JLHPROF Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 As I sit here watching the Days of 47 Parade and enjoying the Pioneer Day tributes I though we might want to take a moment to express our gratitude for everything the pioneers went through to keep our Church together and establish the thriving Mormon community in the middle of the desert that allowed the Church to grow. After rewatching 17 Miracles the other week it is amazing what they went through for their faith and how hard they fought to keep it. 3
Scott Lloyd Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 As I sit here watching the Days of 47 Parade and enjoying the Pioneer Day tributes I though we might want to take a moment to express our gratitude for everything the pioneers went through to keep our Church together and establish the thriving Mormon community in the middle of the desert that allowed the Church to grow. After rewatching 17 Miracles the other week it is amazing what they went through for their faith and how hard they fought to keep it.I appreciate this. I attended the annual Days of '47 Sunrise Service this morning in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. I am at this moment working on a Church News report of the speech given by Elder L. Whitney Clayton of the Presidency of the Seventy. I'll post a link when it is on line. 1
mfbukowski Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 We are all pioneers in our individual lives, and one bomb or other emergency away from pulling handcarts again ourselves. 1
CV75 Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 As I sit here watching the Days of 47 Parade and enjoying the Pioneer Day tributes I though we might want to take a moment to express our gratitude for everything the pioneers went through to keep our Church together and establish the thriving Mormon community in the middle of the desert that allowed the Church to grow. After rewatching 17 Miracles the other week it is amazing what they went through for their faith and how hard they fought to keep it.Here, here!
Scott Lloyd Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 Here, here!I think you mean "Hear, Hear!" But I get your sentiment.
Scott Lloyd Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 As I sit here watching the Days of 47 Parade and enjoying the Pioneer Day tributes I though we might want to take a moment to express our gratitude for everything the pioneers went through to keep our Church together and establish the thriving Mormon community in the middle of the desert that allowed the Church to grow. After rewatching 17 Miracles the other week it is amazing what they went through for their faith and how hard they fought to keep it.I watched that movie last night. My 8-year-old insisted I hunt up the DVD and put it on. In so doing, she reduced me to tearful blubbering. Some movies have that effect no matter how many times I've seen them. The "Tiny Tim has died" scene in "A Christmas Carol" always does it to me, and I've seen it every year for the past five decades or so. 1
Garden Girl Posted July 24, 2014 Posted July 24, 2014 I watched that movie last night. My 8-year-old insisted I hunt up the DVD and put it on. In so doing, she reduced me to tearful blubbering. Some movies have that effect no matter how many times I've seen them. The "Tiny Tim has died" scene in "A Christmas Carol" always does it to me, and I've seen it every year for the past five decades or so. Hello Scott...I know exactly what you mean... for me, also, are some of our hymns. I've been reactivated 19 years... hardly seems possible... but I can never hear "Dear To The Heart of the Shepherd" that sometimes I just have to put a kleenex over my eyes and just quietly sob... the chorus is what does it... "Out in the desert they wander, hungry and helpless and cold... off to the rescue he hastens, bringing them back to the fold." See there... tears in my eyes... This is because I wandered spiritually for all those years, and finally heeded the Spirit and came back to the fold... The faith of those pioneers gives me similar feelings... particularly when they were driven from homes and farms... just to pick up and leave with what you could throw into a wagon or handcart... the handcarts really get to me... but it's the turning away from their farmland and walking out the front door of their homes, leaving behind what they had worked so hard to carve out, only to have to do it again. I sometimes wonder if I would have had the faith... GG
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