As I have read the Mosiah Hancock diary, I have grown to have quite an affinity for the man. I cannot wait to meet him along with quite a list of others. I liked this story from his diary about pure and abiding faith that his father had. Pure faith and simple faith. That is what will help usher us into God's kingdom:
Father had a great deal of opposition in Nauvoo. One day as father and I were walking down Water Street, and we came within twenty feet of the Mansion, an east window raised up, and Francis M. Higbee took deliberate aim with a rifle, and shot father in the left breast. I was walking on father's right side, and I saw the shot fired, and heard the thud as the bullet struck, but father stopped and picked up the bullet from the ground, and reaching it toward heaven with his right hand, said, "I thank thee, O God the Eternal Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, that thou didst destroy the power of this bullet". As soon as the shot was fired, the window was shut down. I suppose Higbee thought father was gone this time for sure, but father had been shot at many times by the mobbers and apostates. Father had had the temple in his care for sometime, and some were jealous of the honors conferred upon him.
Here is the link for those that liked this snippet from Mosiah's life history:
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/MHancock.html
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