Men, Beware!

In her journal, spunky Louisa Pratt states that the women tired fast of the men doing what on the trail west?

a.      Chewing and spitting tobacco

b.      Leaving their laundry on the wagon floor

c.       Turning their socks inside out

d.      Calling for evening prayer and then visiting, while they left the women waiting

 

Yesterday’s answer:

 (C)   Return to her native Wales

In October 1854, at a time when living in Utah promised little more than hard work and hunger, Ann’s [Ann Burt] husband decided to leave the company of the Saints for California. When Ann, who was pregnant at the time, refused to accompany him, he promptly sold the house she was living in and left. At this critical point, Ann received a letter from a wealthy, childless uncle living in her native land of Wales, a place she loved and missed so much that her every attempt to sing “Home Sweet Home” ended in tears. In his letter, Ann’s uncle informed her that if she would return to Wales, he would make her the sole heir of his extensive wealth and property. Homeless and homesick, without a husband, destitute, and expecting a baby, Ann nevertheless refused the offer. Her brief explanation for so doing, written shortly after her husband left, should be considered a classic among the early Saints’ statements of faith. “He wanted me to accompany him,” she recorded in her diary, “but I could not think of it. It may be better there in a way, but we have come here for the Gospel’s sake, and here I intend to stay and weather it our with the rest of the Saints.”

 Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 134.