Mormon Pioneer Day

Mormon Pioneer Day
1847 Plus 161 Years

“One hundred and fifty years ago our people were leaving Nauvoo and threading their way across the prairies of Iowa. None of us, I am confident, can appreciate the measure of sacrifice which they made in leaving their comfortable homes to brave the tempests of the wilderness on a journey that would not end until they reached this valley of the Great Salt Lake. Their suffering was immeasurable. They died by the hundreds for this cause of which each one of us is a part.”
- Gordon B. Hinckley, Fifteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, November 1996(23 June 1910 - 27 Jan 2008)