What is a miracle the mormons found in the desert?

Question

I have notes for history..and it just says they found miracles..it doesnt go into detail.

Answer 1

The main miracle that I know of is the seagulls coming in to eat the grasshoppers that were destroying the crops.

Answer 2

To answer your question, you should be a little more specific. What time frame are we looking at?

But, guessing what you are asking I will respond as follows: When the Mormon pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley (Utah) in 1840, the immediately planted crops. However, soon thereafter, marauding crickets came and devoured many of the crops. Seagulls, nesting at the Great Salt Lake came to the rescue, however, and ate all of the crickets, thus saving the crops and the pioneers from starvation.. This documented event can be called a miracle in the desert.

Answer 3

The story goes that the mormons were in the promice land (SLC, UT) and had planted some crops (this is after a bad winter and some mormons had lost their feet and legs to frost bite) then the (mormon) crickets start to swarm their crops and the mormons fear they would almost starve to death again (liek they did coming over in t he wintertime in the push carts) and suddenly out of nowhere a big flock of seagulls came to eat up the mass of crickets (a miracle) and their crops were saved.
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The Crickets and the Seagulls
The pioneers were eager to harvest their spring crops, but late spring frosts killed some of the crops, and a drought killed more of them. Then crickets came and began eating everything that was left. The pioneers did everything they could think of to fight these insects. Some people tried to frighten the crickets away by making loud noises; others tried to shake them off the plants. Some chased the crickets into piles of straw and set fire to them, and some chased the crickets into ditches filled with water to drown them. No matter what the pioneers did, however, the crickets kept coming. They were everywhere—on the trees and fences and in the houses, beds, and clothing.
The pioneers were very worried. If the crickets ate all the crops, the people would have nothing to eat and would die from starvation. For two weeks the people fought the crickets and prayed for Heavenly Father to help them. The stake president finally asked the Saints to hold a special day of fasting and prayer. Susan Noble Grant, who was sixteen years old at the time, described what then happened (display the picture of the miracle of the seagulls as you relate this account):
“The answer to our fasting and prayers came on a clear summer afternoon.
“We were fearfully alarmed, for all of a sudden, circling above our … fields, appeared great flocks of screaming gulls. ‘A new plague is descending upon us,’ was our first thought. Down the gray and white birds swooped in hundreds, then in thousands, uttering shrill … cries as they pounced upon [the crickets]. … Then a strange thing happened. As soon as they had gorged themselves, they sailed over to a nearby stream, took a few sips of water, disgorged [vomited] and returned to join their screaming companions. All our people stood in wonderment! Our prayers were answered” (quoted in Grant, p. 446).
The seagulls came back day after day for about three weeks. They ate crickets until all the crickets were gone. The Saints knew their prayers had been answered in a miraculous way. They were grateful that their crops and their lives had been spared.
In August 1848 the Saints had a feast to celebrate the harvest. They displayed their crops and had speeches, music, and dancing. They were grateful to Heavenly Father for helping them harvest a good crop.
By the end of 1848 nearly three thousand people were living in the Salt Lake Valley. This was about one-fourth of all the people who had lived in Nauvoo. Brigham Young wrote to the Saints who were still in Iowa and told them that the Church had finally found a place where they could live in peace and safety.
Although the first year in the valley had been filled with many hardships, the Saints felt very blessed. They had endured their challenges and turned a desert into a comfortable settlement where they could live in peace and worship Heavenly Father. They continued to keep the Sabbath day holy to show their gratitude to Heavenly Father and Jesus for their many blessings.

Answer 4

There were several miracles in the trek west. The story of the seagulls eating the locusts is one. Another is appearance of huge flocks of quail along the trail after days without finding any game. Individual storys such as Mary Felding Smith's tell of the healing blessing to livestock.

Answer 5

Seagulls, quail, (being left alone by the US Government for an extended period of time) but there are others too. What class?

Answer 6

When? What history? I could answer your question if you gave a little bit more detail.

Answer 7

What notes are you talking about? More info would be needed to answer your question.

Answer 8

They found Salt Lake City, and weren't run out of town.

Answer 9

I am not sure. It may have been the liahona....I think.

Answer 10

believe not every spirit , but test the spirits whether they are of God , because many false prophets are gone out into the world