin.
He sent me this way and told me that I would be
coming to spend some time switching off with
Benjamin. On the way here I didn't really know
what to expect. My faith was that the Lord's will
would be done. I remembered the story that Uncle
Warren told of the Prophet Joseph praying for, I
believe it was his brother Samuel's wife, and after
fervently praying the Lord told him that she would
be all right and that she would be delivered of a
living child. So that was my faith, yet I was
yearning that the Lord's will be done. I didn't
know exactly what that will was, so I was just
yearning that the Prophet's prayers would be
answered.
As I was almost here - he had given me some
instructions to come here, bring some things, get
some rest and then go there. And he said that he
hoped he would have the opportunity to see her the
next day, but he told me to not say anything about
it. So as I came the next morning after she had had
the operation, he had told me what had happened. I
felt a peace as he told me, knowing that it was the
Lord's will, and though we didn't see all the
reasons why, He knew what was best for us.
The next day I was there all day. All day I had
been yearning and praying that Uncle Warren
would be able to come. As it came toward
evening, I just left because visiting hours were
over. They asked me to leave. As I got outside the
hospital Uncle Warren called. He had just arrived
and he wanted to go in and see her. So we went
back up there and had full faith that the Lord would
let us in even though it was against their policy.
Around 4:20 is when he got there. We went up and
waited outside the leu area. They were busy
doing things. I asked the head nurse, which
happened to be Merilyn's nurse that day, if he
would be able to come in and see her, and she said
she would be over there in a few minutes to talk to
us. They asked what his name was and he told
them that it was Warren. Then he said to me -
well, they wanted him to leave and wanted us to
leave and come back after shift change, and then
we could see her. But he said, "I have given my
name and if! have to go I can't come back." But
we waited out there in the hall. I could tell he was
praying. I could feel it. I could see it, and I was
trying to work with them so that they would let us
go in. But he told me to just be still and wait, that
we were there with her, and thus I could tell that he
was able to do what he was there to do even though
he wasn't right by her. I could feel Heavenly
Father's Spirit there increased because of his
presence.
Around 5:00 they let us go in. Visiting hours
weren't opened again till 7:00, but they let us in
anyway. As I walked in to where Merilyn was
laying, Uncle Warren was behind me, and I said to
her, "Uncle Warren is here," and I could see every
fiber of her being leap for joy. And as hers did, so
did mine, and I started shedding tears like I am
doing now.
The nurse watched me for a minute and asked
me if! was okay. I told her I was just so happy that
she let him in, and I could see that she was touched.
She heard him tell Merilyn that, he said, "God
bless you. He is blessing you." I noticed a change
on that nurse. She ended up leaving so that we
~ o u l d be to ourselves. After everyone was gone,
Just Uncle Warren and myself and Merilyn there,
he took both of her hands, he closed his eyes and
started praying for her, and I could see the light
shine on his face, and I could feel it and could see a
physical change on Merilyn. She wasn't able to
talk because of the tube in her mouth, but she
would kind of be able to lip the words she wanted
to say, or else she would write them. She told him
that now that he was there she would get better,
and I could feel the same.
After praying for a few minutes holding both
her hands, he put his left hand up on her head and
held her right hand with his right hand and
continued praying. I was watching both of them.
He had his eyes closed and then he opened them
and said to her, "The Lord will let me intervene for
you." At first she said, "I don't want you to." He
smiled and said, "Say, 'Yes, sir,'" to which she
did. He told her that she would recover quicker
than they thought.
They came in to change respirators while we
were there, and as they started to come in, then we
stepped out. She couldn't talk, but I could tell that
she was urgently trying to get a message across.
So I handed her a paper and she wrote, "Can't they
wait till he is gone?" and he told her that he would
still be there, that they could change it out. He was
there for a little while longer.
After they left he went back in and again put his
left hand on her forehead and held her right hand.
He was praying, and he looked up and said to her,
"F eel the peace." Then he took his left hand offher
forehead and presented it to me, which I took, and
he said, "You feel the peace." I can't explain the
peace that I felt, the surge of the Spirit of life that
was there, and I rejoiced that Heavenly Father
opened the way that he could come, because I
could plainly see that from that point on was when
she started to recover. He was there until 6:00. He
spent an hour with her, just shy of an hour, when
they asked us to leave so that they could do their
shift change. He had told her that she would be all
right, that she would quickly recover, that she
would surprise the doctors and be out sooner than
they thought. On the way out he repeated some of
those things to me, and all of it was fulfilled to the
very letter.
After that the recovery was very quick. Each
time I saw her there was a noticeable difference.
She soon had the tube out of her mouth and nose
and they took several of the IV's out. It just went
very fast from there. The doctor told me that
Merilyn had been knocking on death's door, or
rather she said, "Knocking on heaven's door." She
said, "When I first saw her she had no pulse in any
extremity." Within a day after Uncle Warren was
there she was well on her way to complete
recovery to where they hardly had anymore IV's
going into her, anymore fluid. She had had a
terrible cough and there was nothing showing of
any infection. So we were able to come back here
within those few days.
I rejoice that the Lord took us through this
experience. I am grateful that He allowed me to
witness the Prophet place the Spirit of life into a
person and allowed me to see what power the
Prophet has to the small degree that I can see it. I
rejoice in Uncle Warren, in the work that he is
performing, and I pray to live worthy to continue
to be whatever part of it I can. I know we have
great scenes to go through, because he has told us
so. And yet I also know that Heavenly Father will
give us the power to go through them as we reach
to Him and as we live what this Prophet and the
other Prophets teach us, and live as He shows us
how to live.
I have the testimony that he will lead a people to
the fulness of the redemption of Zion. It is up to
myself and each of us to qualify to be with him. I
thank Heavenly Father for yet giving us that
opportunity, that He is yet working with us, shown
by allowing us this meeting today, this time with
our Prophet. I thank Him for it and yearn to live
worthy of continuing to be a part of him, knowing
that he is a part ofthe Prophet Joseph and his plan,
that he is captaining the work that he started, that
that Prophet is guiding him, also that his father is
guiding him, and the other Prophets are at his
elbow protecting him, opening the way that he can
do whatever he is called upon to do.
I witness his humility, that he turns all good that
he does to our Heavenly Father. I yearn to do the
same. But I love to testify of him. I seek that you
can feel my testimony, that he is God to us because
of the Priesthood that he holds, the position that
God has called him to, and that our salvation is
hinged on our obedience to him, that through him
the Lord is offering us His own presence if we will
but reach out with fervency, and thus with oneness
perfect our characters through Heavenly Father's
grace and mercy and through His power shining in
us to come up to the mark that He is yearning that
we come to. I thank Heavenly Father for
continuing to work with me and with all of us.
I do love each of you. I love Uncle Wendell and
Uncle Fred and the way that they perfectly do our
Prophet's will. I rejoice that we have these
examples to look to, that we have a quorum that is
one. We, of all people, have the opportunity to see
oneness in action. I pray that Heavenly Father will
help each of us exert that oneness with Him
through His Keyholder, His Mouthpiece, and the
Fountainhead ofthe Holy Spirit to us. I rededicate
my all to the Lord through him. I want to thank our
Prophet for all that he does for us, and thus I am
thanking Heavenly Father. With rejoicing I submit
to His will, again rededicating my all in the name
of Jesus Christ, amen.
President Warren S. Jeffs: If any good is done
by anyone the Lord hath done it, for good is the
Spirit of God giving the increase. Praise be to the
Lord. We thank Heavenly Father for preserving
Merilyn's life, as the Lord showed me she yet had
a work to do, and she can be renewed. So let us
exert greater faith here for the Lord's message
through the First Presidency. We will ask Uncle
Fred to speak to us now.
President Fred M. Jessop: My dear brothers
and sisters, I have been so greatly edified here
today. I want you to know that I want the Lord's
will done. I want the Lord's words. I know that I
must give my all, which I feel like I have tried to
do. I can see, dear brothers and sisters, having
watched this work come into being for the last
quite a few years, and I verily believe that our
Heavenly Father, the great Originator of life and
salvation, of the Gospel, Heavenly Father's
Gospel He has given to His children on earth; and
having come here by the Spirit of revelation
wherein our Heavenly Father gave Brother Warren
our names, Wendell's name, and planted us here in
this place of refuge; and the more I have yielded
myself, studied, learned and prayed, the more I see
and believe with all my heart that our Heavenly
Father reached back among the Council of the
Gods and brought Brother Warren forth to be the
instrument, the manager of all the preparations
made at this last dispensation for the cleansing of
the earth, and for teaching and preparing a people,
I see, understand in part only, what a wonderful
task Uncle Warren has, finding the honest in heart,
teaching and training.
I say in passing that I certainly appreciate
Heavenly Father's revelation to Brother Warren,
and His revelation to us, myself and to Brother
Wendell, and transplanted us from a state of
emergency that we were in in Short Creek and
brought us to this place of refuge to take the
training to be better qualified to be Counselors to
dear Brother Warren in the quorum of First
Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ on the
earth today. This work looms up into my mind, our
minds, as I have learned to love and cooperate with
dear Brother Wendell. We have had a, in one sense
of the word, a very glorious time together with
some of our family members also established here
by revelation.
The reason, one of the reasons I better say, that I
feel so good about this wonderful opportunity is
that I gave my soul, my energies to Uncle Rulon, to
Uncle Roy before him, Uncle John before him. I
was totally committed to Uncle Rulon as far as my
feelings were concerned. Of course I had to grow
and develop and learn some things, but that is the
way I feel. I felt it, I enjoyed it, I treasured it in the
days of Uncle Rulon, and I went right on. As far as
I am concerned I went right on when dear Uncle
Rulon took his journey into obscurity and left the
responsibility on Brother Warren. I see, and I
surely enjoy seeing how the Lord has favored
Brother Warren, has made him what he is.
We have learned to love the Lord most. We
have learned to love Brother Warren. How we
have prayed, having been called to pray to the
Lord, this mission given us by Brother Warren that
we pray to the Lord that He will safeguard Brother
Warren's life. And it has been revealed to us that
we have rejoiced in the revelation that the Lord
gave to Brother Warren that He made it known to
us that the Lord said He would protect Brother
Warren. And we know that the assassins and his
enemies want him out of the way. This work, the
Lord's work, the redemption of Zion requires, in
my way oflooking at it, requires Brother Warren to
manage the progression, the great responsibilities
to make the preparations for establishing and
redeeming Zion, and establishing Zion on earth.
We have learned to love Brother Wendell. We
have had a grand experience working, praying
together, learning how to be more fervent,
studying the Gospel, taking the training, hearing
Brother Warren's dissertations on the Gospel and
understanding the Gospel and how it affects
human behavior. It is a grand, grand, grand
opportunity.
Now we know, now we know that Brother
Warren holds the keys, all the keys of the
Priesthood, of the Celestial Kingdom, of mortal
man on earth today, the greatest man. We have
learned more about what love means as we have
learned about it and learned to use it, learned to
enjoy it, learned to extend it. You might say we
have been here doing nothing. Not so. We have
been very busy. We thank the Lord, thank our
Heavenly Father. He owns this earth. He brought
Brother Warren forth from the Council of Gods
before this world was formed, brought him forth to
this last dispensation, and now he holds the keys of
the judgments and of the redemption efforts. He
has such a load, comparatively not nearly enough
help for the great responsibility, and as incapable
and as unworthy as we are, we rejoice in being
associated with Brother Warren in the quorum of
First Presidency, and we want to become more
valuable for helping him.
Now as I learned that we were going to have a
meeting, I searched my mind. What was I going to
say? What could I say? Well, I don't need to
congratulate myself that I am willing to forgive all
men. I have needed to do that all along, and all the
other things. I need to be meek and lowly. I want to
be. I want to live by inspiration and revelation. I
want to be in such a way that the Lord and Uncle
Warren can discover in me, in us, that the course
we are pursuing be according to their concept of
propriety in this great Gospel.
Dear people, it has been such a pleasure, such
an encouragement for us to realize that we regard
everybody on this place of refuge. We love them
unconditionally. That is fixed in our hearts and
minds. And we pray for the time when our
families not with us can be gathered in the time of
the Lord - Brother Warren's families, wherever
they are, Brother Wendell's family left in Short
Creek, our family left in Short Creek, ten
companions left there, yearning, praying, striving
to become worthy. And look at the great work that
hangs on Uncle Warren, the Lord's holy Prophet.
It seems like he has got many times the
responsibility in comparison with the ability he has
command of to make provision for the gathering
and the establishment of Zion on earth.
I pray the Lord to bless me to grow up before I
get too old. I want to be on board. I want to be in
the ranks along with Brother Wendell and
whomsoever Uncle Warren directs and we just go
right along.
Dear people, we love you. We are learning
what love, a burning, what love the Lord means,
what love to Brother Warren means. We hope to
enjoy the love of Heavenly Father to us and that the
opportunity will come, the Lord being our Helper,
and we can be gathered in this earth cleaned off for
those people the Lord has hidden away to come
forth in the last days.
God bless dear Brother Warren. God bless
these sentinels, these good brethren that have been
so helpful and faithful. It is a joy to think about it
when you receive their ... [????1:39:37???] .. .1 say
the same to all of you dear ladies, wonderful
blessed people. I ask the Lord to forgive me my
inabilities, but He can read my heart. ????I am not
happy, 1 am not proud, everything that He
might find, but 1 pray for the gift and power of
repentance and the kindness and mercy
through our Heavenly Father and His great
capacity to forgive sins. I pray for it.
I pray for Brother Warren's safety, that his
enemies shall not discover him ever. Let their
plans fizzle and fall. And if they have it in their
hearts to repent, may they do so. Otherwise, may
they be prevented from doing what they think they
can do, which is wrong. God forbid. God bless
you all, ???me included???, I pray in the name of
Jesus Christ, amen.
President Wendell Nielsen: I surely appreciate
the marvelous Spirit that is here today. I rejoice to
be here with you on this place of refuge, pray that
Heavenly Father will continue with us and that His
marvelous and Holy Spirit will flow to us greater
and greater day by day. There has been so many
things go through my mind as I was sitting here.
An experience that I had that is very precious to me
came to mind that I have never told anyone,
because it needs the Prophet's approval to tell. As
I asked him, he said it would be okay to tell this
story, this experience, a beautiful experience for
me.
As you people remember, I think on August
13
th
, when Uncle Warren was speaking, we
listened to the meeting, and as he was saying the
closing prayer, if you remember, the Lord took
him, while he was saying the closing prayer, into a
session, and we heard some of it on the tape. After
he closed the prayer he laid down on the floor right
there by the podium. I helped him as he went down
on the floor, laid down on the floor. He was laying
there for a few minutes and he asked me to put my
hand on his forehead and on his hand and see what
I could feel. I know what you felt, Josh.
After a few minutes he asked some of his ladies
to help him. I remember Mother Naomie was
there. I think Mother Ida was there. These ladies
helped him towards his home, and while we were
there the congregation had left. I don't know quite
how to explain it, but what I felt was, I felt several
men, brethren that were there. I didn't see them but
I felt people there, and I felt a feeling that I
couldn't describe, and as I have pondered upon it
to try to explain it, the thing that comes to my mind
is the source of the Spirit of God was there.
So as they were helping Uncle Warren from the
meeting house to his home, to those of you who
have never been there it is about maybe a hundred
feet or two hundred feet separation with a sidewalk
that goes up. The stairway that goes into his home
comes up from both sides and then goes as one to
his front door. Uncle Fred and I were there when
they took Uncle Warren, helped him towards his
house. He laid down on the steps. Uncle Fred and
I were outside the door of the meeting house. I got
a chair for Uncle Fred and Uncle Fred was sitting
in the chair and I was standing by him and one of
the ladies came down and said, "Uncle Wendell,
Uncle Warren wants to talk to you." He was laying
on the steps. I turned around to run up there and
over the two steps coming down, about halfway to
the meeting house I could see these golden tongues
of fire. As I looked there I could see the fire
centered around Uncle Warren, and those ladies
were right with him. It went over both ofthe steps,
came maybe halfway to the meeting house. As I
turned around and went up there to see what he
wanted, something said to me, "You can't go in
that fire." And I remember saying to myself, "I
can," because that fire was happiness, someway. I
ran into that fire and it was so thrilling, so happy.
When that something said, "You can't go in there
because you will get burned," I never even
considered that I couldn't go in there, but I ran in
the midst of it up to the steps where he was lying
and he said, "Go get Uncle Fred and kneel down
and ask the Lord to give me strength to get into my
house." I went back. We knelt right on the
sidewalk with our arms to the square and asked
Heavenly Father to help Uncle Warren get into his
house. So that gave me a testimony of Uncle
Warren and a feeling, a thought, "What manner of
man is this that is our holy Prophet?"
As far as this experience of Merilyn's, just to
give you my side of it very briefly, we could see
that it just wasn't working out here with her. So I
said to Mother Sylvia, I said, "Mother Sylvia, we
are going to try and get in touch with Uncle
Warren. What is the condition I tell him?" She
said, "Tell him she is in critical danger." I knew
then that something had to be done. So when
Uncle Warren called and said, "Transport her," we
moved fast, because I knew that was what it was
going to take. I told Ben to go to Cortez as fast as
he could, that he wouldn't get a ticket. I think he
did.
But the experience of me being informed of her
without being able to be there, Uncle Warren was
informed by Ben, Uncle Warren called here and
then they sent a tape up, a disk up with Uncle
Warren's message to me. I think there was three
disks. By this time when she went, we knew she
was in serious trouble. So we were very fervent in
praying.
The first message came in that said that the
baby was dead when it was born. Uncle Warren
indicated that it looks like they have her somewhat
stabilized. So to me it was a very good experience,
because I said, "Heavenly Father, thy will be done,
and ifthis is how you wanted this situation to work
out, I am glad to bow to your will."
I took that pretty good. I thought, "With
Heavenly Father's help I guess everything will be
okay." But then another phone call came. The
other phone call Uncle Warren informed me they
were going to fly her to Durango because they
couldn't stop the bleeding. That was why there
was some material left in there when they did the
D&C and they were going to rush her to Durango.
They were considering hysterectomy. So that was
about the substance of that phone call. Now there
was another experience. I was thinking to myself,
"This is starting to get close to my heartstrings,"
because she was so young and so desirous. So I
wait, and on figuring it out, I have had ladies have
D&C's before and so I am thinking, "There should
have been a call come by now. There should have
been a call come." It went probably two or three
hours, and so I am saying to myself, "Heavenly
Father, I am learning here. Heavenly Father, thy
will be done. This will be harder to bear if she has
to have a hysterectomy." So the call came in that
this was done. It began to take hold of my
heartstrings.
So I lay there on my bed - it was getting late -
and a call came from down here that said, "Uncle
Warren has another message." So I am thinking
now, "Am I prepared to lose her?" And only once
or maybe twice in my life has my heartstrings been
tugged like they were then. I remember so vividly
the heart rejoiced while the eyes wept bitterly. So I
thought, "This is a good experience to have."
So as I was laying on my bed another call came
in. It was a call from Uncle Warren. Melanie had
it. So when she came in I said, "Wait a minute,
Melanie. I don't know if I want to hear this or not
right now." I said, "Let me build a little strength
here." So she hesitated a few minutes and I said ,
"Okay. Put it on." You can imagine my feelings. I
was laying there on the bed and with all of my heart
I was saying, "Heavenly Father, give me strength
to accept your will," because I was really being
tugged in my heart. Uncle Warren came on the
phone. I was laying there as prepared as I could be.
He said something like this: "Uncle Wendell, they
did all they could for Merilyn." So I quickly said,
"Heavenly Father, thy will be done. Give me
strength to accept it." Then he told how they had
completed the surgery, how she had been taken
into intensive care, and was in there recovering.
And I thought to myself, "Well, the Lord has
granted me her for the moment." I know that in
intensive care, condition like that, that because she
was in intensive care didn't mean that she was
going to live. So she was very critical in there.
Another verbal phone call came at ! :00 in the
morning that Melanie took. I was laying on the
bed. I thought, "I call tell by the sound of her voice
what this call is." She sounded quite normal, so I
knew it wasn't anything too serious, and it was that
she was taken from recovery into intensive care. I
was very, very concerned until I found out that
Uncle Warren had went there, then being with
Uncle Rulon on occasion, I knew this Spirit oflife.
When they told me what Uncle Warren had done I
was greatly relieved, because I knew then and had
the faith that she would be okay.
So after a few days we got her home, she
recovered well, as she is doing now. And when
they brought her home, Heavenly Father
whispered to me, He said, "I have given her to you
twice." So we are most happy that Heavenly
Father's will has been done and that He has spared
her life for an important purpose in Him.
Sorry. This has beenjust a little emotional. But
before I sit down, brothers and sisters, I want to say
I am beginning to see what Uncle Warren needs in
a people. He has such great responsibility, he
needs friends. Friends are people that support him
and obey him. What are the friends that Uncle
Warren needs? He needs friends that are full of the
Holy Ghost, that have perfected the love of the
Father in their hearts, that, as he said the other day,
that are filled with fire. Remember we talking in
class. I said, "Uncle Warren said the people on this
place of refuge now should be filled with fire," like
he had us read on Helaman Chapter 5.
So dear brothers and sisters, if we are going to
accomplish those things, we have to become
perfect in Heavenly Father's guidance in our lives,
and this is that constant fervency of devotion to
Heavenly Father, rejoicing in Him, having Him
guide us in everything in our lives. Then we
become people that are really Uncle Warren's
friends. Then he can use us. He needs us. He
needs help. I don't think Heavenly Father intended
for him to do it alone, but he will if he has to. We
have the opportunity, if we are willing to let our
old fallen character go, we have the opportunity to
be a great help and strength to Uncle Warren as he
accomplishes this enormous work that is upon his
shoulders.
So we have talked many times about this. And
Uncle Warren, in our classes, I can tell you, and in
our prayers, we have talked that when Uncle
Warren comes again to this place of refuge, when
the Lord has a message again through Uncle
Warren, we will not only believe before Uncle
Warren delivers a message, but we will rejoice as
though he has already delivered it. We will believe
the message and we will rejoice in the message
even before it is given, and show Heavenly Father
thereby that we yearn to draw from Him in the
heavens, through our holy Prophet, what we need
and what He wants to give us. I think, Uncle
Warren, that that is where we are as we sit here
today. So we are so anxious, so grateful that you
are here and are so anxious for the Lord to teach us
through you. In a way I think we can say we are
ready to go now. So God bless you, dear Uncle
Warren, and we rely upon you to teach us what we
need to do to qualify for our Heavenly Father's
presence. We look to you to take us there. And
God bless and be with you as you do His great will
here on this earth. These are the things we are
looking for in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
President Warren S. Jeffs: I seek unto our
Heavenly Father with a prayer of rejoicing in Him
for His Spirit to guide my thoughts and remarks as
I have yearned unto the Lord that this mission in
this center place of refuge in the work of
redeeming Zion will be fulfilled. I thank our
Heavenly Father for His kind love and mercy to me
and all of us, and I acknowledge Him in preserving
our lives.
I bring this testimony this day to you that I
know God lives, that the Father and the Son
appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith the spring of
1820, and that great Prophet Joseph Smith became
the Witness and Testator to all mankind and he
sealed his testimony with his blood. I bear witness
of the Prophets that carried on his mission and
work and that my father is the legal successor to
the Prophet Joseph Smith guided by Uncle Roy, by
the Prophet Joseph and the other Prophets. I have a
testimony that my father knew God and knows
God, and he was shown greater things than he was
allowed to reveal. And I am here to do the will of
my father, and thus Heavenly Father. I bear
witness that God is near and the Prophets are near,
and the Lord is guiding this work. I also bear
witness to you that the Lord God, the Creator of
heaven and earth, knows each one of you.
To show you one little piece of truth, the
morning of Merilyn's experience, before anything
was known, before anything happened, the Lord
gave me Uncle Wendell's name and said, "Brother
Wendell will be healed," he having a dangerous
high blood pressure. Then the Lord said to me,
"And Merilyn will be all right." Before any of this
was known of these experiences we have heard,
the Lord gave me this assurance, but as the Lord
requires of us, it took great faith to accomplish His
will. I carried that assurance of His mind and will
concerning her throughout the whole experience.
The Lord knows you. He knew this dear sister
and He revealed that though we had to exert great
faith for His word to be fulfilled, she yet had a
work to do in this mission. This experience is a
witness from God of the degree of fervency
required for the redemption of Zion, for our
fervency of prayer was a matter of her very life.
We all said, "Thy will be done," and yet there was
a peace through the whole experience. Listen to
how great our Heavenly Father is:
D.& C. 76
1. Hear, 0 ye heavens, and give ear, 0 earth,
and rejoice ye inhabitants thereof, for the Lord is
God, and beside him there is no Savior.
2. Great is his wisdom, marvelous are his ways,
and the extent of his doings none can find out.
3. His purposes fail not, neither are there any
who can stay his hand.
4. From eternity to eternity he is the same, and
his years never fail.
What does this great eternal Being, our loving
Heavenly Father, promise His obedient children?
5. For thus saith the Lord - I, the Lord, am
merciful and gracious unto those who fear me, and
delight to honor those who serve me In
righteousness and in truth unto the end.
6. Great shall be their reward
The obedient.
6 .... and eternal shall be their glory.
7. And to them will I reveal all mysteries, yea,
all the hidden mysteries of my kingdom from days
of old, and for ages to come, will I make known
unto them the good pleasure of my will concerning
all things pertaining to my kingdom.
8. Yea, even the wonders of eternity shall they
know, and things to come will I show them, even
the things of many generations.
9. And their wisdom shall be great, and their
understanding reach to heaven; and before them
the wisdom of the wise shall perish, and the
understanding of the prudent shall come to naught.
10. For by my Spirit will I enlighten them, and
by my power will I make known unto them the
secrets of my will - yea, even those things which
eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor yet entered into
the heart of man.
F or the great promises of God to be
accomplished on earth there must be perfect faith
exerted among a prepared people unto God, and
there must be a people ready to receive the
promised blessings. So dear brothers and sisters,
what are you able to contain today? What are you
able to receive and honor in perfect obedience and
oneness with the will of God? That is what the
Lord is ready to bestow upon us.
In my yearnings on the way here yesterday, I
pled with the Lord that this time it would not have
to be another judgment, that it would be blessings,
blessings earned, preparing us for greater light,
knowledge, and blessings. And this is what the
Lord has shown me. Every time I have returned to
this land it has been correction after correction,
reproof after reproof, and some sent away. But I
thank the Lord what He showed me today, that all
present on this land have been diligent unto the
Lord and the light of heaven has increased in all of
you, and my heart thrills and rejoices that it is so,
and this by His grace and mercy and because of our
continued fervency. The Lord has revealed that
ordinance can be given, advancement can be
made, and at this time none must be sent away. All
can succeed in the Lord through Priesthood.
I say again, thank God that there is an increase
ofthe Spirit of God among this group of people on
this land of refuge. But all is not done yet. Zion's
Camp is still under condemnation and there are
traitors among Zion's Camp who live elsewhere
that the Lord will handle. And the Lord in His
mercy protected the First Presidency, revealing we
should not travel yet as our enemies knew of our
going to the Texas Stake of Zion.
Dear brothers and sisters, the whirlwind
judgments of God are not generations away. They
will happen soon. The Lord has directed me to
pray night and day, and to call on these, my
brethren, to pray night and day continually for the
whirlwind judgments to come upon the wicked
who dwell on this land of Zion, that Zion can be
established and that the strongholds of our enemies
will be thrown down, and that the Lord will now
choose from among His Zion's Camp those
prepared to advance.
And so I bring this message of joy and gladness
that the Lord is pleased with this group of people
and the sacrifices made and obedience rendered.
He is willing to bless us with greater knowledge,
experience, and witnesses if we will but exert
ourselves as a matter of our very survival. And
what is to withhold Him from coming to this very
room at this time and give us witness and
experience greater than we have known if we
would just exert ourselves for His will to be made
manifest? And it is His will that we prepare
individually for our holy anointings, an ordinance
where an individual receives the anointing of oil
upon their head and they are declared clean every
whit, pure in heart, and then the Keyholder
confirms that anointing and those blessings. And
as you are filled with the Holy Ghost, according to
the Lord's will and your preparation in place, you
can witness greater testimony and evidence of the
glory of God and feel it flow into your being, and
this will be a preparation for you to receive your
temple endowments and earn the presence of God
personally.
Some here still need to humble themselves
further to receive the advanced ordinances and not
think that because you are on this mission all is
well, and others are prepared to receive further
ordinances as the Lord shall appoint. And we are
all a member of the need-to-be-more-humble
people. I need more of the Spirit of God. I need to
humble myself further for the Lord to accomplish
His work and His promises.
The First Presidency will travel soon to R17 and
participate in ordinance work there. The Lord will
name when we will be protected, and according to
our faith and fervency of faith so shall it be. And
we will need you who remain on this land to exert a
faith that our lives will be spared and protected and
the enemy kept back.
The Lord directs me through His Spirit to close
this meeting and meet with the First Presidency,
and then the First Presidency will attend to a few
ordinances. We ask you to sit quietly and pray for
us in the next rooms or downstairs or in your rooms
upstairs, and join your faith with ours that the
Lord's will is made manifest. I thank the Lord for
this blessing and privilege. He has shown me
certain ordinances should be done more privately
lest individuals are tempted to boast in the eyes of
others, and to keep humble and sacred what the
Lord gives.
I bear this testimony and give His message that
He is pleased with us. We still have a ways to go,
more ordinances and knowledge to earn. The Lord
is near, and He will favor every one of you as you
prepare. I deliver this message in the name of
Jesus Christ, amen.
I will close with prayer.
Prayer: 0 God, the Eternal Father, we come
before you at the end of this meeting thanking you
for favoring us with these testimonies and your
Spirit touching our hearts. We feel to rejoice in
you in sparing our lives and in offering the
blessings of the fulness of Zion, and that
ordinances can be given. Thank you for the holy
Sacrament we have received, having renewed all
our former covenants, reaching for the increase of
your Spirit. And as you shall appoint today and in
the near future that individuals should receIve
greater trainings and ordinances, in the authority of
the holy Me1chizedek Priesthood, we dedicate this
room and this home to be a sacred place on earth
that ordinances can be performed. We yearn to
receive of your Spirit the witness of the burning
peace as we receive your blessings.
We cry unto thee for deliverance from this
wicked generation. We know you are about to
scourge your people for being slow in their
preparation, and thank you, Father, for your
promise that there will be a people raised up to
redeem Zion through your power.
Now be with this group of people. Favor them
with the heavenly powers. Behold their fervency
has become great, and your Spirit testifies that
there is a people being raised up to receive your
blessings. We seek to humble ourselves further
that we may feel your heavenly power and
presence as you will; and hold not back, Father,
and give the increase, at least individually as they
prepare, and as a group of people who are
prepared. All glory to thee.
Thank you for the miracle of preserving us on
this land, for blinding the eyes of government
officials. Thank for the miracle of preserving
Merilyn Nielsen's life. Thank you for the miracle
of renewing Uncle Fred and strengthening him,
and renewing and strengthening Uncle Wendell.
Thank you for providing for us all we have and are.
Thank you for the promise of your presence among
us. Thank you for being here through the night and
being near continually. We love you and rejoice in
you and are here to do your will, and make this
renewed commitment and dedication unto thee, 0
Lord our God, that we are yours through
Priesthood, through your mercy and grace. Give
us the experiences, blessings, and knowledge
needed to come into your presence, and hold not
back, and send your heavenly fire upon this group
of people and preserve this land from our enemies.
Allow the First Presidency to go forth and fulfill
their mission. You have allowed us the test of
being in bondage, having to stay in our homes.
You have allowed many tests to come upon us, and
we thank you, Father, and feel it a privilege to
endure for thy name's sake. Now open the way for
the fulness of Zion to be established, and name
individuals to receive their blessings. We know
you can do this, Father, and say this by the
authority of the holy Priesthood, reaching for your
will to be done, and in the name of Jesus Christ,
amen.
Rejoice if each other are blessed. If the Lord
has you wait for a time, rejoice that privilege to
earn the blessings that are within your reach. Keep
sacred and private the ordinances and promises
you are given, and do not inquire of each other,
asking them to break their confidences. Pray
fervently that the Lord and His powers will be near
as the First Presidency meets right now. I will ask
this group of people to go to other areas of the
home; ask Benjamin and Joshua to go and guard
the property at this time. I will talk with you
brethren later concerning what the Lord has for
you. Thank you.
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
4:42 p.m. Meeting of the First Presidency atRl
[Performed some ordinances first.]
Naomie you will need to be a scribe in here.
You will come in.
Mother Merilyn wasn't there when we did this
setting apart as temple builders was she? Have her
come in first.
I have other things to go over with you but if
you feel up to it we will take care of this first.
The love of God sealed in a person's mind and
heart by the keys of Priesthood is an ordinance to
prepare them to become more fully acquainted
with the all-consuming heavenly fire. Through the
ordinances of the Priesthood the power of God is
made manifest. To show you how carefully the
Lord guards these ordinances: About one month
before Allen Steed was handled, I felt that here was
a sweet man who always kept sweet. And I asked
him to stay after a meeting at R17, just he and I in
the room. I had him sit. I put my hands on his
shoulders to feel his spirit and asked the Lord,
"Should I give this man this ordinance?" thinking
here was a sweet man. And the Spirit strongly
warned me: "Do not do this thing." I did not tell
him what was about to happen, I simply said, "The
Lord tells me you have more preparation to make
before you can receive further ordinances and
blessings." So the Lord is the one that performs all
ordinances and He guides what should be done.
Your wife Rachel Jeffs Nielsen has received
that ordinance during an administration. I don't
know she is aware fully.
Uncle Wendell: Can I talk to her about that?
Sit right there Mother Merilyn and Nomie over
there. You have received the blessing of the love
of God sealed in your mind and heart. The Lord
tells me you should receive the mission call to be a
temple builder and a temple worker which will
prepare you to go into a holy place and receive
your holy anointings. And you will travel to R17
with us if you will prepare yourself. That
ordinance of receiving the holy anointings is to be
given at R17. The First Presidency will take care
of this other here and now - if you are willing?
Mother Merilyn: I am grateful.
The Lord gave me a special revelation about a
week ago concerning you. He showed me that our
path would take us up as though over a high
mountain, dangerous cliffs on every side. As I
walked this path, there was Mother Merilyn with
her cane walking and stepping up over the rocks
and down, up and down, sweetly, patiently
walking the path the Lord required, and that you
pleased Him. So the Lord is very pleased with
your sacrifice.
Mother Merilyn: I don't feel like I have made
any.
And your labors. I warn you to have your
heartstrings tied to the Lord our God and
Priesthood. The Lord has warned me about
Mother Sharon. I have had to send her away. So I
hope that your emotions can be in order
concerning her. All isn't lost for Mother Sharon,
but she has been warned strongly that her
sympathy for her son could cause her to lose her
place. And I have handled Wallace Jeffs. The
Lord revealed he didn't hold Priesthood. Your
daughter Amy is living at your house in Short
Creek and awaits the Lord's appointment for her.
But Wallace and his wife Joanne and Joanne's
children are sent away from Short Creek to repent
from a distance.
All ordinances are blessings to earn blessings.
They are blessings given to earn an increase of the
Spirit of God and give us faith in our prayers that
we have had these promises and through
faithfulness and obedience the Lord can fulfill.
If you brethren will assist me. Uncle Fred
should we have you lean against something?
Could you stand for this one ordinance?
Uncle Fred: I think so.
Mother Merilyn.
Prayer:
Our dear faithful Mother and sister, Merilyn
Steed Jeffs, we the quorum ofthe First Presidency
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
unitedly lay our hands upon your head by the
revelations of the will of God to fulfill His
purposes and promise and in the authority of the
holy Melchizedek Priesthood which we bear and
in oneness with the Priesthood in the heavens, we
set you apart on the mission to be a temple builder
and bestow upon you every gift, right, blessing,
and intelligence needed to be a strength and help in
whatever skills you are called on to perform, with
the strength of heaven in that mission. And in the
authority of the holy Priesthood, we also set you
apart on the mission to be a temple worker to go
into the sacred places by Priesthood appointment
and participate in holy ordinances and earn the
greater knowledge of God. And as you continue
faithful the Lord gives you this promise that you
will see God and you will see father and you will
know them by introduction, and you will feel the
heavenly agents near from this time forth guarding
your life and your path as you apply in faith unto
the Lord. And all this according to your faith so
shall it be. By the keys and powers of Priesthood
in the authority of the holy Priesthood we place a
seal of protection upon you that your life will be
preserved as the evil powers will seek your
destruction. Be not of little faith. Know that the
Lord loves you and Father our Prophet is often
near you and rejoices in your faithfulness thus far.
Your faith is needed to help the work of God
advance as well as many others that will be called.
And all glory to God as we pronounce this blessing
according to His will and power by the authority of
the Priesthood and in the name of Jesus Christ,
amen.
We love you.
Uncle Wendell: God bless you Mother Merilyn.
Mother Merilyn: Thank you.
We love you. May I do this?
Go get Uncle Fred's wife Aunt Eva.
I sure love you dear brethren and rejoice in your
faithfulness. The Lord wants His work advanced
and we earn the higher ordinances in the
Priesthood and the temple. The Lord has told me
the temple will be built. And he has told me he will
choose individuals if all of Zion's camp will not
qualify.
Uncle Fred, you approve of this your wife and
give a recommend for her?
Uncle Fred: Yes. Very sweet.
The Lord names to me to perform an ordinance
to seal the love of God in you to prepare you for
greater ordinances if you will receive it?
Aunt Eva: ???
Have a seat right here then. I will do this myself
brethren. Add your faith though. Your full name?
What is your full name please?
Aunt Eva: I don't know. Eva Johnson Jessop.
Okay. Repeat the words in your mind as a
prayer and you will feel the peace.
Prayer:
Our dear faithful sister, Eva Johnson Jessop, in
the presence of your husband and by the
appointment of the Lord our God, the Lord
approving of your labors, and sacrifice and
faithfulness thus far. We lay our hands upon your
head and in the authority of the holy Me1chizedek
Priesthood which we bear and in oneness with the
Priesthood in the heavens and by the keys and
powers of that holy Priesthood, we seal the love of
God in your mind and heart as a daily increase to
flow into you as a power to purify you and make
you more fully acquainted with the heavenly fire
and prepare you for further ordinances. And from
this time forth, dear sister, you will feel the flow of
heavenly fire and bursts of thought and revelation
from God, and ideas you have not realized before,
and you will feel the heavenly agents and angels
with a greater sensitivety to prepare you to know
God through Priesthood, through great ordinances.
And according to your continued faith and
faithfulness so shall it be. And as a witness to you
that this is of the Lord, we say to you: Be ye filled
with the Holy Ghost as a burning peace in your
mind and heart even as these words are spoken and
know the Lord is near and He approves of you thus
far. Be one with your husband as unto the Lord.
Love one another. And now you shall be
empowered with a greater degree and power to
love others to rejoice that the Lord loves all. Dear
sister, receive this blessing and you shall progress
faster than ever. And you shall have dreams and
visions and witnesses greater than you have known
through your humility and faith. Prepare dear
sister and you will be a strength to the cause of
Zion. We pronounce this according to the Lord's
will and your faith as a father's blessing upon you
and in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
God bless you, dear sister.
Uncle Wendell's wife Merilyn.
We love you. God bless you. You feel the
peace?
Aunt Eva: Yes, sir, it is beautiful.
Because this ordinance is a sealing the Lord has
me perform it alone. He revealed this ordinance to
me in the midst of the heavenly sessions about a
year ago or more. It was more than a year ago.
And both of you brethren have received that
blessing. And I see the heavenly fire increasing in
you, brethren.
Have a seat right there. Hello.
Merilyn Jeffs Nielsen: Hello, sir.
Are you feeling better?
Merilyn Jeffs Nielsen: So much better. Thank
heaven.
I am to perform the ordinance of sealing the
love of God in your mind and heart if you are
willing to receive.
Merilyn: Yes, sir.
Repeat the words in your mind as I voice them
as a prayer and you will feel the witness. I have
known you a long time. The Lord knows you. We
will see what He has for you. Sit right here. This is
not a patriarchal blessing, it is an actual sealing of
the powers of the Priesthood giving you a blessing
to help you grow spiritually faster than ever.
Apply unto the Lord to fulfill this and you will
witness great things. Merilyn Jeffs Nielsen right?
Prayer:
Our dear faithful sister, Merilyn Jeffs Nielsen,
in the presence of your husband and according to
the appointment of the Lord our God, we lay our
hands upon your head and in the authority of the
holy Melchizedek Priesthood which we bear, and
by the keys and powers thereof, we seal the love of
God in your mind and heart as a daily increase to
flow into you from this time henceforth. And this
shall be a strengthening of your spiritual growth
that from this time forth you will have this
heavenly power to make you acquainted with the
all-consuming fire from heaven and eventually the
presence of God. And we bless you through this
gift earned and exerted through prayer that you
will feel the presence of the heavenly beings, learn
and earn the greater heavenly sensitivety of the
Spirit of God and you will have bursts of
impressions and revelation, intelligence of heaven
beyond what you have known before. And you
will have thoughts and impressions of sacred great
truths and as you keep them silent and sacred
through the Priesthood authority over you and
further ordinances given, you will already be
prepared for the knowledge of God and greater
trainings, and you will administer to your husband
and be a strength in his dominion and you will
come to know God as you apply unto Him for this
gift to be realized. All this through your
faithfulness continued dear sister. Know that the
Lord loves you. He has preserved your life for a
special purpose in Him. And through your
faithfulness, the renewing power of God will be
upon you and many children shall look to you as
mother and you will bless many in your husband's
dominion. And as a witness this is of God, this
sealing ordinance, we say to you: Be ye filled with
the Holy Ghost and feel the heavenly fire flow into
your mind and heart at this time as a witness the

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