Journey of the Saints
Building of Nauvoo
Temple Symbols
Temple Ordinances & Covenants
Fun facts
100

Nauvoo was originally called? 

What is "Commerce, IL"

100

The year the Nauvoo City Charter was granted.

What is 1840?

100

What do the red, white, and blue stars symbolize?

Celestial, Terrestrial, Telestial kingdoms

100

Which ordinance symbolizes cleansing and preparation?

Washing and Anointing

100

Where and when was baptism for the dead first performed?

Mississippi River, Nauvoo, 1840

200

The word "Nauvoo" means this. 

What is beautiful?

200

These two organizations were established in Nauvoo. 

What is the Relief Society (1842) and the Youth Organization (1843)?

200

Why are the stars inverted?

Heaven reaching down / Light of Christ descending

200

What is the purpose of the Endowment?

Receive power, knowledge, and covenants to return to God

200

More people will be baptized when they are _____ than when they are _____.

Dead / Alive

300

This event(s) forced the Saints to flee Missouri.

What is the mobs or extermination order?

300

She was the first Relief Society President.

Who is Emma Smith? 

300

What does the Sun Stone represent?

Celestial glory / Christ as the Light and Life of the world

300

What is the purpose of the Sealing ordinance?

Bind families together for eternity

300

How does baptism for the dead show God’s fairness?

Everyone has a chance to accept the gospel

400

Joseph Smith prophesied that he had this many years left to live after he left the Liberty Jail. 

What is 5 years?

400

What physical transformation did the Saints accomplish in Nauvoo?

Drained swamps and built a thriving temple city

400

Why do temple symbols ascend vertically from star → moon → sun?

They represent our eternal progression toward God

400

Who said, “Your endowment is to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels”?

Brigham Young

400

According to Joseph Smith, what constitutes hell?

The torment of disappointment and separation from God

500

Name one healing miracle Joseph performed in Nauvoo. 

What is Elijah Fordham / Henry Sherwood / Wilford Woodruff’s handkerchief story?

500

How does the transformation of Nauvoo mirror the gospel?

The Lord can turn something barren into something beautiful — He can transform our lives

500

How does temple cosmology teach about the plan of salvation?

It shows the order of heaven and our relationship to God and His creation

500

How are temple ordinances like a spider web?

They connect the human family into one eternal network of relationships

500

What’s the difference between salvation and exaltation?

Salvation = saved from sin and death; Exaltation = eternal life with God as families

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