Lesson 39:The Saints Build Winter Quarters

1. Lesson 39:The Saints Build Winter Quarters Lesson 39: The Saints Build Winter Quarters,” Primary 5: Doctrine and Covenants: Church History, (1997),222

2. Purpose To help the children understand that great things can be accomplished when people cooperate and serve each other.

3. I'm Trying to Be like Jesus • 1. I'm trying to be like Jesus; • I'm following in his ways. • I'm trying to love as he did, in all that I do and say. • At times I am tempted to make a wrong choice, • But I try to listen as the still small voice whispers, • 2. I'm trying to love my neighbor; • I'm learning to serve my friends. • I watch for the day of gladness when Jesus will come again. • I try to remember the lessons he taught. • Then the Holy Spirit enters into my thoughts, saying: • Chorus • "Love one another as Jesus loves you. • Try to show kindness in all that you do. • Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, • For these are the things Jesus taught." • Words and music: Janice Kapp Perry, b. 1938 • (c) 1980 by Janice Kapp Perry.

4. OUR OPENING PRAYER WILL BE GIVEN BY (Enter name here)

5. Attention Activity • 2:18 • 2:21 • 30:8 • 6:3 • 4:2 • 4:3 • 42:29 • 76:5 • 100:16 • I want you to look up the scripture referenced on the cards I’m handing out. • Why can’t you find the scripture listed? • You need cooperate with each other to match the card pieces together.

6. Attention Activity Let’s try it again, only this time work with an other person to see if you can have better success at locating the scripture verse.

7. Mosiah • Mosiah • Alma • Moroni • D&C • D&C • D&C • D&C • 2:18 • 2:21 • 30:8 • 6:3 • 4:2 • 42:29 • 76:5 • 100:16

8. Attention Activity Let’s have one person from each pair now read the scripture they were able to look up.

9. Attention Activity As the versus are being read, listen for one word that appears in each of the scriptures.

10. Attention Activity What word appeared in each scripture?

11. SERVE

12. SERVE Whom should we serve?

13. SERVE How do we serve God?

14. SERVE Let’s read Mosiah 2:17. 17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.

15. SERVE What do you think this verse means?

16. In today’s lesson, we are going to learn about how the Saints, who were driven out of Nauvoo, served God by helping and serving each other.

17. Lesson 39:The Saints Build Winter Quarters Lesson 39: The Saints Build Winter Quarters,” Primary 5: Doctrine and Covenants: Church History, (1997),222

18. After the Saints had worked hard to complete the Nauvoo Temple and build Nauvoo into a prosperous city, they were driven out of Nauvoo. Once again they had to leave their homes to escape their enemies.

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20. About two weeks after the first Saints left Nauvoo, it got so cold that the river froze over. • Some of the Saints drove their wagons across the river on the ice.

21. The Saints camped by the river for a few days. • Some of them did not have enough clothes and were very cold. • Some of them did not have enough food.

22. Those who had enough food and clothes shared with others. • Soon the Saints moved and made another camp.

23. Brigham Young chose leaders who helped the people get organized and prepared for the journey to the west. • The Saints who were traveling to the west were called pioneers.

24. In March 1846 the pioneers began traveling west across Iowa. • In March 1846 the pioneers began traveling west across Iowa.

25. Their progress was slow because of bad weather, bad trails, and other problems. • Brigham Young sent men ahead to find good places for other camps.

26. These men cut trees and made log cabins. • They also planted crops and built bridges across streams. • They made it easier for the pioneers to travel.

27. In June 1846, about four months after leaving Nauvoo, the first group of pioneers made it all the way across Iowa to the Missouri River.

28. They stopped at a place called Council Bluffs and built a ferryboat for crossing the river. • Other Saints soon came to join them .

29. While many Saints had left Nauvoo in February 1846, many others stayed behind for a little longer. • Some of them had been assigned to finish the temple.

30. As the Saints left Nauvoo, they looked back across the river and saw their beautiful city, with the temple on the hill.

31. They were sad to leave, but they were happy they had finished the temple of the Lord.

32. Many of the Saints who left Nauvoo in the later months were too sick, poor, or unprepared to travel.

33. Hundreds of them were scattered along the banks of the river and had little shelter or food.

34. But the Lord helped them by sending flocks of small birds called quail, which the Saints were able to catch and eat.

35. When Brigham Young heard of the troubles of these Saints, he sent some men to rescue them.

36. These men • saved them from starvation and helped them travel • to Council Bluffs and other places in Iowa where the Saints were camped.

37. While the Saints were in Iowa, Captain James Allen of the United States Army came to see Brigham Young.

38. Captain Allen said the president of the United States wanted 500 men from the Church to join the army to help in a war with Mexico.

39. Although this was a difficult time for the Saints and the men were needed for the trek west, Brigham Young encouraged them to go.

40. The money they would be paid would help their families, the Saints who were poor, and the missionaries.

41. Serving in the army would also show the loyalty of Church members to their country.

42. Brigham Young told the men to be the best soldiers in the army. • They should take the Bible and Book of Mormon with them. • They must be neat, clean, and polite.

43. They must be neat, clean, and polite. • They should not swear or play cards. • Brigham Young told the men to obey God’s commandments. • If they did, they would not have to fight.

44. One day a woman came to Charles C. Rich, one of the Church leaders in Mount Pisgah, and tearfully explained that her husband was away with the Mormon Battalion and she and her children had nothing to eat.

45. Brother Rich asked his wife to give the woman some flour. • Sister Rich explained that they had only a little flour in the house and there was none available to buy,

46. but Brother Rich told his wife, “Let her have all that there is in the house, and trust in the Lord to provide for us.”

47. Sister Rich did as her husband asked, even though she wondered what her own family would eat.

48. Later that day some wagons stopped in front of the Rich home, and a man gave Brother Rich fifty dollars, saying that the Spirit had told him the family was out of money.

49. Brother Rich handed the money to his wife and said, “Now you see the Lord has opened the way for us to get flour.”

50. The man also told Brother and Sister Rich that there was a wagon full of flour coming to Mount Pisgah, so they would be able to buy what they needed.