Monday, 9 June 2014

Kendra's Star



At the October 1856 general conference, President Brigham Young (1801–77) announced that handcart pioneers were still crossing the plains and that everyone was to help gather supplies for them immediately. Lucy Meserve Smith wrote that women “stripped off their petticoats (These were large underskirts. In October, many of them would have been quilted and quite warm.) stockings, and everything they could spare, right there in the Tabernacle, and piled them into the wagons.” As the rescued pioneers began to arrive in Salt Lake City, Lucy wrote, “I never took more pleasure in any labor I ever performed in my life, such a unanimity of feeling prevailed. I only had to go into a store and make my wants known; if it was cloth, it was measured off without charge.” President George Albert Smith (1870–1951) said of ministering to others: “Our eternal happiness will be in proportion to the way that we devote ourselves to helping others.”

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