Pioneers

March 1, 1846-July 24,1847

Pioneers 70,000 pioneers

1300 miles. 500-512 days

5 states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah

Walked six days and rested on Sunday's: camped, read, prayed

Danced- VA Reel

Sang songs

Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow were first to arrive in salt lake valley

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512 days walking

Across Iowa, 1846

The beginning of the great trek west really commenced 1 March 1846 on the frozen banks of Sugar Creek in Lee County, Iowa, seven miles west of the Mississippi River. On that day approximately three thousand men, women, and children in about five hundred wagons formally abandoned Nauvoo, Illinois, the City of Joseph, as a result of misunderstandings and mob activities.

Melchizedek / Aaronic Priesthoods

DC 107:18-20

18 The power and authority of the higher, or Melchizedek Priesthood, is to hold the keys of all the spiritual blessings of the church--

19 To have the privilege of receiving the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, to have the heavens opened unto them, to commune with the general assembly and church of the Firstborn, and to enjoy the communion and presence of God the Father, and Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.

20 The power and authority of the lesser, or Aaronic Priesthood, is to hold the keys of the ministering of angels, and to administer in outward ordinances, the letter of the gospel, the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, agreeable to the covenants and commandments.