Having not fulfilled their mission

On November 29, 1855 a special evening was held to welcome home missionaries. Part of this evening included a dance. I imagine Jedediah M. Grant must have raised a few eyebrows when he stated what at the beginning of the evening?

a.      That he would not consider the missionaries fulfilling their mission if they did not participate in the dance

b.      That he would not consider the missionaries fulfilling their mission if they did not keep arm’s length from the opposite sex

c.       That he would not consider the missionaries fulfilling their mission if they did not share their testimony in the language of their mission

d.      That he would not consider the missionaries fulfilling their mission if they did not give away at least one pass along card at the event

Yesterday’s answer:

D.   Paper sacks

John Broberg, from Sweden writes the following about his family:

“My parents moved to Jonkoping, a city that [lies] on the Coast of Vitren, a small lake. My father was a machinist employed in a paper factory. My mother and sisters at home kept busy making paper sacks by hand. These were made from the paper father brought home. The money from these sacks was saved to send us to America. My sister Sophia Olund was the first to emigrate. . . . My sister Minnie Peterson came next. Then Annie, then Ernest. My brother Robert and I were the last of the children to come to America. Our mother came next and father last of all.”

It was not uncommon for families to send one individual to Zion at a time until all made their way. Eva Broberg finally left Sweden with a group of Saints bound for England. They departed from Liverpool on the S.S. Wyoming on 7 June 1890, arriving in Utah shortly thereafter. Eva’s husband, the last member of the family to leave their native land, departed with fifty-eight other Swedish Saints on 16 April 1891 for Hull, England. The company departed from Liverpool on 25 April 1891 on the S. S. Nevada. Finally, the family was reunited in Utah to begin a new life in Zion.

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, Their Faces Toward Zion (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996), 188.