[Wilford Woodruff]
A Letter from the Camp of Israel 400 miles from winter Quarters July 10th 1848 published in the Star of Oct 15 1848 says that President Brigham Young & Heber C Kimball Company which they led to the valley of the Salt Lake Consisted of 623 waggons, 1,891 souls 131 Horses, 44 Mules, 2,012 Oxen 983 Cows 334 Loose cattle, 654 Sheep 237 Pigs, 904 Chickens, 54 Cats, 134 Dogs, 3 goats, 10 geese, 5 Bee Hives 11 Doves, 1 Squirrel, 5 Ducks.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
185 years ago today - Jan 11, 1834
Joseph Smith, Frederick G. Williams, Newel K. Whitney, Oliver Cowdery, John Johnson, and Orson Hyde pray that the Lord will send his angels to watch over them and their families, protect the lives of the members of the united order [United Firm], let Joseph prevail over Doctor P. Hurlbut in court, bless the bishop with means to discharge every debt of the order, deliver the printing press from the hands of evil men, deliver Zion and gather his scattered people, and "unveil his face, that his saints might behold his glory, and dwell with him. Amen."
[Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
[Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
35 years ago today - Jan 10, 1984
At a BYU Devotional Apostle Bruce R. McConkie identifies "salvation by 'grace alone without works' as the 'second greatest heresy' of Christendom". He also refers to the first, or "father of all heresies" which is the "incomprehensible three-in-one spirit essence" of God. Local Christian leaders decry McConkie's "hodge podge of confused statements", his "lack of real understanding of church history", and his "lack of understanding for other groups." One labels McConkie's talk "offensive".
95 years ago today - Jan 10, 1924
[James E. Talmage]
Today I was made the subject of a very unwelcome appointment, that of representing the Twelve in assisting stake presidencies and other officers in the Church in dealing with cases of alleged transgression, particularly with respect to the claims persistently made that plural marriage is still sanctioned by the Church.
[James E. Talmage Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
Today I was made the subject of a very unwelcome appointment, that of representing the Twelve in assisting stake presidencies and other officers in the Church in dealing with cases of alleged transgression, particularly with respect to the claims persistently made that plural marriage is still sanctioned by the Church.
[James E. Talmage Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
120 years ago today - Jan 10, 1899
In a meeting of the Twelve Heber J. Grant "said his financial condition left him about $77,000.00 worse than nothing. He lamented because he had no living son. Prest. F. D. Richards prophesied that he would have a son and means to pay his debts." Although Grant had three wives he never had another son.
130 years ago today - Jan 10, 1889
[Sufferage]
With church approval, the territorial association was formed on 10 January 1889 with leading roles given to women who were not involved in polygamous marriages. Margaret N. Caine, wife of Delegate to Congress John T. Caine, was the president and Emily Richards was appointed a state organizer. Acting quickly, Mrs. Richards organized local units throughout the territory. Many, if not all of them, sprang from the women's auxiliary organizations of the church, most notably the Relief Society. The Woman's Exponent, an unofficial publication for Mormon women, took up the cause with zeal.
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Sufferage, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]
With church approval, the territorial association was formed on 10 January 1889 with leading roles given to women who were not involved in polygamous marriages. Margaret N. Caine, wife of Delegate to Congress John T. Caine, was the president and Emily Richards was appointed a state organizer. Acting quickly, Mrs. Richards organized local units throughout the territory. Many, if not all of them, sprang from the women's auxiliary organizations of the church, most notably the Relief Society. The Woman's Exponent, an unofficial publication for Mormon women, took up the cause with zeal.
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Sufferage, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]
130 years ago today - Jan 10, 1889
[Apostle Marriner W. Merrill]
I was arrested by Deputy Hudson and Commissioner Goodwin at 12:30 o'clock and was put under bonds. C. Traveller and M. W. Merrill sureties.
[Notes from the Miscellaneous Record Book, 1886-1906: Selected diary notes from the journal books of Marriner Wood Merrill, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I was arrested by Deputy Hudson and Commissioner Goodwin at 12:30 o'clock and was put under bonds. C. Traveller and M. W. Merrill sureties.
[Notes from the Miscellaneous Record Book, 1886-1906: Selected diary notes from the journal books of Marriner Wood Merrill, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
170 years ago today - Jan 10, 1849
The church had a supply of engraved Kirtland, Ohio, bank notes which bore the signatures of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon, and decided to reissue these with the additional signatures of Young, Kimball, and Whitney. Thomas Bullock, clerk of Brigham Young, also put a private mark on the bills to authenticate those issued against gold dust. Some 135 of these bills in $1.00 and $3.00 denominations were placed in circulation on 10 January 1849, and 256, mostly of the $5.00 denomination, were in circulation before fall, bearing a face value of $1,33l.00.
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Utah Currency, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Utah Currency, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]
175 years ago today - Jan 10, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith ordained his uncle John Smith as a patriarch; he became the fourth patriarch of the Church on January 1, 1849.
[BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu]
[BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu]
180 years ago today - Jan 10, 1839
Patriarchal blessing of Joseph Holbrook ... Thy name is registered in heaven and the angels rejoice at thy birth and notwithstanding thy trials, thy blessings shall be great to thee. Thy name shall be sounded to the remotest parts of the earth and thy name shall become honorable among Kings and Princes ... for thou shalt yet have the power and rejoice in the spirit when one shall chase a thousand and two shall put ten thousand to f[l]ight ... thou shalt yet sit in council with the sons of the west and thou salt be a Father to them and thou shalt aid to feed them and to clothe them and to fill the store house of the Lord for them and thy days shall be extended to see Babylon fall and thou shalt reign with the Saviour ...
[Patriarchal Blessings]
[Patriarchal Blessings]
40 years ago today - 40 years ago - Jan 9, 1979-Tuesday
[Leonard Arrington]
I was told this morning by Glen Leonard that he had received a letter from Dennis Lythgoe, who is bishop of a ward in one of the suburbs of Boston, Mass. According to the way Glen understands it, Dennis wanted to appoint a sister as president of the ward Sunday School. He looked through all the manuals of instruction and couldn't see anything that specifically prohibited it. Upon inquiry with his [stake] high council representative and stake president, he learned that they also could see no reason this should not be done, particularly in view of the fact that one of the other wards in the stake had a black as president of the Sunday School who held no priesthood, and another ward had a person who held only the Aaronic Priesthood as president. After consulting with the stake president, he was given the go-ahead and sustained the woman as Sunday School president. One of her counselors was a woman and one was a man. The Sunday School functioned very well. Seeing this arrangement functioning so well, one of the other ward bishops decided to do the same thing, and with the approval of the stake president, did so. Some person in that ward, however, didn't think it was a proper thing to do, and wrote to Elder [Rex D.] Pinegar, the area supervisor. Elder Pinegar gathered together information about it and then submitted it to the Quorum of Twelve. The Quorum of Twelve then discussed the matter and informed Elder Pinegar to inform the stake president to inform the bishop that this was not a proper procedure and that he would have to release the sister. B[isho]p Lythgoe then wrote to the former stake president there, now a member of the Quorum of Twelve, Elder [L.] Tom Perry. Elder Perry wrote back a rather curt letter saying that he had not been present when the Quorum of Twelve discussed it but he verified that it had been discussed and that the minutes indicated the decision that Elder Pinegar had conveyed to them. The other bishop also wrote to Elder Hale [Robert D. Hales], a former regional representative of the region and a former bishop in Boston, and he replied more or less the same way-rather tersely. So Bishop Lythgoe will be releasing the sister, and, as he expressed, "We have taken a step backwards." Of course much of it must be to avoid the impression that we are about to turn over certain leadership positions to women.
I am suddenly reminded of something important I want to record in the diary. Yesterday afternoon Scott Kenney came in to tell me about a "find" in the papers of [LDS President] Joseph F. Smith. He has been going through the Joseph F. Smith papers preparatory to a study of the Joseph F. Smith administration. He found a letter written by Joseph F. in his own hand in which he mentions his struggle with the Word of Wisdom. Apparently for some 20 years of his life he chewed tobacco secretly and could not get rid of the habit. This started while he was a teenager-presumably about the time that he was expelled from school for beating up the teacher and was later called (at age 15) as a missionary to Hawaii. The habit had apparently established itself at that time-early 1850s. Joseph F. mentions in his letter that one day he was called in by Brigham Young (maybe John Taylor-my memory is uncertain) to discuss some matter, and he was close enough to President Young that he [Young] could smell the tobacco. He [Smith] apologized and confessed to using tobacco secretly, said he had tried several times to quit the habit. The president told him that he really must stop, so he made a Herculean effort and did stop it. He comments that his use of tobacco had had an undesirable influence on his "wives and children" so quite probably he was still using tobacco when he married Julina [Lambson], the mother of Joseph Fielding [Smith], and possibly another one or two of his plural wives. Scott speculates perhaps his own understanding of the difficulty for people to give up the habit explains his refusal to deny temple recommends and appointments to Church positions to people who still used tobacco. Strict enforcement of the Church rule did not come until 1921, three years after Joseph F.'s death. Scott believes that Joseph F. was understanding and tolerant on this matter. Scott said he would furnish me his notes on this finding. It is an important thing for us to know because we can see a number of implications-it helps to explain some of his own insecurity during the 1860s and 1870s.
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
I was told this morning by Glen Leonard that he had received a letter from Dennis Lythgoe, who is bishop of a ward in one of the suburbs of Boston, Mass. According to the way Glen understands it, Dennis wanted to appoint a sister as president of the ward Sunday School. He looked through all the manuals of instruction and couldn't see anything that specifically prohibited it. Upon inquiry with his [stake] high council representative and stake president, he learned that they also could see no reason this should not be done, particularly in view of the fact that one of the other wards in the stake had a black as president of the Sunday School who held no priesthood, and another ward had a person who held only the Aaronic Priesthood as president. After consulting with the stake president, he was given the go-ahead and sustained the woman as Sunday School president. One of her counselors was a woman and one was a man. The Sunday School functioned very well. Seeing this arrangement functioning so well, one of the other ward bishops decided to do the same thing, and with the approval of the stake president, did so. Some person in that ward, however, didn't think it was a proper thing to do, and wrote to Elder [Rex D.] Pinegar, the area supervisor. Elder Pinegar gathered together information about it and then submitted it to the Quorum of Twelve. The Quorum of Twelve then discussed the matter and informed Elder Pinegar to inform the stake president to inform the bishop that this was not a proper procedure and that he would have to release the sister. B[isho]p Lythgoe then wrote to the former stake president there, now a member of the Quorum of Twelve, Elder [L.] Tom Perry. Elder Perry wrote back a rather curt letter saying that he had not been present when the Quorum of Twelve discussed it but he verified that it had been discussed and that the minutes indicated the decision that Elder Pinegar had conveyed to them. The other bishop also wrote to Elder Hale [Robert D. Hales], a former regional representative of the region and a former bishop in Boston, and he replied more or less the same way-rather tersely. So Bishop Lythgoe will be releasing the sister, and, as he expressed, "We have taken a step backwards." Of course much of it must be to avoid the impression that we are about to turn over certain leadership positions to women.
I am suddenly reminded of something important I want to record in the diary. Yesterday afternoon Scott Kenney came in to tell me about a "find" in the papers of [LDS President] Joseph F. Smith. He has been going through the Joseph F. Smith papers preparatory to a study of the Joseph F. Smith administration. He found a letter written by Joseph F. in his own hand in which he mentions his struggle with the Word of Wisdom. Apparently for some 20 years of his life he chewed tobacco secretly and could not get rid of the habit. This started while he was a teenager-presumably about the time that he was expelled from school for beating up the teacher and was later called (at age 15) as a missionary to Hawaii. The habit had apparently established itself at that time-early 1850s. Joseph F. mentions in his letter that one day he was called in by Brigham Young (maybe John Taylor-my memory is uncertain) to discuss some matter, and he was close enough to President Young that he [Young] could smell the tobacco. He [Smith] apologized and confessed to using tobacco secretly, said he had tried several times to quit the habit. The president told him that he really must stop, so he made a Herculean effort and did stop it. He comments that his use of tobacco had had an undesirable influence on his "wives and children" so quite probably he was still using tobacco when he married Julina [Lambson], the mother of Joseph Fielding [Smith], and possibly another one or two of his plural wives. Scott speculates perhaps his own understanding of the difficulty for people to give up the habit explains his refusal to deny temple recommends and appointments to Church positions to people who still used tobacco. Strict enforcement of the Church rule did not come until 1921, three years after Joseph F.'s death. Scott believes that Joseph F. was understanding and tolerant on this matter. Scott said he would furnish me his notes on this finding. It is an important thing for us to know because we can see a number of implications-it helps to explain some of his own insecurity during the 1860s and 1870s.
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
115 years ago today - Jan 9, 1904
Emmeline B. Wells, editor of the Woman's Exponent, writes: "Aunts Presendia [H. Kimball] & Zina [D.H. Young] used to interpret dreams for us but now there is no one to do it." This is one of the earliest comments about a loss of spiritual gifts in Mormonism.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
125 years ago today - Jan 9, 1894
[Wilford Woodruff]
Jan 9, 1894 This has been an important day Concerning affairs of the Church. The U.S. Government has had possession of the Real Esstate of the Church & nearly $500,000 dollars of our money & stocks for several years in the Courts for years & the Congress of the United States Passed a Bill to restore our personal Property & the supreme Court ordered the money to be turned over to the Presidency of the Church but it had to be turned over to the supreme Court of Utah Territory. To day the supreme Court here ordered the Receiver to turn over the Money to the Presidency of the Church amounting to ($438,174.39) which will help us to partly to Pay our debts. Also the shares 4,742 of the Telegraph Line And office furniture in the hands of James Jack in Church office, in Presidents office office furniture and Books in Historians office and office furniture turned over By late Receiver Dyer to Present Receiver Lawrence. Now this order to turn over this money will assist us to pay a Part of the Debts.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Jan 9, 1894 This has been an important day Concerning affairs of the Church. The U.S. Government has had possession of the Real Esstate of the Church & nearly $500,000 dollars of our money & stocks for several years in the Courts for years & the Congress of the United States Passed a Bill to restore our personal Property & the supreme Court ordered the money to be turned over to the Presidency of the Church but it had to be turned over to the supreme Court of Utah Territory. To day the supreme Court here ordered the Receiver to turn over the Money to the Presidency of the Church amounting to ($438,174.39) which will help us to partly to Pay our debts. Also the shares 4,742 of the Telegraph Line And office furniture in the hands of James Jack in Church office, in Presidents office office furniture and Books in Historians office and office furniture turned over By late Receiver Dyer to Present Receiver Lawrence. Now this order to turn over this money will assist us to pay a Part of the Debts.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
135 years ago today - Jan 9, 1884
[Heber J. Grant]
I sometimes feel almost like stopping the writing of a journal as my grammar is so poor also my spelling that I dislike to leave any such a record as I have to make under the circumstances; but I am of the opinion that it is almost a matter of duty that I keep a Journal and this is the main reason that I am willing to do so.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
I sometimes feel almost like stopping the writing of a journal as my grammar is so poor also my spelling that I dislike to leave any such a record as I have to make under the circumstances; but I am of the opinion that it is almost a matter of duty that I keep a Journal and this is the main reason that I am willing to do so.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
160 years ago today - Jan 9, 1859
[Wilford Woodruff]
I met with the Twelve at 6 oclok. O Hyde was unwell with the flux & did not dress. F. D. Richards was not well & did not dress. Erastus Snow came late & did not dress. O. Pratt W. Woodruff G. A. Smith E. T. Benson & Lorenzo Snow dressed. O. Pratt prayed. W. Woodruff was mouth & while praying O Pratt Fainted & fell on the floor or rather eased himself down on the floor & lay their untill we got through.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I met with the Twelve at 6 oclok. O Hyde was unwell with the flux & did not dress. F. D. Richards was not well & did not dress. Erastus Snow came late & did not dress. O. Pratt W. Woodruff G. A. Smith E. T. Benson & Lorenzo Snow dressed. O. Pratt prayed. W. Woodruff was mouth & while praying O Pratt Fainted & fell on the floor or rather eased himself down on the floor & lay their untill we got through.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
170 years ago today - Jan 9, 1849
[Wilford Woodruff]
Capt Dan Jones ... the sum total He had raised up in that Country was represented at the general conference of Manchester England Aug 14th 1848 amounting to 2,747 member. The whole representation at this general conference of England Scotland & wales was 17,902 members 350 branches ... Elder Jones Adds I have published in the welch language 48 different kinds And size of Pamphlets comprising more original matter than the Book of Mormon Doctrins & Covenants & voice of warning And have circulated one million Eight hundred thousand of Pages ...
I have been Enabled to subdue my foes Many of the gifts of the spirit are manifest. One young man who had been Deef & Dumb 8 years was healed when coming up out of the waters of Baptism so he both herd and spake. Was ordained to the Priesthood And is now preaching the gospel with success. Capt Jones is Adding 150 per month.
... I have been of late stiring up the saints to Pay their tithing. I have visited many of the conferences for this purpose. I feel incouraged to Believe I shall gather A good sum for the Temple. Their Are 4 persons expecting to come in Possession of large sums of money before I go to America. From them I expect to get several thousand pounds As tithing to gladden the hearts of the saints in the valley.
... O Pratt thinks it would take 300 ships to carry the british saints at the present time. ...
The Papel Crown has At length fallen. It looks As though the Beastly power of Mobocracy spoken of in Revelations was likely to destroy the dominion of the Mother of Abominations spedily. ...
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Capt Dan Jones ... the sum total He had raised up in that Country was represented at the general conference of Manchester England Aug 14th 1848 amounting to 2,747 member. The whole representation at this general conference of England Scotland & wales was 17,902 members 350 branches ... Elder Jones Adds I have published in the welch language 48 different kinds And size of Pamphlets comprising more original matter than the Book of Mormon Doctrins & Covenants & voice of warning And have circulated one million Eight hundred thousand of Pages ...
I have been Enabled to subdue my foes Many of the gifts of the spirit are manifest. One young man who had been Deef & Dumb 8 years was healed when coming up out of the waters of Baptism so he both herd and spake. Was ordained to the Priesthood And is now preaching the gospel with success. Capt Jones is Adding 150 per month.
... I have been of late stiring up the saints to Pay their tithing. I have visited many of the conferences for this purpose. I feel incouraged to Believe I shall gather A good sum for the Temple. Their Are 4 persons expecting to come in Possession of large sums of money before I go to America. From them I expect to get several thousand pounds As tithing to gladden the hearts of the saints in the valley.
... O Pratt thinks it would take 300 ships to carry the british saints at the present time. ...
The Papel Crown has At length fallen. It looks As though the Beastly power of Mobocracy spoken of in Revelations was likely to destroy the dominion of the Mother of Abominations spedily. ...
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
105 years ago today - Jan 8, 1914; Thursday
The question as to who should issue certificates of ordination to Patriarchs was renewed by Bro[ther]. Clawson, and now considered, resulting in an action by the council, on motion of Bro[ther]. Clawson, certificates of ordination to Patriarchs.
The question as to who the Presiding Patriarch presided over, was answered by President Smith, as follows: That by virtue of the patriarchal office held by him he was the Presiding Patriarch over the whole Church.
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
The question as to who the Presiding Patriarch presided over, was answered by President Smith, as follows: That by virtue of the patriarchal office held by him he was the Presiding Patriarch over the whole Church.
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
125 years ago today - Jan 8, 1894
[George Renolds]
"[S]till-born children do not need any temple ordinances performed for them. Such was the ruling of President Brigham Young and that de cision is honored in all the temples and confirmed by the instructions of the present authorities."
[George Reynolds to Jed Tomlinson, Jan. 8, 1894, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
"[S]till-born children do not need any temple ordinances performed for them. Such was the ruling of President Brigham Young and that de cision is honored in all the temples and confirmed by the instructions of the present authorities."
[George Reynolds to Jed Tomlinson, Jan. 8, 1894, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
175 years ago today - Jan 8, 1844
Joseph Smith tells Law that he is no longer his counselor.
Amasa M Lyman: Privately appointed second counselor 8 Jan. 1844 to replace William Law , but when William Law was not released at Apr. 1844 conference, Amasa M Lyman remained a special counselor.
[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47 and Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power ]
Amasa M Lyman: Privately appointed second counselor 8 Jan. 1844 to replace William Law , but when William Law was not released at Apr. 1844 conference, Amasa M Lyman remained a special counselor.
[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47 and Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power ]
35 years ago today - Jan 7, 1984
Premier Zhao Ziyang of the People's Republic of China visited the BYU-Hawaii campus and the adjacent Polynesian Cultural Center during the first visit of a Chinese premier to the United States since the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949.
[Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
[Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
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