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PRIESTHOOD
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1875 May - Orson receives the Aaronic Priesthood office of Deacon
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- Elder
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1885 Spring - Orson ordained a Seventy
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1901 - (probably ordained a High Priest (when called to be Bishop)
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1901- 1907 Bishop in Colonia Morelos
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1907 - 1912 Member of the Stake High Council in Colonia Dublán
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1922, May 7 - excommunicated for unchastity
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1925 March 26 - Orson is re-baptized into the Mormon Church by Bishop Arwell Pierce.
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1927 - Orson is called to preside over the Mexican Branch as Branch President in Colonia Dublán.
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1930 April (11) - Instructed by President Heber J. Grant to confer upon Orson all his former blessings, 1st Presidency Counselor Anthony Ivins resealed his wives to him and their 27 children.
Reconfirmed High Priest 11 Apr 1930 by Pres. Anthony W. Ivins
After this (1946?), Orson's fourth wife Eliza Skousen went to the Temple to renew her marriage vows to Orson.
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February 28, 1931- March 24, 1945 Branch President of Colonia Dublán Mexican Branch.
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1941 may have been re-endowed in SLC when Angela was endowed
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1968 January 20 - Orson sealed by proxy to fifth wife Angela Gabaldón.
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CHURCH CALLINGS
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c.1887- Orson answered call by Apostle Moses Thatcher to help establish and settle the Mormon colonies in Mexico.
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1888 - Orson called to be a Church rural police officer to catch cattle thieves. Served in this capacity for many years.
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1891 September - Orson teaching Sunday School
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1901 February - Orson installed as the first Bishop of Colonia Morelos. Alexander Jameson and Lorenzo Snow Huish were his two counselors. John Huber was ward clerk. Released in 1906.
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c.1887- Orson answered call by Apostle Moses Thatcher to help establish and settle the Mormon colonies in Mexico.
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1888 - Orson called to be a Church rural police officer to catch cattle thieves. Served in this capacity for many years.
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1907 - called to be a member of the Stake High Council in Colonia Dublán.
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1911 December The ward and stake leaders of the Colonies made a strategic decision that in order to protect themselves they would purchase high-powered rifles and ammunition. It was unanimously decided that Orson P. Pratt should be detailed to complete this business.
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POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS
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c.1905 Orson, on the train from Kansas City to El Paso has an experience that leads him to suggest at a Stake Conference that Mormon missionaries not dress like other ministers. Pres. John Henry Smith, Chairman of the Missionary Committee, takes the suggestion to SLC. From then on Mormon missionaries are to wear suits instead of long tailed coats.
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PREMONITIONS/VISIONS/ MANIFESTATIONS
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c.1901 - Orson has premonition that Heber J. Grant will be the next Church President.
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1902 July - Orson has a manifestation of his mother telling him he will not die until he is 83.
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1903 July - sees the flooding of the Bavispe River which occurred in 1905.
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1903 July - Orson is caught in a storm, takes cover under a large walnut tree. A voice tells him to get out from under the tree. He obeys and the tree is struck by lightening.
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Another time Orson saw a huge storm cloud, within it a man in white stepped out. He had a small white beard and his hair hung down to his shoulder. He kneeled down on one knee and twelve little girls apparently eight or ten years old, circled around him like a scroll.
Then he stood up and said to me, "Unless you can become as these little ones here, you can't come into my father's kingdom."
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1910 - Orson dreams that Mexican revolutionaries were going to drive the Mormon colonists out of Mexico.
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- Orson sees his mother and heaven in a vision.
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c.1930 - Orson sees his mother Phoebe in heaven
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ORSON PRATT BROWN: Callings
