2021
Gat Tras long Lod
Julae 2021

Ol Fas Fasfala Woman blong Restoresen

Gat Tras long Lod

I kam long Brent M. Rogers

Jos Histri Dipatmen

From se Meri An Yang i save Lod tru long olgeta skripja, dip fet blong hem i kipim ol filing blong hem i “kwaet tru long ol strong hariken.”1

Pikja
Mary Ann Angell Young in her garden

Pikja droing i kam long Toni Oka

Meri An Anjel i laki blong save groap long wan hom we skripja stadi i kam faswan. Hem i laekem tumas ol tijing blong Sevya.2 Hem i lanem eli long laef blong hem se hem i save harem voes blong Lod tru long ol skripja mo fanem pis long ol tijing blong Hem.

Hem i harem oli prijim gospel blong Jisas Kraes we i bin kambak long Rod Aelan, YSA, long 1831, mo afta we hem i ridim Buk blong Momon, Meri An i bin konvet i kam long gospel.

Hem i muv i go long Ketlan, Ohaeo long 1833, mo long ples ia hem i mitim Brigham Yang, mo maredem hem long stat blong 1834. Blong nekis 48 yia, tru long plante muvmuv mo hadtaem, Meri An Anjel Yang i gohed blong harem Lod tru long ol skripja mo putum tras blong hem we i no muvmuv long Lod.

Eksampol, hasban blong hem i go long wan misin long Inglan long 1839, 10 dei nomo afta we hem i bonem gel blong tufala, Alis. Long 20 manis we i bin folem, Meri An mo ol sikis pikinini blong tufala oli bin fesem i had. Oli bin safa from sik mo stap laef long kon bred nomo, melek mo sam vejetebol blong garen.3 Meri An i bin faenem wan smol wok blong sapotem famli blong hem mo blong tekem kea long hemwan mo ol smol pikinini blong hem. Yet, Lod i helpem olgeta tru long ol hadtaem ia. “Hemia i wan gudfala samting,” hem i raet long hasban blong hem, blong “gat tras long Lod.”4

Meri An i stap dipen long save blong hem long skripja, mo i stap kam blong andastan wetem wan tru tingting se oltaem Lod i bin stap wetem hem, lavem hem mo andastanem hem, speseli long ol plante hadtaem blong hem. “Bae Lod i daerektem yumi long evri samting mo toktok pis long ol bigfala taem blong tes mo tudak” i bin prea blong hem.5

Ol Not

  1. Leta blong Meri An Anjel Yang i go long Brigham Yang, 30, Jun 1844, Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878, Church History Library, Salt Lake City (CHL).

  2. Luk long “Biography of Mrs. Mary Ann Young,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1, 1887, 53–54; Emmeline B. Wells, “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent, July 15, 1882, 28–29.

  3. Luk long Matthew C. Godfrey, “‘You Had Better Let Mrs Young Have Any Thing She Wants’: What a Joseph Smith Pay Order Teaches about the Plight of Missionary Wives in the Early Church,” BYU Studies, vol. 58, no. 2 (2019), 63–64.

  4. Leta blong Meri An Anjel Yang i go long Brigham Yang, 15 Epr. 1841, Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878, CHL.

  5. Leta blong Meri An Anjel Yang i go long Brigham Yang, 21 Maj. 1840, George W. Thatcher Blair Collection, 1837–1988, CHL.