Sending a Message

It isn’t quite the same as it is today. Pioneers had to have each other’s back just to survive. What did the town’s people of Mayfield, Utah do to retain the Anderson family when cattlemen tried to force the family from their land?

 a.      Give a benefit concert

b.      Build the family a cabin

c.       Take up arms against the cattlemen

d.      Bought the cattlemen out of their land

Yesterday’s answer:

D)   Gardening

Joseph’s dynamic personality drew people to him. William Henrie wrote, “You could not be in his presence without feeling the influence and Spirit of God, which seemed to flow from him almost as heat does from a stove.” Emma later recalled of her prophet husband, “I never wanted him to go into the garden to work, for if he did, it would not be fifteen minutes before there would be three or four, or sometimes a half dozen men round him and they would tramp down the ground faster then he could hoe it up.”

Orton, Chad M. and William W. Slaughter, Joseph Smith’s America (Salt Lake City: Deseret Books, 2005), 189.