searched for wilford woodruff in All LDS Church Content.

Spencer J. Condie

Quoted in Cowley, Wilford Woodruff, 50. 3. Quoted in Cowley, Wilford Woodruff, 50. 4.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > July 2002

Last night, descendants of Wilford Woodruff , the fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, met at Temple Square to commemorate the 200th anniversary of President Woodruff’s birth. In turn, Wilford Woodruff baptized Ellen Benbow, Elder Holland’s great-great-grandmother.

News Releases & Stories

Spencer J. Condie

Quoted in Cowley, Wilford Woodruff, 50. 3. Quoted in Cowley, Wilford Woodruff, 50. 4.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 2002

They had no power over these things any more than they had power over the throne of God, or God Himself.” (Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, ed. G. Homer Durham (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946), pp. 26–27.) Wilford Woodruff

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > April 1980

Gospel Art Picture Kit

President of the Church, 1889–1898 Click to View Larger Format When Wilford Woodruff heard the testimonies of two missionaries on 29 December 1833, he was quick to recognize the truth and was baptized just two days later. Your eternal destiny for time and eternity, will in a great measure depend upon the foundation which you lay in the days of your youth” (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, sel.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Primary

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff In October 1880, President Wilford Woodruff told the Saints that he had recently been visited by President Brigham Young, who had died in 1877, and by President Heber C. Kimball, who had died in 1868. “When we arrived at our destination,” recounted President Woodruff, “I asked President Young if he would preach to us. He asserted, “The Church of God could not live twenty-four hours without revelation.” 4 Teachings of Wilford Woodruff The Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit who bears witness of God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the truthfulness of the gospel.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff Wilford Woodruff and Phoebe Whittemore Carter were married on April 13, 1837, in Kirtland, Ohio. Stopping at the top of a ridge not far from the settlement, he took time to look back at his family through his field glasses. 4 Wilford Woodruff rejoiced in the knowledge that his family could be eternal.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Melchizedek Priesthood

The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

The Lord Protected Wilford Woodruff When Wilford Woodruff was an Apostle, he was poisoned while skinning an animal that had been killed by poison. Read the following: “Wilford Woodruff learned to trust deeply in the power of the Lord early in life.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Sunday School

The Presidents of the Church: Teacher’s Manual

Wordstrip Display the wordstrip “Wilford Woodruff—Faithful and True” under the picture of Wilford Woodruff. You Can Be like Wilford Woodruff Tell the class: You can be like Wilford Woodruff.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Sunday School

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

Biographer Matthias F. Cowley observed: “The life of Wilford Woodruff was full of marvels. Teachings of Wilford Woodruff When we record our life history, we benefit ourselves, our posterity, and the Church.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff When the Kirtland Temple was dedicated on March 27, 1836, Wilford Woodruff was serving a full-time mission in the southern United States. Teachings of Wilford Woodruff We participate in temple work with heavenly joy, knowing that it helps prepare us, our descendants, and our ancestors to dwell in God’s presence.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff Elder Wilford Woodruff was at home one afternoon when he received word that President Brigham Young wanted to see him at the Church Historian’s Office. They then fell by turn, or in the providence of God, upon Wilford Woodruff. “I say to the Latter-day Saints the keys of the kingdom of God are here, and they are going to stay here, too, until the coming of the Son of Man.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff President Wilford Woodruff loved the fellowship of other Church members. He was loyal to the Prophet, true to his brethren.” 3 Teachings of Wilford Woodruff Unity prevails among the members of the Godhead and in the celestial kingdom.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff From his early days as a new member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff had a testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. From those early days in Kirtland until the Prophet’s martyrdom 10 years later, Wilford Woodruff served faithfully with Joseph Smith, even when friends and associates in the Church apostatized.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff On March 1, 1845, Elder Wilford Woodruff, who was then serving as the presiding Church authority in the British Isles, received a letter from a friend in the United States. This was not the first time Wilford Woodruff worked to get the scriptures into the hands of the Latter-day Saints.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

Wilford Woodruff’s Childhood and Youth: A Solid Foundation Laid in the Home Wilford Woodruff was born on March 1, 1807, in Farmington, Connecticut, to Aphek Woodruff and Beulah Thompson Woodruff. Years later, believing that other Latter-day Saints could benefit from his personal experiences, 13 President Wilford Woodruff often told the story of his search for the truth.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff In early August 1839, Elder Wilford Woodruff left his home in Montrose, Iowa, obeying the Lord’s call to serve a mission in the British Isles. He merely said that Sarah Emma had been “taken from time” and that she was “gone to be seen no more in this life.” 7 In his 91 years, Wilford Woodruff endured the deaths of many loved ones, including a number of family members and all the Apostles with whom he served under the direction of the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

One such opportunity came in Herefordshire, England, at the home of John Benbow (see page 91 in this book). “John Benbow was a noble man,” recalled President Woodruff. “He was like an English lord; as rich a man, I suppose, as ever came into the Church.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff

From the Life of Wilford Woodruff Shortly after Wilford Woodruff was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, he “had a great desire to preach the Gospel.” He recalled: “One Sunday evening I retired into the woods alone, and called upon the Lord in earnest prayer, to open my way to go and preach the Gospel to the inhabitants of the earth. No man can, unless he has experienced these things, and possesses the testimony of Jesus Christ and the inspiration of Almighty God.” 9 Teachings of Wilford Woodruff God holds us responsible for sharing the gospel with others.

Gospel Library > Lessons > Relief Society

President Wilford Woodruff, the fourth President of the Church, told in general conference how Heavenly Father kept him safe through many dangers so that he could become the prophet: I stand before you today … pretty sound-looking, for a man ninety-one years of age.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Friend > March 2001