Brigham Young
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What did Brigham Young prophesy in 1859 that happened?
a.
The Saints will
become a strong people in the Rocky Mountains
b.
The Book of
Mormon would cover the world
c.
A murderer that escaped
the law in Utah would die
d.
The United Order
would not last
Yesterday’s
answer:
A.
One
Early converts Samuel Bjarnason and his wife, Margret
Gisladotti, along with a woman named Helga Jonsdottir, left the Westman Islands
[Iceland] in 1854 for Liverpool. On January 7, 1855, they embarked on the ship James Nesmith and eventually arrived in
the Salt Lake Valley on September 7, 1855. Upon their arrival, President
Brigham Young directed them to settle in Spanish Fork, which had just been
incorporated as a town that same year.
Samuel, Margret, and Helga were not only the first
Latter-day Saint Icelanders to gather to Utah, but also the first known
Icelanders to immigrate to America. The immigration of these first three Saints
paved the way for others to follow. It is estimated that nearly 400 Icelanders
immigrated to Utah between 1854-1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War
I.
Though Elder Lorentzen had organized a branch in
Iceland in 1853, nearly all the members had left for the United States. In
fact, when Byron Ceslison—a Spanish Fork-born, full-blooded Icelander—and his
wife and twin boys traveled to Iceland in 1975 as missionaries, they found only
one fully active member in the area.
Fred E. Woods and Jake Healey, The Church in Iceland, LDS Living, Jan/Feb 2016, 63.
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