Author: Marilee Leishman

Peaceful Instrumental LDS Hymns & Songs – 1 Hour

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Peaceful Instrumental LDS Hymns & Songs – 1 Hour

This is an hour long compilation video of peaceful hymns & primary songs in an instrumental setting. There are a few with guitar, all have piano and some feature strings. I have taken 18 songs and adapted them. Whenever I watch videos with a fire going, I actually feel physically warmer…it’s weird! (or maybe I’m just weird haha) I especially like to turn these kinds of videos onto my TV at our home and there aren’t many like this with specifically LDS hymns and songs so I thought I would make one!

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Joseph Smith’s First Prayer

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Joseph Smith’s First Prayer

A summary of what inspired the writing of this hymn is as follows…young George Manwaring was looking at a new painting of Joseph Smith’s First Vision. Upon seeing it, he became immediately inspired and shortly after began the work of writing this hymn. Each verse goes through the process of what happened on that beautiful spring morning, I am sure drawing on the accounts that Joseph Smith gave of his experiences.

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I Believe in Christ BOM

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I Believe in Christ BOM

It was in that talk (In his April 1972 general conference address) that my father first read in public the words he had written of the hymn: “I Believe in Christ.” His talk was entitled The Testimony of Jesus. (At the time he was not a member of the quorum of the 12 apostles, he was serving in the first council of the 70). But shortly after that general conference talk, (later that year) he was called to the apostleship.

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This is My Beloved Son

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This is My Beloved Son

This is My Beloved Son is a song from the LDS Children’s Songbook by (Words) Marvin K. Gardner, b. 1952 and (Music) Vanja Y. Watkins, b. 1938. Each verse talks about a different setting and point in time in which God the Father introduces his Son Jesus Christ, calling him “Beloved”. 3 Nephi chapter 11 contains the account of the voice of the Father testifying of his Son and Jesus Christ appearing to the people in the Americas after his resurrection.

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