MODERN DAY PROPHETS
THIS PROPHET WAS WITH JOSEPH SMITH IN CARTHAGE JAIL.
JOHN TAYLOR
WHAT IS: THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR
SHE ENSURED MOSES'S SAFETY AFTER HE WAS PUT IN THE RIVER BY HIS MOTHER.
MIRIAM
* MOSES'S SISTER
* LOOKED AFTER THE ARK OF BULRUSHES, "TO WIT WHAT WOULD BE DONE TO HIM" (EXODUS 2:4)
KNOWN AS THE KING OF ROCK & ROLL.
THE ORIGINAL NAUVOO TEMPLE
THIS PROPHET ENCOURAGED THE SAINTS OF ST. GEORGE TO PAY TITHING.
LORENZO SNOW
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATED
"WHITHER THOU GOEST, I WILL GO, AND WHERE THOU LODGEST, I WILL LODGE, THY PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND THY GOD MY GOD"
RUTH
* MOABITESS AND A STRANGER IN JERUSALEM, RUTH REMAINED LOYAL TO HER MARRIAGE VOWS AND TO HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, NAOMI.
THE TABERBACLE CHOIR AT TEMPLE SQUARE
THIS WAS THE FIRST TEMPLE DEDICATED OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA / HAWAII.
BERN, SWITZERLAND TEMPLE
*ORIGINALLY NAMED THE SWISS TEMPLE, DEDICATED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1955.
THIS PROPHET HELPED THE US GOVERNMENT TO REBUILD GERMANY AFTER WWII.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS ORGANIZED.
BETRAYED SAMSON BY HAVING HIS HAIR CUT WHILE HE SLEPT.
DELILAH
* DISCOVERED HIS STRENGTH CAME FROM HIS LONG HAIR
* HANDED HIM OVER THE PHILISTINES, WHO BLINDED AND IMPRISONED SAMSON.
FIRST APPEARED IN AMERICA ON FEBRUARY 9, 1964 ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW.
THE BEATLES
THIS WAS THE FIRST TEMPLE BUILT IN A NATION UNDER COMMUNIST RULE.
FREIBURG, GERMANY TEMPLE
*DEDICATED IN 1985 BY GORDON B. HINCKLEY
THIS PROPHET WAS ASSOICATED WITH THE PHRASE, "JUST DO IT".
SPENCER W. KIMBALL
JULY 20, 1969
APOLLO 11 LANDED ON THE MOON.
DUE TO HER AGE, SHE LAUGHED AT THE LORD WHEN SHE DISCOVERED SHE WAS WITH CHILD.
SARAH
* SHE WAS 91, ABRAHAM WAS 100
* ISSAC WAS HER FIRSTBORN
* FULFILLED THE LORD'S PROMISE: "SHE SHALL BE A MOTHER OF NATIONS; KINGS OF PEOPLE SHALL BE OF HER" (GENESIS 17:16)
THIS WAS THE FIRST TEMPLE COMPLETED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
CARDSTON, ALBERTA TEMPLE
* DEDICATED IN AUGUST 1923, THE 8TH OPERATING TEMPLE OF THE CHURCH AT THE TIME.
THIS PROPHET DEDICATED ONLY 2 TEMPLES DURING HIS PRESIDENCY, ONE BEING THE BOUNTIFUL TEMPLE.
HOWARD W. HUNTER
SEPTEMBER 22, 1827
JOSEPH SMITH RECEIVED THE GOLD PLATES.
PREVENTED THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY APPROACHING THE KING WITHOUT CONSENT.
ESTHER
* HEBREW NAME "HADASSAH, USED HER PERSIAN NAME ESTHER TO HIDE HER JEWISH HERITGE
* APPROACHED PERSIAN KING AHASUERUS WITHOUT AN INVITATION, A CRIME PUNISHBLE BY DEATH, TO EXPOSE HAMAN'S PLOT TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
THIS COUNTRY SINGER OPENED A THEME PARK IN 1986, WHICH STILL OPERATES TODAY.
ORDINACNES FOR THE DEAD WERE FIRST PERFORMED IN THIS TEMPLE.
ST. GEORGE, UTAH TEMPLE
* THE OLDEST OPERATING TEMPLE AND THE ONLY TEMPLE COMPLETED DURING BRIGHAM YOUNG'S PRESIDENCY.