Sunday, July 20, 2014

Flying His Kite

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One day a stranger walked into Nauvoo interested in finding the Prophet. The stranger noticed Charles Stoddard getting ready to fly his kite and so asked Charles where he could find Joseph Smith. What was Charles response?

a.      “I don’t know”

b.      “Go fly a kite (basically, stop bothering me)”

c.       “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

d.      “He’s gone to heaven and I’m sending him his dinner”

Yesterday’s answer:

False

Five months after the organization of the Thirteenth Ward (July 1849), its members gathered with Saints from the other Salt Lake City wards at the recently built “Bowery” on Salt Lake City’s Temple Square to celebrate their coming to Utah. The firing of cannon, toasts, speeches, hosanna shouts, and a mix of anger and humor-like, community wide “deathly groans” to mark the Saints’ past persecutions were all included in the days celebration.

Historical Record, 5 July 1849, Tenth Ward Papers, LDS Archives

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