Missionary Cards

I haven’t seen missionary cards used for a number of years, however, in my days as a missionary (1977-1979) they were very popular among the missionaries. The card was complete with mission address, the elder’s home address, and either a picture of a temple or an artist’s rendition of a Book of Mormon scene. On the back of the card was the Thirteen Articles of Faith. When did these cards first appear among Mormon missionaries?

a.      1945

b.      1911

c.       1852

d.      1876

Yesterday’s answer:

(D)   Called them on missions

During the winter of 1855-56, Brigham Young couldn’t help but notice all the men hanging around the council house watching court or just idling away their time. Brigham Young sent his clerk Thomas Bullock “to take their names, for the purpose of giving them missions, if they had not anything to do of any more importance.”  A number of mission calls were made from the names taken. President Heber C. Kimball selected thirty men to go to Las Vegas, forty-eight to Fort Bridger and Fort Supply, and thirty-five to go to Fort Lemhi . . . and some to the East Indies.

Letter from Heber C. Kimball to his son William, in “Foreign Correspondence,” Millennial Star, 21 June 1856, p. 397.