Kirtland Temple
Nauvoo Temple
Salt Lake Temple
People Who Made Sacrifices
Temple Trivia
100
After working long days to build the temple, the men had to sleep outside the temple to prevent this from happening.
What is mobs destroying the temple?
100
Any extra of this was given to the hard-working men who were working hard to build the temple. Sometimes families were asked to give all they had.
What is food?
100
The pioneers did not have a lot of money, but because the prophet asked them to help build the temple, they continued to pay this?
What is tithing?
100
John Rowe Moyle was a convert to the Church who left his home in England and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as part of a handcart company. Due to an accident on the farm, his leg was injured and then amputated; However, he didn't stop working on the temple. Using a painful prosthetic, e walked 22 miles every week to the SLC Temple site. His hands carved these words above the entrance of the temple that stand today as a golden marker to all who visit the Salt Lake Temple.
What is "Holiness to the Lord"?
100
The approximate number of currently operating temples.
What is 150.
200
To make the temple sparkle with beauty, the prophet asked the women to give up these, which were smashed into tiny pieces.
What are dishes?
200
The pioneers did not have a lot of money, but the Relief Society asked each sister to donate this coin each week.
What is a penny? Note: They donated 50,000 pennies=$500. That was a lot of money back then.
200
The number of years it took the pioneers to build the Salt Lake Temple.
What is 40?
200
Benjamin Woodbury Driggs gave up this brand new toy that he received for his birthday. The temple workers used it to transport tools around the work site.
What is a wagon?
200
This temple is the largest LDS temple.
What is the Salt Lake City temple?
300
On top of running their farms and their other jobs, every able man & boy was asked to work on the temple as often as they could ... at least one day in this many.
What is ten? Hint: Just like tithing.
300
Children were also asked to make sacrifices to build temples. Sometimes they were asked to donate these precious items that belonged to them.
What are toys?
300
The stones for the Salt Lake Temple were cut from granite in Little Cottonwood Canyon, which was 33 miles away. They were put onto carts and oxen pulled them back to the temple site. Sometimes it took this many days for one stone to make it back to the temple. It was very hard.
What is 4? Note: The last few years, the railroad was in place so they could move the stones a lot quicker.
300
John Nicoll worked for two years cutting stone in the quarry. His pay came only in the form of this.
What is food for his family?
300
The year the Nauvoo temple was rebuilt?
What is 2002?
400
Women worked all day to make clothes for the workers, in addition to all the curtains for the temple, using this skill.
What is sewing? Note: Often times they would go without new clothes so that the men would have the clothes they needed.
400
The Nauvoo Temple was dedicated on April 30, 1846. This tragic event happened less than 2 years after this dedication took place.
What is destroyed by fire? Note: Arsonists set fire to the building on October 9, 1848. However,
400
During the Utah War, this part of the temple was buried and the lot the temple was built on was made to look like a plowed field. This was done to prevent unwanted attention from the federal troops.
What is the foundation? Note: Once work on the temple finally resumed, it was discovered that many of the foundation stones had cracked. Several of the stones had to be replaced.
400
Margaret Shelton Kinsey, as a teenager in the 1880s, had none of this to contribute to the project so she collected patches of wool that sheep left behind on twigs and barbed-wire fences, formed the wool into small balls and then sold the wool for money that she contributed to the building of the temple.
What is money? Note: Years later she would tell her grandchildren that in her own way, she had helped pay for the temple.
400
This temple had numerous dedications to allow the Saints to utilize the different parts of the temple for ordinances as it was being built.
What is the Nauvoo temple?
500
The original plan was to build the temple out of this instead of stone.
What is logs? Note: Joseph Smith said in response: "Shall we, brethern, build a house for our God, of logs? No, I have a better plan that that. I have a plan of the house of the Lord, given by Himself; and you will soon see by this, the difference between our calculations and His idea of things."
500
The number of saints who received their temple ordinances before having to leave their beloved temple behind.
What is 5,600? Note: These ordinances took place during the eight week period between the time the attic portion of the temple was dedicated and the time they had to leave.
500
The weight of the granite stones used to construct the temple were anywhere from 2,500 pounds to this many pounds.
What is 5,600 pounds?
500
The first temple built in this dispensation.
What is the Kirtland Temple?
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