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Salt Lake City Endowment House

 In 1865, immigrant Franz Christian Grundvig saw his wife carried off by the natives while journeying through present day Wyoming. Later, when he went to be sealed to her at the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, what did President Daniel Wells tell him?

a.      That she was dead

b.      To hold off as she was still alive

c.       To go to the natives and they would give her back

d.      Because of the uncertainty (whether she was dead or alive) he couldn’t be sealed to her

Yesterday’s answer:

b.   Eliza R. Snow

Snow [Eliza R.] and other women also helped create organizations for young women and children, organizing the first “Young Ladies’ Department of the Cooperative Retrenchment Association” in 1870 and the first “Primary Association” in 1878 in Farmington. At first, Snow was unofficially esteemed as “President of the Latter-day Saint Women’s Organizations,” until the three organizations—Relief Society, primary, and the Young Ladies Nation Mutual Improvement Association (now Young Women)—were clearly distinguished under separate presidencies in 1880. Each of these had been led and managed by women ever since.

Plewe, Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 102.