He Joined the Church Because of his Dog

 

John McDaniel states that it was his dog that was the motivation to join the Church. What did his dog do?

a.      His dog bit a Mormon elder and while wrapping the wound the elder taught John, causing him to join the Church

b.      His dog, normally vicious, would not bark at the Mormon missionaries

c.       His dog was digging through a trash can and brought an old Book of Mormon to John

d.      Like Balaam’s donkey in the Old Testament, spoke to John and told him to listen to the missionaries

Yesterday’s answer:

c.   She saved Elder Young from the mob while on his mission to England

Elder John R. Young records the following event during his mission to England:

At Michael, Dean Hill, in the Bristol conference, lived a family by the name of Burris. The family consisted of a father and mother, a son Absalom, nineteen; Emma, seven; and Kissy [Kezia], three years of age. . . . The home had been a home for our elders for twenty years. When I was there, the elders had been mobbed so much that open-air meetings had been discontinued. President Joseph F. Smith wrote me to persist in holding them; but the Saints refused to accompany me, so I went it alone. Only little Emma Burris went with me, and several times I felt that all that kept the mob from doing violence to me was the presence of that innocent little girl clinging so trustingly to me, and I loved her for it.

John R. Young, Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer 1847 (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1920), 237-38.