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Aerial view of Salt Lake City, Utah

Who was the first individual to preach against gathering to Utah, but rather stay and strengthen the Church in your area, and what was the year?

A)                 Joseph F. Smith 1912

B)                 Wilford Woodruff 1897

C)                 George Q. Cannon 1918

D)                 David O. McKay 1950

                                                                                  

Yesterday’s answer

(C) 20 days

The shaft stone for the Joseph Smith Memorial in Sharon, Vermont is 38 ½ feet long and was cut from a sixty ton block. To move the shaft stone the six miles from the railhead to the site took twenty days.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church History In The Fulness Of Times (Salt Lake City: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1993), 476.