Pioneer Day

This week members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be celebrating Pioneer Day (July 24th), a commemoration of the Saints who trekked across the US to settle the Salt Lake Valley.  This is a great time to remember your ancestors, to remember the legacy they passed on to you. 

In our family we will be...

Reading Pioneer Stories

Making vinegar candy

From pioneerwomanatheart.blogspot.com

Playing Stick Pull

and Singing Pioneer Songs

I think of our pioneer forebears, driven from Nauvoo and crossing the plains, exercising their agency to follow a prophet even as they suffered sickness, privation, and some even death. Why such terrible tribulation? To what end? For what purpose?

As we ask these questions, we realize that the purpose of our life on earth is to grow, develop, and be strengthened through our own experiences. How do we do this? The scriptures give us an answer in one simple phrase: we “wait upon the Lord.”¹² Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, “all these things shall [be for our] experience, and … [our] good.”¹³

  - - Dalin H. Oakes, October 2011