How to draw an elephant with your hand

How to draw an elephant with your hand

Goodnight Moon

Going on a Bear Hunt

Teach Me to Walk in the Light

Keep dreaming.

Fish is a Fish

A Mother's Hope

Quickly I'll Obey

Love is Spoken Here

The Lupine Lady

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

The Little House

Legacy

Epic Mormon Pioneer Journey

Come come ye saints

The Oxcart Song

Here comes the oxcart, oh how slow.

It's pulled by an ox, of course you know.

The wooden wheels creak as they roll along.

Creak, creak, creak is their song.

Buffalo Chips

The pioneers would gather buffalo chips to burn instead of firewood.

Pioneer Chores

Crossing the Plains

Pioneers work on the Temples

The Prophet Joseph Smith asked some of the other Church leaders how they thought the temple should be built. Some said it should be made of logs, while others said it should be of wooden boards.  But the 1^st Presidency had knelt to pray, and they had seen a vision of the temple.   Joseph said, “Shall we, brethren, build a house for our God, of logs?  No, I have a plan of the house of the Lord, given by himself; and you will soon see by this, the difference between our and his idea of things”.

When the Kirtland Temple was completed it looked exactly as it had in the vision. During the building of the temple someone tried to get Joseph Smith to change some of the design, but Joseph insisted that the temple be built just as it appeared in the vision.





-Because the members of the Church were so poor, they had to sacrifice alot to build the Kirtland Temple. Almost all the men who could work and who were not away on missions helped build the temple. 
   
Even the prophet worked in the quarry where the stone for the walls was cut. On Saturdays the men who had horses and wagons hauled stone from the quarry to the temple site so the stonemasons would have enough stone to work with during the week.


Emma Smith supervised the women of Kirtland in sewing clothing for the temple workmen. The women also made carpets and curtains of white canvas. The curtains were hung from the ceiling of the temple and could be used to divide the large rooms on the first and second floors into smaller rooms.

Many children didn’t get new clothes at that time because the material was being used for the temple.  They had to wear clothes that were too small or worn out.

The members of the Church gave up their  precious dishes and glass to be broken and put in the plaster so that the temple would be more beautiful.

When the temple was finished though, the plaster on the outside of the temple sparkled when the sun shone upon it.

Many people worked on the temple every day. Because they were giving all their money to build the temple, sometimes the workers did not have very much food or nice clothing to wear.  Often they went home with nothing more than cornmeal to feed their families.  When they could get some milk, butter, flour or meat, it was considered a luxury.

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