I don’t know the answer to this, but the question needs to be asked. Elder Packer was a very strong and outspoken critic of Statism and Conspiracies, and the Pope has just came out and announced that we need a New World Order to take over the whole world. If the Vatican is behind his death, they are now cursed of God. I wonder what the talk he was working on was about. Elder Packer once said: “The State has BECOME the religion.” That certainly sounds like he was warning about the Vatican’s attacks on our nation.
President Packer was working on upcoming conference talk when he died
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865632097/President-Packer-was-working-on-upcoming-conference-talk-when-he-died.html
By Tad Walch, Deseret News
Published: Tuesday, July 7 2015 11:20 a.m. MDT
Updated: 6 hours ago
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Elder Allan F. Packer talks Tuesday, July 7, 2015, inside the Relief Society building on Temple Square in Salt Lake City about his father President Boyd K. Packer, who passed away July 3, 2015.
Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Summary
President Boyd K. Packer was preparing a talk last week for the LDS Church’s October general conference before he died on Friday at age 90. He served 21 years as president of the faith’s Quorum of the Twelve and 53 years as a general authority.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Early last week, President Boyd K. Packer was preparing his talk for the LDS Church’s upcoming October general conference before his health began to fail and he died Friday at 90 years old of causes incident to old age.
For the man who had spent the past 21 years as the acting president or president of the faith’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the talk would have been the 108th conference address in 53 years as a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“He was anticipating another message,” his son, Elder Allan F. Packer, himself an LDS general authority as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. “Unfortunately, that’s probably never going to be heard.
“The body just got tired.”
President Packer’s longevity as an LDS leader was noteworthy, though he had been dealing with the aftereffects of childhood polio for a number of years, delivering his final eight conference talks while seated in a maroon chair.
He died Friday at about 2 p.m., a day before a planned Packer family reunion of the 423 descendants of his parents in Brigham City, Utah.
“A lot of the family was gathering for the reunion,” Elder Packer said. “So most of the family was able to be there. He passed peacefully with the family around him. I hope he — I think he enjoyed that, appreciated that.”
Family man
The reunion went ahead as planned.
“I think maybe he decided that’s the only way he was going to be be able to attend,” Elder Packer said. “It was a wonderful gathering, really a celebration of his life and passing. That did take a center spot in the reunion.”
President Packer and his wife, Donna Smith Packer, had 10 children and 60 grandchildren. On Monday, the family welcomed the 111th great-grandchild.
“All of the family, of course, are going through some ups and downs, emotions,” Elder Packer said, “and feelings about ‘I wish I’d talked about this’ or ‘I’ve got this question I wish I would have asked.'”
Including spouses, President and Sister Packer now have a family of about 236, Elder Packer said.
“That’s his legacy, really,” Elder Packer said. “I think he’d want to be remembered as a father and husband first, and then as an obedient member of the church and a priesthood holder who did all that he could to respond to what the Lord wanted him to do.”
He also said he believed President Packer would be remembered “as one who knew the doctrine and was a teacher and tried to teach in such a way that people understood and didn’t misunderstand.”
He said the family’s faith in Jesus Christ eases the sting of separation, which they consider temporary.
“I think that’s immeasurable. Dad was always optimistic and positive and not afraid of anything. He said over and over again — we’ve heard him say — ‘The Twelve are not afraid of what’s going on in the world.’ That brings great peace to the church and the family.
“We’ll miss him, but it’s more of a graduation, as we look at things.”
Rare service
President Packer became an Assistant to the Twelve in 1961, a member of the Twelve in 1970. He has been a fixture in church leadership ever since.
Article from the Vatican/CIA’s twisted Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/03/boyd-k-packer-dead-mormon_n_7725242.html
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon leader Boyd K. Packer, president of the faith’s highest governing body, has died. He was 90.
Packer died Friday afternoon at his home in Salt Lake City from natural causes, church spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a statement. He was next in line to become president of the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Packer was known for being a staunch advocate for a conservative form of Mormonism, making him an idol for like-minded, devout Latter-day Saints but also a target of frequent criticism from gay rights groups and more liberal Mormons.
He had been a member of the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles since 1970. The group is modeled after Jesus Christ’s apostles and serves under the church president and his two counselors.
He is the second member of quorum to die in recent months. L. Tom Perry died on May 30 from cancer.
Quorum member Russell M. Nelson, 90, now becomes the leader who would take Mormon President Thomas S. Monson’s place because he is now the most tenured of the group. Monson is 87 years old, and church officials have said he’s feeling the effects of his age.
Replacements for Packer and Perry will be chosen sometime in the coming months by Monson, considered the religion’s prophet. Members of the faith believe those decisions are guided by inspiration from God. Some past quorum members have been moved up from another governing body, the Quorum of the Seventy, while others have come from leadership posts at church-run universities.
When Packer was chosen for the group, he was already working for the church.
Packer was born Sept. 10, 1924 in Brigham City, Utah, and was a bomber pilot during World War II. He earned an undergraduate degree from Utah State University and a master’s in educational administration from Brigham Young University.
During his 45 years as a member of the quorum, Packer became known as a fearless defender of the gospel and master teacher of church principles, the church said in a news release.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said in a statement that Packer was “unwavering in his devotion to his faith and the principles by which he lived his life.” Herbert added that Packer’s “strength and love were felt by church members throughout the world.”
Fellow church leaders called him a true apostle for the religion.
“From the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, he represented the savior of the world,” said quorum member M. Russell Ballard in a news release.
Packer spent most of his adult life working for the church and earned a reputation of being a tenacious advocate for his orthodox views on Mormonism, said Patrick Mason, chairman of the religion department and professor of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University in California. Some called him a bulldog, but Packer preferred the biblical analogy of “watchman on the tower,” Mason said.
He was known for having a major influence within the church hierarchy and bureaucracy, having mentored at least one if not two generations of church leaders and bureaucrats, Mason said.
Packer is remembered for giving a speech in 1993 in which he warned that the religion faced the greatest threat from three groups: feminists, homosexuals and intellectuals.
In 2010, he denounced homosexual attraction as unnatural and immoral. His hostility toward homosexuality made him a target in recent years of gay rights advocates, said Armand Mauss, a Mormon scholar and retired professor of sociology and religious studies at Washington State University.
In 2013, a Utah gay-rights organization started a petition to protest the naming of a new Weber State University center after Packer.
Mauss said Packer will be remembered “for an unyielding resistance to the secular, social world, especially as that world evolved during his lifetime.”
The church credits Packer with being a key driver of the religion’s growth into a worldwide religion that now counts 15 million members around the globe.
He painted as a hobby, with birds being one of his favorite subjects. Packer was married to his wife, Donna, for more than 70 years. They had 10 children.
In one of his last speeches, during a church conference in April, Packer spoke about the joy of romance and love and the importance of a man and woman and their children being sealed in a Mormon temple for eternity. Packer acknowledged marriage is a challenge and offered the key ingredients to successful marriages: “a cookie and a kiss.”
Funeral services have not yet been scheduled.