It's all in the Name: Orrin

Each of our children have meaning behind the name that they were given. They have each been named after an individual that Tyler and I hold great love and respect for. It is interesting to see the personalities of our boys develop and see that they share strong characteristics with the men they have been named after.
Our Orrin is named after, Orrin Porter Rockwell. Tyler and I had read a book about Porter Rockwell and loved everything about him. His love and dedication to the Prophet Joseph Smith and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints is something that we hope Orrin will look to and find strength in. We wanted our little one to have the conviction to God that Old Port had.
What we didn't take into consideration was the other strong characteristics that would come through.
Wikipedia has this to say about Orrin Porter Rockwell:
Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent.
Wow, right. Orrin's personality has been given a whole new light!
But still, even with that said there is still the words of the prophets that offer some peace.
At Porter Rockwell’s funeral, Apostle and future Church President Joseph F. Smith spoke and said the following about Porter –

“They say he was a murderer; if he was he was the friend of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and he was faithful to them, and to his covenants, and he has gone to Heaven and apostates can go to Hell… Porter Rockwell was yesterday afternoon ushered into Heaven clothed with immortality and eternal life, and crowned with all glory which belongs to a departed saint. He has his little faults but Porter’s life on earth, taken altogether, was one worthy of example, and reflected honor upon the church. Through all his trials he had never once forgotten his obligations to his brethren and his God.