She Was Also a Witness

Lucy Mack Smith

What did Joseph show his mother, Lucy Mack Smith?

 a.      The Gold Plates

b.      The breast plate and Urim and Thummim

c.       Laban’s sword

d.      The Liahona

Yesterday’s answer:

b.   Build the family a cabin

The settlers at Mayfield, Sanpete County, joined to defeat an incursion of cattlemen. Although the local Anderson family had already “taken up” the strategic land at the mouth of a local canyon, they had not “proved” their homestead rights by building a cabin on the site and living there. Hoping to exploit this oversight, the cattlemen began to construct a cabin and warned the villagers that the uplands were no longer available for use. Within a day, the local settlers began and finished a cabin, and a Mormon family slept in it that night. The Andersons retained the land because the “town gave their support.”

 Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 60.