CHURCH HISTORY GEMS – 17 NOVEMBER 2010

“The pioneer exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, began 4 February 1846. Nearly four years earlier, in August of 1842, the Prophet Joseph Smith shared his foreknowledge of the trek west: ‘I prophesied that the Saints would continue to suffer much affliction and would be driven to the Rocky Mountains, many would apostatize, others would be put to death by our persecutors or lose their lives in consequence of exposure or disease, and some [would live to] build cities and see the Saints become a mighty people in the midst of the Rocky Mountains’ (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith [1976], 255).”

M. Russell Ballard, “Faith in Every Footstep,” Ensign, Nov. 1996, 24

Topics: Joseph Smith