Religious service mixed with compassion

I’ve shared blog stories of the early pioneer women and their participation in the laying on of hands. They were strong and caring women, who had to team against the elements to help ensure success of the Mormon settlements while their husbands were on Church missions, the Mormon Battalion, scouting expeditions, or gathering the Saints to the valley.  What else did the pioneer women participate in during these early years?

a.      Baby blessings

b.      Holding the Priesthood

c.       Prayer circles

d.      Ordinations

Yesterday’s answers:

(D)   Dried grasshoppers and crickets

Various alternatives were used to extend the wheat supply. Mixing cane seed with flour made it last longer. The mother of Margaret Warner Williams Wood learned from the Indians to dry roots and greens to grate and mix with flour for bread. Utah’s native peoples often ground crickets and grasshoppers to mix into bread or added sunflower seeds they had gathered.

Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 233.