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Talk of Josephine Johnson, Salt Lake City, 17 April 1960

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17 April 1960

Talk of Josephine Johnson, Salt Lake City, 17 April 1960

A talk by Josephine Johnson at a general meeting at the Fischer home in Salt Lake City. The recording opens with an introduction of “Sister Johnson,” after which she speaks. The archive file is labeled Josephine Johnson. A short biography of Josephine Johnson is on her person page. The text is an automatic, unreviewed transcript of the recording, lightly paragraphed for reading. The recording itself is the source.

Members · Full recording · 7:16

We're grateful to have Sister Johnson here tonight and we'd like to have her bear her testimonies here. There's something to learn in everything you do. If you do it more than once, you ought to know how. I am grateful, fans, to have this opportunity. We enjoy each other's company from week to week that we can associate together.

And I know that we get a great lift. If it wasn't for these meetings, we'd be almost stranded. We'd feel like there wasn't anything left to live for. We have this opportunity to meet together, to associate with each other, and to let our feelings be known, and to give our love to each other and our support.

If it weren't for the support that we give to each other, I think we'd have a hard time to get along. I am grateful for my many blessings. I feel like that I am blessed beyond almost everything. I know that the Lord is with us, that he watches over us, that he blesses us from day to day. If it weren't for the knowledge that we have, of his blessings, he would be again in a bad way. He wouldn't know hardly how to get along. But now that we know that our Father and our God and Jesus Christ are watching over us and helping us and supporting us, we have great strength. We know that there's great being to live for. We have each other.

to appreciate, to associate with, and to be friends. And these are the things that God is grateful to give us. These many great blessings, the friendship of each other and the love that we can feel for each other. I don't know what I can say more. These are benefits to you people. I love you. I appreciate the opportunities that I have and the knowledge.

that I have of the people who we can associate with. These are great and wonderful gifts to us, our association together, and the faith that we have in each other, and the love that we can feel for each other. It would be a great system, and I'd like to let people know how much I appreciate the system.

of the faith of our little brains. These are the things that I am grateful for from day to day. And I know that the Lord is looking down upon us and watching over us at all times. I pray that he will continue his blessings upon us and that we may go forward each day and learn something and apply our learnings to our forward march. I am grateful beyond saying for the friendship that I feel for all of you here. It's part of my life. It's just like a better head that we hardly can, we can hardly know the value of it. We can feel, we can feel how great it is.

But to think of the wonderful situation that we are in, that we have all these people. We know them. We know them when we meet them. And it is a wonderful thing to feel that friendliness and that wonderful gift that we have is very nice to me. I pray to the Lord to look down upon us and help us.

to appreciate the blessings that we have. Help us to realize these wonderful gifts, the things that the gospel gives us from day to day. And when we know what we have, we appreciate with all our hearts the many blessings of the gifts of the gospel. I'm very grateful for the understanding that I feel and the knowledge that I have.

of my friends, and the many things that God shows us from day to day. These are wonderful people. The things that we know, that we appreciate, that we have to study and think about, they are wonderful things to us, and we can look forward from day to day and understand how much they mean to us. It's the knowledge that we have of these.

This is the gospel that helps us to appreciate what it is to us. I'm thankful for all these things, and I pray that the Lord will look down upon us and help us to live unitedly and with the love of each other in our hearts with my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Sources

  1. From the Historical Short Creek archive, 1960 documents. Duration 7:16. Automatic transcript (unreviewed). Speaker identification is from the archive file name, checked against the opening of the recording where it names or introduces the speaker.

The story and this transcript are free to read. The full recording is for members. No public media URL is listed here.