Pancho Villa stopped by vision of Fire
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Pancho Villa and his guerrillas retreated into Northern Mexico after a brutal defeat while raiding Columbus N.M. Intent on pillaging Colonia Juarez they approached the cowering community under the cover of darkness. A story of miraculous deliverance that should be a movie. A modern version of Gadianton robbers in northern Mexico. Pancho's vision of Juarez burning spared the town and its inhabitants. Great bedtime Stories. fall to sleep with Brother Merrill's soothing voice, while you feel the Lord's love for you.
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Thank you so much for your Inspirational Stories. I love to watch your videos and feel the spirit of your testimony.
I appreciate your kind words, my spelling and pronunciation seems to have distracted many. Thanks for watching
You're right, it should be a movie. :)
Thanks for watching
Thanks bro Merrill! My wife’s 2nd great grandfather lived in the Gila Valley late 1800’s /early 1900’s. Pancho Villa & company stole his prized white horse In one of his raids and grandpa tried everything he could to get the government to go to war with Villa so he could get his hose back! Didn’t happen of course !
He was like a Gadianton Robber for decades in Northern Mexico
And Pancho Villa joined the Church after that experience. He was one of 8 politicians killed in the Mexican Revolution trying to unseat Diaz’s successor after that dictator was booted. The Church leaders gave Pancho Villa a Book of Mormon after that experience. He was baptized a member of the Church. He was killed by those he was fighting when he was ambushed in his car and shot multiple times. After he was dead, there were two major revolutionary politicians left before the Revolution ended.
@@donaldjones9830 Wow I didn't know any of this. The Savior's atonement allows all of us to over come our past, no matter what we have done, we can repent and come to the Lord. Thanks for sharing this and watching
@@lancemerrill6390 I was wondering if you knew. Since your story telling didn’t go beyond the vision he had.
My comment is to add to your testimony of the power of the Lord in the protection of the Saints when they prayed for it to the Lord. His matchless power aided the Saints to obtain a meeting with Villa and give him a Book of Mormon.
The real irony is that a major break off of the Church operated down there with polygamy down there in recent years. But Mexico is second to the US in Church membership followed closely by Brazil. I believe the 3 Nephites are working to help bring their descendants into the Church.
In speaking of visions, that colony is not far from the Zone of Silence, an area of Northern Mexico where radio communication doesn’t work.
What irony, since prayer is a form of communication that always works.
I testify that what I added to this story is true and that faith and prayer does work.
Elder Mariner W Merrill would have testified of what I said here. He was an amazing apostle of the Lord.
By the way, I was born in Logan, like my mother was. Same hospital, same room. The hospital has since been torn down.
So your story of him opposing Satan in the Logan Temple was familiar to me.
My Stake President is the fifth great grandson of the Prophet Joseph’s personal doctor, John Bernheisel.
Thank you for your faithful dedication to the gospel. I love these stories you tell. Even the original comment on this thread is something I’ve heard about Pancho Villa before. My great great grandmother lived in Arizona and knew Geronimo. She lived until just after I was born.
Thankyou, Bro. Merrill. That story would equal any Book of Mormon story! I'm so glad that the town was spared.
My good friend Carlos called me yesterday and said his family came from Juarez. The Lord is always there. Sometimes the outcome is not as gentle. Our world is a wicked place.
I have ancestors that lived in Colonia Diaz. I love this story. I've heard this story before. It was good to hear it again.
Gloria I'm glad you enjoyed it. Many people have never heard it. Thanks for watching. Please spread the word. I am new at this UA-cam stuff.
I found this story very interesting because my mother was one of the little children who had to leave everything that wasn't absolutely necessary and come to the USA in 1912 when she was 6 years old. I had never heard this story. My mother told how she always believed that it was Poncho Via's men that were unruly and that Poncho Via actually liked the "Mormons". She even told of how she road her "stick" horse down the road along side of Poncho Via one time.
Wow, that is amazing. He must have been a charismatic leader. Thanks for watching
My grandmother’s childhood was spent in Colonia Chuichupa just before they were forced to flee to El Paso. What an incredible story this was you shared.
So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. I post more every Saturday morning. On Wednesday March 27 '24 at 7:30 I am also doing a live.
My grandmother was pregnant with my dad when they left. Grandfather was with the men driving cattle. They settled in Pima, AZ. When Dad was 3 yrs old, they went back to Juarez, where they remained for another 15 years or so. In the late 1930s they came back out, destitute & worn.
Burt Whetten later had a dream in which Villa came to him, pleading to have his temple ordinances performed. After approval from Church leaders, he was able to facilitate those ordinances for Villa & his wife.
It is an amazing part of history. So many people have lived on the this earth. We have a lot of temple work to do. We all tend to judge others and see their faults. It is wonderful to see how forgiving and far reaching our Savior's Sacrifice is.
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My mother in law was born in Chuichupa. When her dad died after being struck by lightning, they moved to Colonia Juarez, where her widowed mother had a general store. Her name was Damiana Perez viuda de Burgos.
@@ChapinaUSA my grandmother was Georgeanna Maude Sevey b. 1902 in Col. Chuichupa. The following accounts were unforgettable to her as a young girl and are from her autobiography, “My many mansions“… In summer the electric storms were really terrific. One day while father was sitting at his desk, the lightning struck the telephone wires just outside. The phone was on the wall by his desk and when that lightning struck, a long tongue of flame was shot out into the room from the transmitter, just above father’s head; the noise was awful, like a loud, crackling gunshot. It was amazing he wasn’t killed. I was sitting in a chair and was very frightened.
Another time I was walking barefoot along the path (sidewalk) from Uncle Tom and Aunt Belle’s place. Their fence was barbed wire and very close to the path. A storm was about to break, but I wasn’t worried. I was just a little way to our house. Suddenly for some reason I left the sidewalk and went to the middle of the dusty street to walk. I loved the feel of the deep, powdery dust squishing between my bare toes. Almost the moment I got into the street, the lightning struck that fence, and a thick twisting rope of flame swept along that barbed wire fence like a giant snake, hissing and crackling. It was a sight I have never forgotten. Thanks to my guardian angel, I had moved just in time.
There was a lady in my ward growing up that lived in that area as a young girl. I remember her stories of Poncho Villa coming into their town.
thanks for watching, more to come every Saturday
I love you and your stories brother Merrill. I have read the story of Mariner and his incredible life. I am a Southern California convert and joined back in 1975, at the age of twenty. My wife’s side has ancestors from the settlers of Gila Valley. Her great grandparents were part of the Colonia Juarez exodus. They never went back to Mexico and settled permanently in the Safford, Arizona area, as well as Virden, NM.
I have subscribed and look forward to more of your content. You do a great job! Many thanks.
Thank you so much for this wonderful heartfelt view. I feel like we need to share these inspirational stories. When I told my wife about this Pancho Villa story she was a little skeptical, until she heard the video. I have a great story woking for next Saturday. Please help me spread the word. Thanks again, Lance Merrill
@@lancemerrill6390 I certainly will. Thanks again.
My husbands grandmother was born in Colonia Juarez as well, and her parents had several teenage daughters, and left Mexico. They moved to Mesa AZ, and never went back either. She ended up with difficulties as a widow, trying to collect Social Security after her husband died, because she hadn't become a naturalized citizen, being born in Mexico!
Some good people came out of the Colonies@@elainefarr3155
On UA-cam you can find a very old byu movie about miracles in the Mormon colonies during Pancho Villa's time. The movie is called "And Should We Die"
Thanks, I will have to check it out.
My Great Grandma had an interesting, and scary encounter with Ol’ Pancho and friends, while living in Colonial Juarez. They came to her home while her husband was out buying train tickets to send her and their children back to the states. He would follow with the wagon and their supplies. But he wanted to get his family safely out of Mexico, and away from the war. So while Great Grandpa was gone, Pancho Vila and his men came to the house. He had a brand new gun, which he was shooting in the air. My brave great grandmother told her children to stay inside, then she went out to meet Ol’ Pancho . She told him he had a nice gun. Then she asked him if she could shoot it. She made him a wager that she could shoot any target. So Pancho took her up on the wager. He picked a target, handed her the gun, she aimed, fired, and hit the target. Pancho laughed with glee, as she handed the gun back to him. He then turned his horse, motioned to his men to leave, and rode away, leaving her and their home alone. Great Grandpa put her and the children on the train, and he followed with no trouble from the Mexicans. They never went back, but rather, settled in Arizona. My Great Grandparents were not practicing polygamy.
Wow, what a brave lady. That is an awesome story. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Holy cow! Crazy story!!
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That is a neat story and reminds of Ute Chief Walkara and the settlers of Manti. How he was told in a vision or by an angel to not attack the settlers at Manti.
If I remember right, I believe church leaders told those at Colonia Diaz to evacuate to Arizona, and all that stayed behind were killed by Pancho Villa's army.
This account would tell another outcome.
Thank you so much for sharing this information 😮
I thought it was an amazing story. Thanks for watching. More to come every Saturday morning
We literally have that story written in the history of my grandpa Pratt
It is a great story
You’re so great! Thank you for sharing this!
So glad you found the channel. Please spread the word, I am just starting out on this journey. More to come. Thanks
My mother was born 2 days after her mother got to El Paso Tex.
Wow, imagine traveling in that condition in those conditions... Thanks for watching
We’ve heard the same about Colonia Dublin also. My mother was raised in Dublin.
Thanks for watching
And Pancho Villa joined the Church because of this experience. After being given a Book of Mormon while with the leaders of the government. He was later one of over a half a dozen revolutionary politicians killed during the Mexican revolution starting in 1910. The US invaded Mexico from Columbus New Mexico trying to capture him but failed in 1916. The next year, the US declared war on Germany after learning from British decoders and spies that they were offering Mexico US land if they joined the Central Powers. That occurred on April 6, on the anniversary of the battle of Shiloh won by US.Grant.
Another great story in Church history.
Sorry I didn't respond to this comment earlier. I just saw it. That is a fascinating bit of information. I will have to look into it more. Thanks for watching
Nice account, Lance.
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching
I grew up and attented to Colonia Juarez and many old members from there would tell us this story! I thought it was just a folk tale but I cant believe that someone else knew of this!
Sorry I just saw your comment. Thanks for watching
Pancho Villa is one 🕐🕜 of my ancestors from my biological father's side of my family!❤😂🎉😅😊! 5/24/24. 6:38pm. 13:09
There has been some very interesting discussions on this comment stream about him. Thanks for listening
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Difficult to hear you without putting my ear up next to the computer. I can hear the commercials loud and clear.
sorry I have been working on volume. The commercials are always loud.
Oops… Colonial Dublan.