Here it is! My Top Trek Tales :)
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| Here we are on the first day Square Dancing. Dust was everywhere! |
1. Bus rides! ha ha Just kidding. The bus rides were so
long and so much a part of my week I think I have to include the time
that I spent on the bus . . . with no air conditioner and lots of happy
kids :)
2. Our trek family: Our family was awesome! I wish I could put a
picture up but as I was only a temp parent I better not :( They were so
mature and respectful and overall awesome. We got so lucky!
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| This was our campsite on the first day. |
3. Hiking: 15 miles on the first day and about 7 on the second day. My feet were so so so sore! But Dalan and I escaped without any blisters! The long hike was our favorite. Our group was probably the smallest group by numbers and by size and they did better than many of the other families. We rock. P.s. One of our family members may or may not have counted his steps, 10,500 of his steps to be exact. Just think about that.
4. Women's Pull: This part of the hike represented a time when the men were all called away and the women had to pull the carts and take care of the children all alone. We had a mini devotional before we did it and it was beautiful. We sang Sisters in Zion and then we began our pull through the sandy trail. It was hard. I have a lot of respect for the pioneer women.
This picture is of all the men standing in a line as we pulled the carts. I saw many, many tears drop as they had to stand and watch.
5. Jens and Elsie Neilson: After the Women's Pull our handcart was pulled to the side for an unexplained reason. A few minutes later Dalan and I were also pulled aside and we were asked to reenact the story of Jens and Elsie Neilson. The story is this. Jens had walked so far and his feet had become frozen and deformed. He couldn't walk no more. To him his only option was to have his wife leave him behind to die. She couldn't leave him behind and instead insisted that he ride in the handcart. She was 5 feet tall and he was a big man, yet she pulled him. I love this story of love and devotion. When they asked us to do this I just started crying. When we started acting Dalan had to have a limp and then fall, we were far enough away that no one could see out faces and we were laughing about our acting skills. When Dalan had to jump in the cart he felt so bad. And my heart broke. I started pulling and about a minute later the cart started moving. It was so hard. If I stopped we would go down hill backwards. Finally, kids that they had chosen to be angels came running to my rescue. The boys came to the front and pulled and the girls ran to the back to push. The boys lifted the handcart so that I could not push at all. I can only imagine that the angels ran when they helped Elsie and they run to help us too.
6. Devotional: We were lucky to have a speaker come after the first day and he had some of the greatest stories. His name was President Lorimer and he was in the middle of purchasing the Sun Ranch and Rocky Ridge. He had such great stories about our Prophets!! He was such a great balance of spiritual and humor and I loved it.
7. Martin's Cove: We had four of the Priests carry 12 of the Young Woman across Sweet Water. It was a really cool experience. Sitting in Martin's Cove was really a site to see also. I actually liked Dan Jone's Cove the best. I felt the spirit the very strongest there.
Sorry that this post is so long but this week was
PACKED with exciting things! Believe it or not I left a lot of great stories out!
Thank your Ancestors today :)
