Class Member Study Guide: Lesson 15
Doctrine & Covenants 46
Articles of Faith 1:7
Our Heritage:
Pages 42-42: Subheading Battle of the Big Blue, Knight Administration
Pages 47-48: Heading Haun's Mill Massacre, Amanda Smith Revelation
Page 63: Heading The Martyrdom, Prophesy of Dan Jones Mission
Brigham Young described how he sacrificed to respond to the Prophet’s call to gather: “When we arrived in Kirtland [in September 1833], if any man that ever did gather with the Saints was any poorer than I was—it was because he had nothing. … I had two children to take care of—that was all. I was a widower. ‘Brother Brigham, had you any shoes?’ No; not a shoe to my foot, except a pair of borrowed boots. I had no winter clothing, except a homemade coat that I had had three or four years. ‘Any pantaloons?’ No. ‘What did you do? Did you go without?’ No; I borrowed a pair to wear till I could get another pair. I had travelled and preached and given away every dollar of my property. I was worth a little property when I started to preach. … I had traveled and preached until I had nothing left to gather with; but Joseph said: ‘come up;’ and I went up the best I could.
ESTABLISHING ZION IN MISSOURI
At the same time the Saints were striving to build the kingdom of God in Kirtland, Ohio, many members of the Church were undergoing struggles in Jackson County Missouri.
Newel Knight, president of the Colesville Branch, immediately gathered his people.
Emily Coburn related, “We most truly were a band of pilgrims, started out to seek a better country.”1 At Wellsville, Ohio, they boarded a steamboat and, using the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers, traveled to Jackson County, Missouri. The captain of the steamboat said that they “were the most peaceable and quiet emigrants they had ever carried west; ‘no profanity, no bad language, no gambling and no drinking.'"
They were very poor and did not even have tents to protect them from
the elements while building cabins. They were also almost entirely
without farm implements until teams were sent more than 200 miles east
to St. Louis to obtain them.
When the Saints were forced to leave Jackson County, they took temporary settler to the East in Clay County, but were forced to move even further north to Caldwell (Far West, Haun's Mill 30 Oct 1838) and Daviess (Battle of Crooked River/ Gallatin 6 Aug 1838) Counties until Governor Boggs Extermination Order of 27 Oct 1838 forces 8,000 Saints to cross the Missouri and move east to Illinois
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve taught
that gifts of the Spirit
"can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadquacies and repair our imperfections."
Elder
Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve said,
“Spiritual gifts are distributed among the members of the Church, according to their faithfulness, circumstances, natural abilities, duties, and callings; that the whole may be properly instructed, confirmed, perfected, and saved” (Masterful Discourses and Writings of Orson Pratt, comp. N. B. Lundwall [1953], 571).
