Doctrine and Covenants Stories for Young Readers

The Rollins Sisters Save the Day!

Illustrations by Apryl Stott

Read about this story in Doctrine and Covenants 67–70.

Jesus Christ told the Prophet Joseph Smith many important things to help us. The Church set up a printing press to print Jesus’s words. That way people would be able to read them.

One day, a group of angry men came. They destroyed the printing press. They threw the pages of the scriptures out into the street.

Two sisters named Mary Elizabeth and Caroline Rollins saw what happened. They ran and gathered the pages in their arms.

The girls hid in a cornfield until the men left. They had saved the scriptures! Those scriptures later became part of the Doctrine and Covenants.

I can read the scriptures. I can be brave and stand up for what I believe.

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I Can Be Brave

What helps you be brave?

Illustration by Apryl Stott