Monday, March 17, 2014

Doing the Work of a Horse

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Pioneer George Theobald remembered when he was young that his dad did “the work of a horse.” What was his dad doing?

a.      Working very hard

b.      Pulling wagons

c.       Giving piggy back rides

d.      Pulling the plow

Yesterday’s answer:

d.   11 times

In the meantime the Prophet Joseph and other brethren were betrayed by apostates, threatened with death and cast into prison. During this period the coming Prophet, Brigham Young, was industrious and improving the land, and laboring diligently in the duties of this Apostleship, especially in preparing and planning for the exodus of the Saints from Missouri under the cruel order of extermination issued by Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs. In this exodus Brigham Young exemplified those gifts of organization and pioneering, which Providence destined him so thoroughly to amplify in the great exodus of the Latter-day Saints a decade later. Brigham Young not only directed, but worked as hard in a practical way as those over whom he was called at this critical juncture temporarily to preside. He left his own family no less than eleven times to return with teams to bring up the poor and helpless. With President Heber C. Kimball he had entered into this covenant, that they would not cease their efforts until all who would should be delivered from Missouri and safely harbored in a more hospitable State. This covenant they most faithfully kept.

Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1901), 10.

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