Adult Conversation

As the “pioneer children sang as they walked and walked and walked,” what were the adults conversing about on the trail west?

a.      Who got to choose the first house lot after Brigham

b.      Planning the party when they entered the valley

c.       Setting up the ward organization

d.      Deep and heavy doctrine

Yesterday’s answer:

B)   Converts

The New York Commercial Advertizer makes the absurd claim that Mormon “Missionaries were paid by the head for their converts, a meager $4 for a male, but up to $60 for a girl over 16 whom they could and did place in polygamy.”

Milton R. Merrill “Reed Smoot, Apostle in Politics,” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1950, p. 45.