St. Louis
1. Historian Stanley Kimball dubbed St.
Louis as being what?
A) The most important non-Mormon city
B) The most unsafe city for a Mormon
C) The Salt Lake City of the Midwest
D) Heaven
2. When was a Stake first announced for
St. Louis?
A) 1838
B) 1854
C) 1901
D) 1959
3. Erastus Snow said that the Saints in
St. Louis have more of this than any other city in the world. What is it?
A) Money
B) Persecution
C) Respect
D) Understanding of gospel principles
4. In 1855, how many presidents of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were there?
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 5
5. How many wards were created in St.
Louis in the mid 1850’s?
A) None, there was only enough for a
branch
B) 6
C) 1
D) 4
Yesterday’s answer:
(D)
High Priest and Seventies
On
March 23, 1942, the First Presidency announced that for the duration of World
War II only older men who had been ordained high priests and seventies would be
called on full-time missions.
Dew,
Sheri L., Go Forward With Faith (Salt
Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1996), 126.
Additional
interesting information:
During World War II, in Salt Lake City the
First Presidency closely monitored the mounting crisis and soon ordered the
evacuation of all missionaries from Europe. Most missionaries crossed the
Atlantic Ocean on cargo ships
with makeshift accommodations for several
hundred passengers each. Typically, these ship’s holds were filled with bunks,
with only a curtain separating the men’s and women’s areas. President J. Reuben
Clark, Jr., regarded the successful evacuation of missionaries as truly
miraculous:
“The entire group was evacuated from Europe in three months, at a time
when tens of thousands of Americans were besieging the ticket offices of the
great steamship companies for passage, and the Elders had no reservations.
Every time a group was ready to embark there was available the necessary space,
even though efforts to reserve space a few hours before had failed. . . .
“Truly the blessings of the Lord attended this great enterprise.”
In Conference Report, April 1940, pg. 20.
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