1999
Church Presidents Crossword Puzzle
April 1999

“Church Presidents Crossword Puzzle,” Friend, Apr. 1999, 11

Church Presidents Crossword Puzzle

By Cherie N. Nielsen and Rebecca Todd

Answers to this crossword puzzle will be the name of the Church President described or the number of the order in which the named President served. You may want to do this puzzle together as a family.

Crossword puzzle

Across

  1. His eyes were badly damaged while working for the railroad.

  2. He was shot four times but did not die in Carthage Jail when Joseph Smith was martyred.

  3. He urged members to go to the temple often and to be Christlike.

  4. Howard W. Hunter was the _____________ President.

  5. Wilford Woodruff was the _____________ President.

  6. He received the revelation that all worthy men could hold the priesthood.

  7. Joseph Fielding Smith was the _____________ President.

  8. George Albert Smith was the _____________ President.

  9. David O. McKay was the _____________ President.

  10. Joseph Smith was the _____________ President.

  11. He is the prophet today.

  12. Lorenzo Snow was the _____________ President.

  13. His father, Hyrum Smith, was martyred when he was only five years old.

  14. Heber J. Grant was the _____________ President.

Down

  1. He led the pioneers to Utah and was a great colonizer.

  2. Brigham Young was the _____________ President.

  3. The only President whose father was also a President.

  4. Spencer W. Kimball was the _____________ President.

  5. John Taylor was the _____________ President.

  6. He practiced his handwriting until he became an excellent penman.

  7. Gordon B. Hinckley is the _____________ President.

  8. He taught of the power of the Book of Mormon and daily scripture study.

  9. Ezra Taft Benson was the _____________ President.

  10. He was a diligent missionary who converted over 2,000 people.

  11. He established the Church Welfare Program.

  12. He stressed the importance of family life and of every member being a missionary.

  13. He promised St. George Saints that the drought would end if they would pay an honest tithing.

  14. He was the first Latter-day prophet and the translator of the Book of Mormon.

  15. Harold B. Lee was the _____________ President.

  16. Joseph F. Smith was the _____________ President.

Answers:

  • Across—(3) George Albert Smith, (5) John Taylor, (8) Howard W. Hunter, (10) fourteenth, (11) fourth, (12) Spencer W. Kimball, (14) tenth, (16) eighth, (18) ninth, (21) first, (26) Gordon B. Hinckley, (27) fifth, (28) Joseph F. Smith, (29) seventh. Down—(1) Brigham Young, (2) second, (4) Joseph Fielding Smith, (6) twelfth, (7) third, (9) Heber J. Grant, (11) fifteenth, (13) Ezra Taft Benson, (15) thirteenth, (17) Wilford Woodruff, (19) Harold B. Lee, (20) David O. McKay, (22) Lorenzo Snow, (23) Joseph Smith, (24) eleventh, (25) sixth.