Not all Things were built as Planned

Partially finished Salt Lake Temple

The original architectural drawing of any major undertaking does not always look the same after the project is completed. Decisions are made during the process that can change the look of the building. The same is true of the Salt Lake Temple.

The original architectural plans of the Salt Lake Temple called for two of what?

     a.      Two John the Revelator angels, as in "I saw another angel fly" (identical to the one on the Nauvoo temple) to be placed on the middle spire on both the west and east side of the temple.

     b.      Two angel Moroni statues placed on both the west and east side of the temple

     c.       Strobe lights on both the middle towers of the temple at the east and west end

     d.      Two “Holiness to the Lord’s” plaques on the west and east side of the temple

Yesterday’s answer:

     a.      Charles Shumway

Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow, who had been sent ahead of the main pioneer company to scout a final approach to the Great Salt Lake Valley, emerged from the mouth of a narrow canyon on 21 July 1847 and became the first Latter-day Saints to set foot in their new land of promise. Upon viewing the valley for the first time, both men instinctively shouted, “Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!” and threw their hats into the sky.

   Incidentally, Charles Shumway and his son, Andrew, arrived on 22 July—a day after Pratt and Snow and two days before Brigham Young. One year, five months, and eighteen days had passed since Shumway and his family had stood in the chilly morning air at the foot of Parley’s Street in Nauvoo with the first wagon that would cross the Mississippi River to begin the movement west.

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel,  Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 43.