News for Mormons

From Explorernews.com:

A painting of Jesus hangs on the wall, a collection of hymnals sit near the piano, and on the table sits a hand-cranked machine for grinding grain.

The topic of this gathering for members of the north stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 939 W. Chapala Drive is dry canning — squeezing spaghetti, wheat and even dried carrots into gallon-size steel cans to stow away in case disaster strikes.

Northwest resident Maureen Babcock, the speaker, is a recent convert. She built nearly an entire coffee table this year from just her supply of beans. And she wants others to catch the canning fever.

“Blessing No. 10,” she calls. That’s No. 10 from the top 10 blessings of canning, as defined by her.

One of the gatherers pulls out one of the thin strips of paper that Babcock passed out and begins to read.

“If you are 16 or older, you are old enough to drive — and to can.”

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From The Louisville Courier Journal:

Satterwhite, who owns Derby City Photography, printed 11-by-17 inch collages of the photos of people’s faces she had taken on her trip to Peru. Then, on Labor Day weekend, she sold dozens of the posters at WorldFest, Metro Louisville’s yearly celebration of cultural diversity on the Belvedere.

She donated the $800 she earned to LDS Humanitarian Services, a relief agency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

A native of Charleston, W.Va., who moved to Louisville in 1996 to join extended family here, Satterwhite is the mother of three children and four stepchildren. Her late husband, insurance executive Ron Satterwhite, died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1999. Two of her children still live at home, and she has eight grandchildren.

She is an active member of the Peewee Valley Mormon community.

“Kathleen is a very special individual, very dedicated and talented,” said Randy Peterson, a church bishop familiar with her fundraising efforts for earthquake victims in Peru. “She has the ability to be so passionate about a cause that it gets others enthused about it. That’s one of her gifts, and she uses it to help people.”

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From The Deseret Morning News:

L. John Nuttal acted as a temple recorder to LDS Church President Brigham Young, then as private secretary to Presidents John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff.

In that unique role he traveled often with LDS Church presidents, attended hundreds of meetings, answered private correspondence and overheard many conversations, which he recorded in his diaries.

It’s not surprising that the editor and the publisher consider Nuttal’s diaries to be one of the most significant in 19th-century Mormon history. Hence, “The Diaries of L. John Nuttal.”

Nuttal served as a missionary in Great Britain, then as a bishop and stake president in Kanab, and also became heavily involved in financial decisions concerning church property, including Brigham Young’s estate. Finally, church leaders called him to stay in Salt Lake City permanently, a decision he accepted, although he preferred living in Kanab.

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