He was the spokesman for all of the Apostles in addressing our Heavenly Father.” 3 As I have listened to him ask our Heavenly Father to bless the sacrament, I have felt of the deep spirituality in his soul. Hunter bless the sacrament as we have had in the temple. “I wish the Aaronic Priesthood boys throughout the Church could have the same opportunity of hearing Elder Howard W. Haight, who served with Elder Hunter in the Quorum of the Twelve, described the experience of hearing him bless the sacrament: Hunter was called as an Apostle, he regularly participated in the ordinance of the sacrament with other General Authorities in the Salt Lake Temple. After the meeting the bishop complimented me on the way I had conducted myself.” 2 “I was frightened, but thrilled to have the privilege. “I remember the first time I passed the sacrament,” he said. Soon afterward, he was ordained a deacon. Nearly five months after his 12th birthday, Howard persuaded his father to let him be baptized. I wanted to pass the sacrament, but couldn’t because I had not been baptized.” 1 “When it was time for them to pass the sacrament, I would slump down in my seat.
“I sat in sacrament meetings with the other boys,” he recalled. Even though he was able to participate with the young men in other activities, Howard was deeply disappointed that he could not pass the sacrament with them. When Howard turned 12, he could not receive the Aaronic Priesthood and be ordained a deacon because he had not been baptized. He felt that they should not make that decision until they were older. His father did not object to the family’s participation in the Church-he even attended sacrament meetings with them occasionally-but he did not want his children to be baptized when they were 8 years old. Hunter was raised by an active Latter-day Saint mother and a good father who was not then affiliated with any church.
0 kommentar(er)
