It Was Less Costly and More Efficient Than the Handcarts

The Church has always looked at different ways for improving current programs. The same could be said for the migration to the Salt Lake Valley. The Church was always looking for ways to improved and at the same time reduce the cost for bring Saints to Zion.

As cheap as the handcarts were, what became even more cost effective and more efficient than the handcarts?

<     a.      For all to buy their own oxen and wagons

<     b.      Handcarts without the accompanying oxen and wagon to carry supplies

<     c.       The Down and Back trains

<     d.      Walking with back packs only

Yesterday’s answers:

<     1.      B.   100 LDS students

By the 1950s, the Church had a policy to create a full institute (with a building and a full-time instructor) whenever a university had more than 100 active member students, but they also began establishing smaller institutes elsewhere, with classes taught by local members or missionary couples.

Plewe, Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 140.

     2.      D.   Building mission

In the 1950s, the need for new meetinghouses and schools was particularly great in the Pacific Islands, Australia, and Europe. In 1953, the Building Missionary Program was organized in these areas. Members with construction skills were called to supervise young building missionaries and other local volunteers, who gained valuable job skills as well as serving in the Church. More than 2,000 buildings were constructed in this program before its last projects were completed in 1969, including a few in Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Canada. Building missionaries also assisted in constructing the New Zealand Temple. In 2012, the Church is beginning to experiment with the concept again in Africa.

Plewe, Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 163.