A taste of the handcart experience is available to anyone who wants to try it. We took pictures of young people from Sandy, Utah who were camping and pulling their carts. Lessons in history, perseverance, and sacrifice are waiting to be learned by all of us. Of the 3000 handcart pioneers, about 1/6 of them died before their journey's end in Zion. And yet, according to Handcarts to Zion, written by LeRoy r. and Ann W. Hafen in 1976, their progeny total half a million. My faith is strengthened by the example of these early saints in their willingness to presevere and endure for the unfathomable blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I continually pray I can endure the vicissitudes of life as valiantly.
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