Tag Archive: church history

Helping the Martin Handcart Company across the Sweetwater River by Clark Kelley Price

On 28 July 1856 a handcart company under the leadership of Edward Martin left Iowa City, Iowa, and started across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. By October, cold weather and snow caught them in the mountains in central Wyoming. Short on food and other supplies, members of the company experienced exposure to cold, hunger, and exhaustion, and some began to die. They would suffer more losses than any…
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Old Testament Walk-Through

I was given a copy of the Old Testament Walk Through handout several months back by a friend for use in my Seminary class. I have no idea how to do this, but I think that it’s a method of learning the history of the Bible with hand motions and little rhymes. Old Testament Walk Through was prepared for the CES Teaching Fair on the Old Testament, 13-15 August 1991,…
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Joseph Smith Jeopardy Game

Played just like the TV game show Jeopardy, this game is a fun way for kids and adults to test their knowldge by stating the questions that go with the answers to questions about Church History. Available in PDF or Microsoft Word’s .doc format. You may want to use my CTR Trvia games and rules to see how this game is set up and played. Source: lds-youngwomen2 Yahoo Group Files…
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Four Missionaries to the Lamanites by Robert T Barrett

D&C 32 And I myself will go with them and be in their midst; and I am their advocate with the Father, and nothing shall prevail against them. D&C 32:3 The Lord directs the missionary work of His Church. He calls men and women to bring His gospel, sometimes under difficult conditions, to all His children throughout the earth. In October 1830, just a few months after The Church of…
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Apostle Orson Hyde Dedicates the Holy Land by Clark Kelley Price

3 Nephi 5:24; D&C 110:11 And as surely as the Lord liveth, will he gather in from the four quarters of the earth all the remnant of the seed of Jacob, who are scattered abroad upon all the face of the earth. 3 Nephi 5:24 During the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple, Joseph Smith prayed fervently for the gathering of Israel. Several days later Moses appeared in the Kirtland…
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Saving the Book of Commandments by Clark Kelley Price

Fifteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Rollins and her thirteen-year-old sister Caroline lived in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, in 1833. At this time, revelations Joseph Smith had received were being printed by William W. Phelps, who had opened a print shop and newspaper office on the upper floor of his home. The printed revelations were to be bound into a book called the Book of Commandments. By July the non-Mormons in the area…
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Melchizedek Priesthood Restoration by Kenneth Riley

D&C 27:1213; D&C 107:8; D&C 128:20; Joseph Smith—History 1:72 Peter, and James, and John … I have sent unto you, by whom I have ordained you and confirmed you to be apostles, and especial witnesses of my name, and bear the keys of your ministry and of the same things which I revealed unto them. D&C 27:12 When Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the…
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