Leonard J. Arrington reports that Boyd K. Packer told him that Jesus Christ appeared when the revelation ending the priesthood ban was given.

Date
Aug 28, 1978
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Leonard J. Arrington
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Paraphrase
2nd Hand
Reference

Leonard J. Arrington Diary, 28 August, 1978, Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Box 33, Folder 5, Utah State University Special Collections

Scribe/Publisher
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library
People
Glen M. Leonard, Leonard J. Arrington, Bruce R. McConkie, Owen Allred, Boyd K. Packer, Rulon Allred, Fred Collier
Audience
Leonard J. Arrington
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Transcription

Davis said that while I was gone last week, Fred Collier came in to tell Glen Leonard that he hadn't gotten the typeset finished on the Journal of Mormon History, and since Glen wasn't there, dropped in to see Davis. He asked Davis, "What have you heard on the revelation of June 9?" Davis asked him what he had heard. He told Davis that he had heard from Boyd Packer's testimony in a testimony meeting and about Bro. McConkie's speech to his family, and he said that Elder Packer in bearing his testimony said that Jesus himself had appeared at the June 1 meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Presidency. In speaking of it he was all choked up and said now he could testify that Jesus was a person of body, parts, and passions--a person of flesh and blood, and that Jesus himself had been seen by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve in that meeting, and indicated his desire to have them accept the blacks into the priesthood.

He ^Fred^ looked at his watched and didn't have time to talk about what he had heard about Elder McConkie's testimony.

Earlier he told Davis that the advertisement in the paper signed by "Joseph Jensen" was not done by any of Joseph Jensen's in the phone book--there are five-- and they have had unnumberable calls since. It was actually written and paid for by Owen Allred, brother of Rulon Allred and a leader of the Fundamentalist Church. The two little old ladies that we heard about were probably his wives--the ones that paid the $3000 for the advertisement in $50 bills.

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