"Our 1st Trek"

Neither rain nor hail nor snow nor sleet will stop our trekkers.  We had Stake, Ward and Family Leaders that came for Trek Leader Training and off we went!

The picture shows the Sweetwater River, with the ice in it.  This would be much like when the pioneers had to make this crossing in October of 1856, only with much colder temperatures.  Grown men dropped to their knees and said they just couldn't go on, remembering the last crossing of the Platte River a few weeks before, where 14 people had died.  Somewhere in the area of this picture, many Aaronic Priesthood holders from the Martin Handcart Company carried people across this river multiple times.  These Priesthood boys didn't wait to be asked or assigned, they just saw a need and did it.  Along the trail, there are some beautiful sculptures depicting this event.

We made it!

This is me in the blue helping on the women's pull.  

 There were many women who traveled to Salt Lake without men to help them.  This women's' pull is done so both the men watching and the women pushing and pulling can reflect on how we as modern women have to trek back to our Heavenly Father.  Sometimes we need to follow the example of those handcart pioneers and see what we can do to lighten our load as we struggle to pull our own handcarts in this life.  Sometimes we have so many good things in our earthly handcart that pulling is harder than it needs to be.

This pull is done silently and reverently as the men pay tribute to the women to the women in their lives.