22 Mar 2022, Tuesday

22 Mar 2022, Tuesday

Prioritized Daily Task

Abbey Hobbs 15th birthday (we celebrated with her last night in Logan)

Debbie and I had prayer, got ready, and Jami brought Jack over to spend time with us while she goes for a job interview as an oral hygienist.  Debbie and I had a late breakfast and Debbie ironed clothes and played with Jack.  I worked on genealogy.  I missed a call from the Genealogy Library in SLC but they did not leave a message I called the family history center and talked to a young missionary named Brandon in the British/Ireland records.  He did not have the number or extension for the lookup department but knew where it was located.  He went up and gave them my phone number to call about Monday, March 7th order for the land deed 2nd December 1728 in Belfast, Ireland for land Robert McColpin and his wife, Janet, sold to a Mr. McKell.  It was found on Register Surname Index; Year 1708-1729; Surname "M"; Part No. "11"; Serial No. 14450; and film  number 0100261.  I was told it usually takes a month to get the deed after it is requested.  Elder Darwin Rubert and his wife are serving a full-time mission in the Lookup section of the Church's Family History Library.  Elder Rubert (801-240-8435) called at 5 PM.  He could not find the deed of Robert and Janet McColpin in Belfast Ireland.  Their granddaughter has received her mission call and will be opening it when all her family is there.  He wanted to get down to American Fork and not hold the family up.  He could not find the deed but said he would look and call me back early tomorrow afternoon.  Jamie came by and picked Jack up after her interview.  Jamie came by and picked Jack up after her interview.  Jack was asleep before she had been gone 5 minutes.  Debbie cooked dinner and we watched some TV, a documentary on George Müller born in 1805 in Prussia, and a story about a K9 dog Rubby, from a shelter, before having prayer and going to bed. 

George Müller was born in 1805, three months before Joseph Smith but on different sides of the world, both were led by the Lord.  Joseph Smith's life was cut short while George Muller lived to the age of 92.  He cared for 10,024 orphans during his lifetime and provided educational opportunities for the orphans to the point that he was even accused by some of raising the poor above their natural station in British life. He established 117 schools that offered Christian education to more than 120,000.  He never asks for any donations or help from anyone.   He said, "I will only let the Lord know of my needs."   Not receiving government support and only accepting unsolicited gifts, his organization received and disbursed £1,381,171 – around £113 million in today's terms – by the time of Müller's death, primarily using the money for supporting the orphanages and distributing about 285,407 Bibles, 1,459,506 New Testaments, and 244,351 other religious texts, which were translated into twenty other languages. The money was also used to support other "faith missionaries" around the world.  The work continues to this day. 

George Muller was introduced to the idea of an orphanage for children when he lived in the town of  Halle.  With the financial assistance of the King of Prussia, August Hermann Francke had started an orphanage in Halle in 1698.  Today it houses the House of Generations, a primary Montessori school, a nursing home, and a social consulting and education institution for families and health care.

The Francke Foundations has been on the German proposal list as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.

*I wanted to use our land to start a boys' farm at Pleasant Hill when I was a young man.  I had heard about Paul Anderson's Boys Home in Valdosta, Georgia, and drove down and talked to the staff to learn more about it.

The Founder and Georgia Native, Paul Anderson who suffered from Bright’s Disease won the gold medal in weightlifting as a super heavyweight during the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, and then dedicated his life to helping others and planting God’s Word in their hearts.  The Paul Anderson Youth Home in Vidalia, Georgia is a Christ-centered, fully licensed, and accredited home offering a second chance to young men since 1961. The Home focuses on helping transform the lives of troubled young men and their families from all over the country, meeting them at their point of need, and providing a Christian home environment in which they can rebuild their broken lives through a process of recovery, restoration, and redemption.

*The Lord led me (James Leonard McAlpin) in a different direction, instead of caring for youth which I wanted to.  I did not know of George Müller's life at that time but I struggled with some of his challenges as a young man. We both decided to follow the Lord and as He guided George Muller, and has guided other men He led me to care for the old and needy in nursing homes.

Paul Edward Anderson was born October 17, 1932 – died August 15, 1994.  He was an American weightlifter, strongman, and powerlifter. He was an Olympic gold medalist, a world champion, and a two-time national champion in Olympic weightlifting. Anderson contributed significantly to the development of competitive powerlifting.

Early life

Anderson was born in Toccoa, Georgia, the only son of Ethel Bennett and Robert Anderson. As a teenager, he began his early weight training and training on his own in his family's backyard to increase his size and strength so that he would be able to play on the Toccoa High School football team, where he earned a position as first-team blocking back. He used special homemade weights that his father created out of concrete poured into a wooden form.  Anderson attended Furman University on a football scholarship, where he began lifting weights. He later moved to Elizabethton, Tennessee, with his parents, where he met weightlifter Bob Peoples, who would greatly influence him in squat training and introduce him into weightlifting circles.

Career

In 1955, at the height of the Cold War, Anderson, as the winner of the USA National Amateur Athletic Union Weightlifting Championship, traveled to the Soviet Union, where weightlifting was a popular sport, for an international weightlifting competition. In a newsreel of the event shown in the United States the narrator, Bud Palmer, commented as follows: "Then, up to the bar stepped a great ball of a man, Paul Anderson." Palmer said, "The Russians snickered as Anderson gripped the bar, which was set at 402.5 pounds, an unheard-of lift. But their snickers quickly changed to awe and all-out cheers as up went the bar and Anderson lifted the heaviest weight overhead of any human in history." "We rarely have such weights lifted," said the solemn Russian announcer as Anderson hoisted 402.41 lb (182.53 kg) in the two-hand press. Prior to Anderson's lift, the Soviet champion, Alexey Medvedev, had matched the Olympic record of the time with a 330.3 lb (149.8 kg) press. Anderson then did a 402.5 lb (182.6 kg) press. At a time when Americans were engaged in a symbolic Cold War battle with the Soviet Union, Anderson's strength — and his singular, tank-like appearance — became a rallying cry to all.

During the 1955 World Championships in Munich, Germany, that October, Anderson went on to establish two other world records (for the press [407.7 lb (184.9 kg)] and total weight cleared [1,129.5 lb (512.3 kg)]) as he easily won the competition in his weight class to become world champion. Upon his return to the United States, Anderson was received by then Vice-President Richard Nixon, who thanked him for being a goodwill ambassador.

In 1956, Anderson won a gold medal in a long, tough duel with Argentine Humberto Selvetti in the Melbourne, Australia, Olympic Games as a weightlifter in the super-heavyweight class (while suffering from a 104 °F (40 °C) fever). The two competitors were tied in the amount of weight lifted, but because Anderson, who weighed in at 137.9 kg (304 lb), was lighter than Selvetti at the time, who weighed 143.5 kg (316 lb), Anderson was awarded the gold.

Anderson could not compete in the 1960 Olympics because he had been ruled a professional for accepting money for some of his weightlifting and strength exhibitions. Thus at the 1960 Olympics, the Soviet heavyweight Yury Vlasov bested records set at the 1956 Olympics, with Anderson not competing in the contest. A short time later, however, not to be outdone by the Ukrainian as the World's Strongest Man, Anderson lifted the same weight as Vlasov three times in quick succession, demonstrating unbelievable strength. This feat solidified his position as the most dominant lifter in the world and cemented his legacy as the strongest of the strong.

Paul Anderson, 1957

In 1961, Anderson and his wife Glenda founded the Paul Anderson Youth Home, a home for troubled youth, in Vidalia, Georgia. They both helped to build and support the home with an average of 500 speaking engagements and strength exhibitions per year—notwithstanding the congenital chronic kidney disease that eventually killed him at age 61. He would perform stunts such as hammering a nail with his bare fist and raising a table loaded with eight men onto his back.

The Guinness Book of World Records (1985 edition) lists his feat of lifting 6,270 lb (2,840 kg) in a back lift as "the greatest weight ever raised by a human being".[11] Anderson turned professional after the 1956 Summer Olympics, and thus many of his feats of strength, while generally credible, were not done under rigorous enough conditions to be official. In fact, the controversy surrounding the figure in the 1985 Guinness Book led to its withdrawal in subsequent editions;[13] the currently listed Guinness record is 5,340 lbs, set by Gregg Ernst in 1993.[14]

Personal life

In 1960, Anderson married Glenda Garland. The couple were devout Christians. They had one daughter, named Paula, born in 1966.

While competing, Anderson weighed 275–370 lb (125–168 kg)[15] and was 5 feet 10.5 inches (1.79 m)[16] tall or less.

Death

As a child, Anderson suffered from Bright's disease (now known as chronic nephritis), a kidney disorder, and he eventually died from kidney disease on August 15, 1994, at the age of 61.