TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY: October

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1835 - The Prophet Joseph spent the day at home. He entertained a number of people who came to see the ancient Egyptian records he was translating. (History of the Church, 2:290)

1840 - The Prophet Joseph writes a letter to the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, reproving them for the neglect of their brethren during the Missouri persecutions. He also encourages them to repent and the Lord will bless them as they build the kingdom in that area. The Prophet also writes a letter to the Twelve Apostles in England telling them to return in the Spring. Also, that a temple is being built in Nauvoo and that it is growing in population. He discourses on the power of love, being one of the characteristics of Deity, and other subjects. (History of the Church, 4:225-226)

1843 - The Prophet Joseph, accompanied by William Clayton, leaves Nauvoo about noon and travels to Macedonia, (now Webster), Illinois, arriving about sundown at the home of Benjamin F. Johnson where he spends the night.

1845 - After publically coming out against the leadership of the Twelve Apostles, William Smith was excommunicated from the Church.

1856 - The Martin handcart company encounters its first major winter storm at Red Buttes near present day Casper, Wyoming.

1947 - The first stake in South Carolina is organized.

1971 - The Genesis Branch (also known as the Genesis Group) is organized in Salt Lake City, Utah, for African-American members of the Church.

1975 - The first missionaries enter the Republic of Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean.

1984 - The Dallas Texas Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency.

1999 - The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) signs an affiliation agreement with Brigham Young University making it officially part of the University.

[Elphaba]

1838 - Saints continued to flee to Adam-ondi-Ahman for safety, including Agnes Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith's brother, Don Carlos. Her home had been plundered and burned and she had to travel three miles carrying two babies to reach safety. Her husband was on a mission in Tennesse. General Parks of the Missouri Militia was in Adam-ondi-Ahman and ordered a Latter-day Saint group to "put the mob down." The mob, learning of the approaching force, fled the area. They began to remove belongings from their own homes and then burned them down, blaming it on the Mormons, declaring to the authorities that "the Mormons were burning and destroying all before them."

Actually, the Saints were removing belongings from gentiles' homes and burning them down. It is estimated they burned about 50 buildings down. The rationale was that the mobs had already stolen so much from them they needed provisions to feed and clothe the Saints who were in dire straights.

The mobs probably did burn a few buildings down and blame it on the Mormons as well.

The Saints put the belongings they had stolen in the bishops warehouse. However, the law officers (can't remember what they were actually called), took all of the belongings back.

Conversely, the law made no efforts whatsoever to give all of the Saints' belongings back that had been stolen from them.

Elphaba

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1833 - Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon preached in the morning and evening to attentive congregations in Brantford, Upper Canada. (History of the Church, 1:421)

1834 - The Prophet Joseph Smith and those traveling with him-Hyrum smith, David Whitmer, Frederick G. Williams, Oliver Cowdery, and Roger Orton- arrive in Pontiac, Michigan, to meet with the Saints and preach the gospel in that area. (History of the Church, 2:168)

1843 - The Prophet Joseph, staying in the home of Benjamin F. Johnson in Macedonia, (now Webster), Illinois, gave instructions to Brother Johnson and his family concerning the blessings of the everlasting covenant of marriage and the sealings of the Priesthood. One of the first records of this doctrine in the Church. (History of the Church, 6:60.)

1862 - Colonel Patrick E. Conner and his "California Volunteers" march into Salt Lake City, Utah, and set up camp on the bench above the city near present day University of Utah. President Abraham Lincoln had received reports that the Saints were incapable of guarding the overland mail route through the Intermountain West and had sent Conner, an avowed anti-Mormon, with his soldiers, to perform this duty.

1979 - The first branch of the Church is organized on the Carribean island of Barbados.

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1830 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives the revelation known as Doctrine and Covenants 33 in behalf of Ezra Thayne and Northrop Sweet. The revelation confirms the importance of missionary work, the Church was established by the Lord, faith in the Lord is necessary to be saved, and that the scriptures are given for instruction. (History of the Church, 1:126-127)

1848 - Oliver Cowdery attends the conference of the Church held at Kanesville, Iowa, and recounts his involvement with the Prophet Joseph Smith and the founding of the Church. He bears testimony of the Book of Mormon and of the leadership of the Twelve Apostles following the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Having been excommunicated in April 1838, this was the first time he had spoken to a Latter-day Saint congregation in over ten years. He is rebaptized nine days later.

1855 - The first branch of the Church in Germany is organized in Dresden.

1878 - The early Mexican Church leader, Rafael Monroy, is born in Octopam, Mexico. He was martyred during the Mexican Revolution (1915) for refusing to deny his testimony of the Gospel.

1961 - The first branch of the Church in the South Pacific nation of New Caledonia is organized.

1979 - The Osaka Family are baptized, the first African converts in Kenya.

2005 - President Thomas S. Monson of the First Presidency, speaks at the devotional assembly during Brigham Young University-Hawaii's 50th anniversary.

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1833 - The Prophet Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon left Mount Pleasant begin to travel to the village of Colburn, Canada.

1838 - With the mob in Daviess County, Missouri, dispersing, the Prophet Joseph returned to Far West only to find that the mob was now attacking Saints in Caldwell County. He learned that some Saints had been taken prisoners and some homes had been burned. Instead of returning and finding a growing peaceful situation, it appeared the situation of the Saints was worsening.

1843 - The Prophet Joseph Smith held a small Church service in his home at Nauvoo. Apostles Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and George A. Smith returned from their missions to the Eastern States. Elders Daniel Spencer and Bradford Elliot also returned from their missions, "and quite a respectable number of Saints came in their company" gathering with the Saints in the Nauvoo, Illinois.

1845 - Two brethren charged with the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press were tried before Judge Purple. Jesse P. Harmon and John Lytle, who were charged with the destruction of the press, were policemen acting under direction of the Nauvoo City Council when the press was destroyed. The prosecution witness could not positively identify the men were involved and the jury returned with a not guilty verdict. Thus fulfilled the prophecy of the Prophet Joseph that nothing would harm the men involved in the destruction of the press.

1903 - The First Presidency authorizes the purchase of twenty-five acres of the original temple lot in Independence, Missouri, preparing the way for the first Latter-day Saint presence in Jackson County since the Saints expulsion in the early 1830's.

1905 - The first converts in Greece are baptized.

1967 - The annex to the Salt Lake Temple is dedicated by President Hugh B. Brown of the First Presidency.

1968 - The Church receives official recognition status in Spain.

1977 - The first converts in Micronesia are baptized.

1980 - The first branch of the Church in the Caribbean island of Grenadines is organized at Kingstown.

1995 - The first stake of the Church in Papua New Guinea is organized at Port Moresby.

2006 - The Helsinki Finland Temple was dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley.

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1833 - The Prophet Joseph records, "Although it snowed severely, we held a meeting by candle-light . . . and were publicly opposed by a Wesleyan Methodist. He was very tumultuous, but exhibited a great lack of reason, knowledge, and wisdom, and gave us no opportunity to reply" (History of the Church, 1:421-422).

1835 - The Prophet Joseph Smith invited Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Hyrum Smith, John Whitmer, Sidney Rigdon, Samuel H. Smith, Frederick G. Williams, and W. W. Phelps, to his home to unite in prayer, "with one voice, before the Lord," to pray for deliverance from the afflictions and difficulties of the Saints, especially those in Missouri. (History of the Church, 2:291)

1838 - Many Latter-day Saints are gathering to Far West, Missouri, for safety. The city is becoming very crowded. Inflammatory letters about the Saints from non-Mormons are received by the Governor of the State of Missouri. No mail arrived in Far West on this date causing the Prophet Joseph to write that "it is evident there is no deposit sacred to those marauders who are infesting the country and trying to destroy the Saints" (History of the Church, 3:166).

1843 - The Prophet Joseph met with the members of the Twelve who had just returned from their missions and gathered the money donated by the Saints in the East for the building of the Temple in Nauvoo. He immediately "gave directions to send to St. Louis for groceries and different articles necessary for the Temple and the workmen thereon." (History of the Church, 6:60-61)

1903 - Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, officially changes its name to Brigham Young University.

1927 - The Mesa Arizona Temple is dedicated by President Heber J. Grant.

1976 - The first missionaries enter the island nation of Micronesia.

1985 - A new Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, later renamed the Family History Library, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency.

1988 - The first convert in the South American nation of Guyanna is baptized.

1992 - The Bern Switzerland Temple is rededicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency.

1999 - The Detroit Michigan Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley.

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1833 - On their mission to Upper Canada, the Prophet Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon went to Waterford where they spoke to a small congregation and then went to Mount Pleasant where they preached to a large congregation in the evening. Freeman A. Nickerson and his wife asked to be baptized. (History of the Church, 1:422)

1838 - Several apostates went to Richmond, Missouri, to sign an affidavit before justice of the peace against the Prophet Joseph and the Latter-day Saints. Among those who signed affidavits were Thomas Marsh, former President of the Twelve Apostles, and Orson Hyde, a member of that Quorum. Also, upon learning of a mob gathered at Crooked River that were planning on causing problems at Far West, a group of 75 men gathered at the town square and started to march towards Crooked Creek around midnight to catch the mob off guard and scatter them before they could injure anyone. They were led by Elder David W. Patten, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

1841 - Elder Orson Hyde, just as he had seen in a vision, crossed the brook Kedron, climbs the Mount of Olives, and there and dedicates the land of Palestine to the Lord and for the return of the Jews.

1949 - In celebration of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's twentieth year of continuous network broadcasting, Columbia Records releases the choir's first record album, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City, Volume 1.

1979 - The Orson Hyde Memorial Gardens on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Israel, is dedicated by President Spencer W. Kimball.

1986 - The Denver Colorado Temple is dedicated by President Ezra Taft Benson.

1991 - Elder James E. Faust dedicates Kenya for the preaching of the gospel.

1998 - Parley P. Pratt was memorialized with a bronze sculpture and park in Salt Lake City, Utah, that was dedicated by Elder M. Russell Ballard.

1999 - More than 5,000 people crowded onto the site of the original Nauvoo Temple to witness the groundbreaking for the reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple in historic Nauvoo, Illinois, by President Gordon B. Hinckley.

2006 - Approval to create the Howard W. Hunter Chair in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University was announced. An academic chair will be funded by the Hunter Foundation with the goal of raising a large enough endowment to establish and maintain the Hunter Chair and a Center for Mormon Studies at Claremont.

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1831 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives the revelation known as Doctrine and Covenants 66, containing the Lord's instructions to William E. McLellin and the calling of Samuel H. Smith as a missionary. (History of the Church, 1:219-221)

1838 - As the men led by Elder David W. Patten arrived at Crooked River, a shot was fired hitting Patrick O'Banion. Elder Patten then ordered the men to charge down the hill and set up a line. The mob set up a line near the river. Several shots were fired back and forth, the Saints at a disadvantage as they were shooting west into the dark and the mob had the advantage firing east with the rising sun behind the Saints silhouetting them. Elder Patten ordered a charge that resulted in hand-to-hand fighting with swords, causing the mob to flee. As the mob was fleeing, one came from behind a tree and turned, firing a shot that hit Elder Patten, who fell wounded. The Saints gathered up their wounded, numbering about eleven men and returned to Far West. One brother, Gideon Carter, was killed during the fighting, Elder Patten died later that evening at the home of Brother Winchester about three miles from Far West where he had been left as a result of his wounds. The Prophet Joseph, his brother Hyrum, and Lyman Wight, went to meet the brethren on their return and visited with Elder Patten before he died. Young Patrick O'Banion, the first short in the battle, also died during the evening. The totals were three dead and nine wounded in the battle of Crooked River, Missouri, including Elder David W. Patten, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (History of the Church, 3:171-172)

1890 - In the first experiment in weekday religious education for public school students in the United States, the First Presidency directs stake presidents and bishops to hold religion classes after school or on Saturdays in every ward where there is not a Church school.

1893 - United States President Grover Cleveland signs a resolution providing for the return to the Church some of the property confiscated under the anti-polygamy Edmunds-Tucker Act.

1991 - Elder James E. Faust dedicates Zimbabwe for the preaching of the gospel.

1992 - On the Way Home, a Church video production is shown over the Church satellite network as part of a missionary open house held in meetinghouses throughout North America.

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1838 - Fear and uneasiness prevailed in Far West, Missouri, as news of the Battle of Crooked River and the death of Elder David W. Patten spread through the area. Also, in Kirtland, Ohio, Horace Kingsbury wrote a letter on the integrity of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Church agent in Ohio, Oliver Granger, in resolving the "unfinished business of people that have moved to the Far West" (History of the Church, 3:174).

1911 - The first stake mission is organized when sixty-one seventies in the Granite Stake in Salt Lake City, Utah, are called to serve.

1979 - The Church receives property title to the Newel K. Whitney Store in Kirtland, Ohio. At least seventeen recorded revelations were given to the Prophet Joseph Smith at the store including Doctrine and Covenants 89 known as the Word of Wisdom. It was also the location for the first School of the Prophets in 1833. The Prophet Joseph and his wife Emma lived in an apartment at the store for approximately 18 months. The store would receive a rare Presidential Citation for outstanding restoration in 1988.

2006 - The Church announces the launch of a new section on Familysearch.org that will make doing African American genealogy research easier. The announcement came during the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society's (AAHGS) 28th annual conference, held in Salt Lake City. The African American Resources section will provide links to valuable African American genealogical sources.

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1833 - The Prophet Joseph Smith baptizes twelve converts after preaching to a large congregation in Mt. Pleasant, Ontario, Canada. (History of the Church, 1:422)

1835 - The Prophet Joseph records that his brother Samuel's wife was "in a dangerous condition" in childbirth. His brother Don Carlos went to get Dr. Frederick Williams to help. Concerned, the Prophet went into the "field and bowed before the Lord and called upon Him in mighty prayer in her behalf." The Lord told him that "My servant Frederick shall come, and shall have wisdom given him to deal prudently, and my handmaid shall be delivered of a living child, and be spared." About an hour later the Dr. arrived and the Lord's words were fulfilled. The Prophet preached in the school house to a crowded congregation in the evening." (History of the Church, 2:292-293)

1838 - Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs issues the infamous "extermination order" after learning of the encounter between Missouri Militia troops and the Mormon militia at Crooked River on October 25th. The "extermination order" decreed that "The Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state." (History of the Church, 3:175)

1839 - The High Council of Nauvoo voted to have Emma Smith compile a new Hymn Book to be used by the Church. (History of the Church, 4:17-18)

1850 - The first Italian convert to the Church, Jean Antoine Box, is baptized in La Tour, Italy by Elder Lorenzo Snow.

1854 - The first missionaries arrive in New Zealand.

1980 - The Tokyo Japan Temple is dedicated by President Spencer W. Kimball.

1983 - The Papeete Tahiti Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency.

[Guest ceeboo]

Good morning Hemi, how is my favorite cousin ??:):)

What does it mean to " dedicate " a temple by your President???

Thanks and Peace

Carl

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Good morning my brother. In simply terms, to dedicate, means to set aside the building for a special work for the living and the dead, and having FATHER's and the Savior blessing on such a holy house.

I was there with brethren when they dedicated the San Diego Temple and felt that blessing, which President Hinckley minstered. Listening to the words given, President Hinckley explained that a temple stands as "a testimony that . . . life is eternal, that it is everlasting."

"This is a beautiful building. But I would like to emphasize that it is not the architecture of the temple that is significant, nor is its appearance. The significant things about this temple are the ordinances of the gospel that will be administered here." The ordinances, he explained, deal with "the things of eternity."

"There would be no purpose to build temples if there was no immortality," he said. "Life beyond the grave is as real and personal and tangible and actual as it is here."

"Great is your inheritance and marvelous are your blessings," President Hinckley emphasized as he referred to sacred ordinances that are received only in the temple.

"And to here the temple we will come," President Hinckley continued, "and in this place we shall stand before Him and covenant with Him that we will live His law, that we will be His people and He will be our God.

"This is a day of dedication not only of this beautiful house, but also for each of us as we consecrate ourselves more completely for the service of Him who died that we might live and whose cause we serve."

[Guest ceeboo]

Hi again Hemi,

Thanks for the reply :):)

On a side note, Pam ( AKA the cookie mod ) posted a thread a while ago with pictures of LDS Temples. ( It was the first time I had ever seen pictures of them ). They were absolutly marvelous and indeed gorgious structures :))

Do you know how they are paid for ?? I would imagine ( by the pics I saw ) they are enormously expensive to build, gotta be in the millions.

Peace

Carl

[Hemidakota]

It is pre-paid by special donation of those who are temple active members and others who wish to donate. San Diego Temple costs about 21-million dollars.

[Guest ceeboo]

It is pre-paid by special donation of those who are temple active members and others who wish to donate. San Diego Temple costs about 21-million dollars.

WOW !!! 21 million and then you have the continued expense of operation !!!

So does the LDS have a " Vatican, Rome " kinda thing were all the money is monitored and invested?? Or does each Temple run its own ship?? Do some Temples help other Temples if they are stuggling financially??

BTW, when you say pre paid are you saying there is no loan and CASH ( 21 million ) is used

Thanks again

Carl

Edited October 27, 2008 by ceeboo

[Hemidakota]

There is an audit team in the church that constantly monitors expeditures. Even down to the local leadership, they also monitor the same.

There is a Temple Fund that is set aside for temple operations.

No loan Carl. The church learned years ago in not borrowing monies but payout in cash with buying land, building, and so forth.

[Guest ceeboo]

Please forgive my curiosity, as it is simply that and nothing more.:)

When President Monson ( In early Oct at your convention ) spoke of ( I think ) 5 or 6 new Temples in the works. Are you saying the LDS Church has a couple hundred million in cash set aside for these projects?? WOW!!! You all got more cheese than ceeboo:lol:

[Hemidakota]

The land is already been purchased previously. Putting up the funds and sometimes labor force in building the temple will come from the Saints.

As it was with the Diego temple. They already purchased the land and the church was committed in placing a temple there, exactly where President Kimball mentioned it should be. It took the Saints over three years to raise the funds. Then the funds was used to build the temple.

No different from the latest Huntington Beach Temple. The land was purchased years earlier but the funding came from the local Saints. Let you know, this is gotta be the richest area for tithing for the church. LOL

[Canuck Mormon]

I know that the land for the Calgary Temple was purchased at least 20 years ago. In the past 5 years they also build a new chapel on the same site and left enough room for a Temple beside it.

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1833 - In the evening, the Prophet Joseph held a meeting in Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada, where the twelve newly baptized members from the day before, plus two baptized on this date, were confirmed and given the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Prophet records, "The Spirit was given in great power to some, and peace to others" (History of the Church, 1:422).

1838 - With the issue of the extermination order by Governor Boggs the day previous, mobs began to "legally" burn houses of the Saints in the countryside, taking cattle and all they could find. Fields were destroyed, prisoners taken, and death threats came to the Latter-day Saints. A mob-army was gathering at Richmond preparing to march to Far West to fulfill Governor Boggs order to exterminate or drive from Missouri all members of the Church.

1842 - The Prophet Joseph Smith returned to his home in Nauvoo, after being in hiding over the threats from Missouri, to find his wife Emma ill. He rode around town and noted that the workers at the Temple had completed putting down a temporary floor in the Temple so that meetings could be held there. The walls were continuing to rise and he was pleased with the progress being made.

1856 - A group of rescuers from Salt Lake City, Utah, sent to find the handcart companies stranded by snow in the mountains of Wyoming, located the Edward Martin handcart company sixteen miles from the Platte Bridge.

1961 - The first stake is organized in Switzerland.

1984 - The fifteen hundredth stake of the Church, the Ciudad Obregon Mexico Yaqui Stake, is organized.

1993 - A Vietnamese choir, accompanied by the National Vietnamese Symphony Orchestra and under the direction of members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, perform Handel's Messiah in the Hanoi Opera House.

1998 - The BYU Salt Lake Center is dedicated by President Thomas S. Monson of the First Presidency.

2005 - Enterprise Mentors International observes its 15 year anniversary at a dinner where the First Presidency and the Church were honored for their support and contributions to the micro-credit organization that fosters development of small, family-owned businesses in the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Peru. The First Presidency spoke and President Hinckley remarked that the greatest "pandemic" in the world today is poverty and acknowledged the great work of EMI "in reaching out with such a successful and wonderful and widespread program" (Church News, November 5, 2005, p. 3).

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1833 - After a 10:00 am meeting, the Prophet Joseph baptized and confirmed two new members of the Church and then he, and Sidney Rigdon, left Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada, to return to Kirtland, Ohio. (History of the Church, 1:422)

1838 - The mob-army is on the move from Richmond, Missouri, towards Far West. Other groups or mobs continue to harass members of the Church scattered on farms throughout the countryside. General Clark and about 1,000 men were on the march towards Richmond with the Governor's extermination order.

1839 - The Prophet Joseph Smith, accompanied by Sidney Rigdon, Elias Higbee, and Orrin Porter Rockwell, leave Commerce (later Nauvoo), Illinois, for Washington D. C., in a two-horse carriage, to petition the federal government for redress and assistance for being forced from their homes in Missouri the previous year. (History of the Church, 4:19)

1842 - The Prophet gives a discourse to newly arrived citizens of Nauvoo, explaining how to purchase property, etc.. He also records, "I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities" (History of the Church, 5:181).

1845 - Henry G. Sherwood and John S. Fullmer arrived back in Nauvoo, Illinois, after serving a mission gathering information about the west, including the area around Council Bluffs, that would be used by the Saints the next year as they left Nauvoo.

1851 - Governor Brigham Young establishes Fillmore, Millard County, as the new territorial capital of Utah. Named after United States President Millard Fillmore, it was centrally located in Utah.

1964 - United States President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.

1999 - The Temple Square Chorale, the Orchestra at Temple Square, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform in their first joint concert in the Tabernacle.

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1838 - A two hundred man mob attacked the small settlement of Haun's Mill, Missouri, killing seventeen men and boys and wounding fourteen others. The dead included nine-year-old Sarius Smith, son of Warren Smith, who had the upper part of his head blown off from a gun placed against his head. Charles Merrick, also about nine years old, was also among those killed in the massacre. Some of the wounded were also young boys and teens. Also on this date, the Missouri State Militia under the leadership of General Lucas, consisting of approximately twenty-five hundred men, arrives at Far West, Missouri, and camps about a mile outside of the city. Another 1000-1500 man militia, under the command of General Clark, was on its way to Far West with a copy of the extermination order of the Governor. When the Saints in Far West, not yet knowing about the extermination order, were informed of the arrival of the militia outside of town, some eight to nine hundred Saints being preparations to defend the city with wagons, timber, etc. (History of the Church, 3:182-188)

1840 - The first branch of the Church is organized in Wales.

1842 - The Saints had their first meeting on the temporary floor of the Nauvoo Temple. The walls of the Temple were built up about four feet high above the basement.

1955 - President David O. McKay spoke about "the key to happiness in the home and in society" prior to dedicating the San Fernando California Stake Center.

1966 - Vietnam is dedicated for the preaching of the gospel by Elder Gordon B. Hinckley in the city of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.

1978 - The Sao Paulo Brazil Temple is dedicated by President Spencer W. Kimball.

1982 - The Grandin Printing Building in Palmyra, New York, where the Book of Mormon was first printed in 1830, is opened by the Church as a visitors' Center.

1998 - The new 100,000 square foot Deseret Industries facility in Provo, Utah, is dedicated by Bishop Keith McMullin of the Presiding Bishopric. It becomes the largest Deseret Industries facility in the Church.

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1833 - Between forty and fifty armed persons attacked the branch of the Church west of the Big Blue in Jackson County, Missouri. They destroyed ten dwellings and beat several brethren in a brutal manner in front of the women and children. This began the violence that would lead to the Saints being expelled from Jackson County into Northern Missouri.

1834 - Preparations were made on the first floor of the nearly finished printing house for the School of Elders to beheld during the winter months, "wherein they might be more perfectly instructed in the great things of God" (History of the Church, 2:169).

1835 - The Prophet's brother, William, visited Joseph to discuss their differences from a council meeting previously held. William became very angry and stormed out of Joseph's home. In his anger he publicly preached against Joseph in Kirtland. In the evening, Joseph and Emma, along with his brother Don Carlos and others, rode out to the home of Shadrach Roundy in Willoughby and had an enjoyable evening. When he returned to Kirtland he was asked to baptize three people.. Joseph records, "I obtained a testimony that my brother William would return to the Church, and repair the wrong he had done" (History of the Church, 2:296-298).

1838 - The militia-mob outnumbered the defenders of Far West five-to-one. During the night, the families had gathered their belongings fearing a terrible battle on this day. About eight o'clock, the militia sent a flag of truce and Colonel George Hinkle of the Far West Militia went out to meet it. Colonel Hinkle made a secret truce with them to turn the Prophet Joseph and other Church leaders over to them. General Clark and his men arrived at Far West and joined General Lucas's army. The militia-mob now numbered between 3500-4000 men surrounding the City of Far West. Towards evening, Colonel Hinkle requested the Prophet Joseph to accompany him to meet with the officers of the militia to work out a truce. The Prophet Joseph, along with Sidney Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt, and others, then accompanied Colonel Hinkle to the camp of the militia. Upon arriving, they were put in chains and arrested as prisoners of war. The men were then insulted, tormented, and threatened by men in the militia-mob. The Prophet records that, "In the evening we had to lie down on the cold ground, surrounded by a strong guard, who were only kept back by the power of God from depriving us of life" (History of the Church, 3:190).

1839 - The Prophet Joseph Smith and others stayed in Quincy, Illinois, on this date as they prepared the necessary papers to take with them to Washington D.C. to seek redress for the wrongs of the previous year in Missouri.

1841 - Hyrum Smith writes a letter to the brethren in Kirtland, Ohio, calling on all the remaining faithful Saints to leave Kirtland and gather to Nauvoo, Illinois. He tells them their attempt to build up the Church in that area will fail and is against the will of the Lord until after the scourge of the wicked is complete. Then the Lord will build up Kirtland, "and it shall be polished and refined."

1842 - The Prophet Joseph spent the day with his children on his farm outside of Nauvoo, Illinois, and did not return until after dark.

1847 - Brigham Young, President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, arrives in Winter Quarters after having led the first group of pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley. He made the return trip in sixty-seven days and shared with the Saints the news of their new home in the West.

1918 - The First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Church Patriarch accept and endorse President Joseph F. Smith's Vision of the Redemption of the Dead as the word of the Lord. It would later be added to the Doctrine and Covenants as Section 138.

1979 - The first branch of the Church in the Netherlands Antilles, located in the Caribbean Sea, is organized.

1985 - Elder Thomas S. Monson dedicates Yugoslavia for the preaching of the gospel.