Pioneer Temples
What was the first LDS temple Built and dedicated?
Kirtland 1836
Approximately what year did Moses lead the Israelites out of Egypt?
c. 1290 B.C
Approximately what year did Lehi Leave Jerusalem?
600 B.C.
What day did the first wagons leave Nauvoo and cross the Mississippi?
February 4, 1846
Between 1846 and 1869, how many Mormons traveled West on the Mormon Trail?
Between 60,000 and 70,000
What was the first LDS temple built in Utah
St George 1877
How were the Israelites feed on their journey?
Mana mostly
How long did Lehi and his family journey in the wilderness before arriving at the Ocean
8 years
1 Nephi 17:4
How many men did the government ask to volunteer for what became the Mormon Battalion, which served in the war against Mexico?
500
What was the name of the fund that helped immigrants migrate to Utah?
Perpetual Emigration Fund
What was used to make the outside of Nauvoo temple white?
Crushed up China, donated by members.
How many years were the Israelites in the wilderness?
40 Years
What other Group of people sailed to the Americas, before Lehi that are mentioned in the Book of Mormon?
The Jaredites.
How many wagons made up the first wagon train to reach Utah?
70
The miracle of the gulls, where seagulls came in large flocks to eat the Mormon crickets that were devastating crops in the Salt Lake Valley, occurred in what year?
1848
How long did it take to build the Salt Lake temple?
40 years
How many oxen carried the Tabernacle?
12
What group of people sailed after Lehi and were found by Mosiah?
Mulekites
Omni 1 13-16
How many women began the cross-country voyage with the first wagon train to head to the Salt Lake Valley?
3
Ellen S. Kimball, Harriet Page Decker Young, and Clara Decker Young.
According to an 1859 pioneer guide, what was, "more to be dreaded upon the plains than almost any disaster that can happen"?
Stampede
How many LDS temples were built and in operation, when the Salt Lake temple was dedicated?
3
St George
Manti
Logan
Who led the Israelites into the promised land?
Joshua
How was the family of Lehi Guided to the promised land?
The Liahona
According to the diary of Willard Richards, what did Jim Bridger promise to give Brigham Young for a bushel of corn raised in the Salt Lake basin?
$1,000 dollars
Counting Brigham Young, how many prophets or future prophets crossed the plains?
5
Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow and Joseph F. Smith all crossed the plains. Heber J. Grant, the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born in Salt Lake City in 1856.