Pioneer Trek Permission and Medical Form is due by May 15

Please get your form filled out and signed and turned into your Ward Leaders.

How the Lord blesses us in our trials - as he blessed the handcart pioneers:

President Hiskey shared the following inspirational quote during a recent Trek planning meeting:

"How could we expect to be joyous and to receive all that the Father hath if we do not strive to become like Him? And, in fact, can we on our scale, be like Him without sharing in the "fellowship of His suffering."? He shares with us His work; does that not suggest the need for our sharing too, some of the suffering?......

If in all of this there is some understandable trembling, and adrenaline of affliction can help to ensure that our pace will be brisk rather than casual. His grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold. The seeming cold is there to keep us from drowsiness, and gospel gladness warms us enough to keep going."

Elder Neal A Maxwell 1982

Legacy of Faith - April

All those going on the Trek should be working on their Legacy of Faith award, to prepare for the Trek. Below is the list of things to accomplish during the month of April:

Physical Preparation

• Continue walking, running or biking 3 times per week.
• Continue drinking 8-10 BIG glasses of water per day.
• Continue breaking in 2 pairs of shoes and 1 pair of thick socks and 1 pair of thin socks. 
• Prepare 5 gallon bucket with supplies

Spiritual Preparation

• Read Book of Mormon 25 minutes per day
• Daily prayer 2 times a day
• Give a talk in sacrament meeting or YM/YW
• Journal Entry – What legacy might I want to leave to my posterity?
• Read Elder Ballard’s conference talk in the May 1997 Ensign p. 59-61.

Historical Preparation

• Choose a Pioneer name for the Trek
• Prepare Trek journal
• Visit a local cemetery

Legacy of Faith - March

All those going on the Trek should be working on their Legacy of Faith award, to prepare for the Trek. Below is the list of things to accomplish during the month of March. Also included is the list of optional activities:

Do each of the following:

 Read the scriptures and pray daily 

 Read President Brigham Young’s address to the saints as recorded by William Clayton, pg. 1-2 in the Legacy of Faith Guidebook. 

 Read pg. 2-3, 11-13 and 20-21 in the For the Strength of Youth. Record your personal feelings in your journal regarding the responsibility you have to conduct yourself in accordance with one who bears the name of Jesus Christ. 

 Read the message from the First Presidency in the For the Strength of Youth (pg. ii-iii).  

 Read the accounts in the Legacy of Faith Guidebook on pg. 2-4. This Guidebook can be downloaded from: http://tinyurl.com/a23fcqn

 Begin looking for someone to represent on the Trek. This may be an ancestor, a particular pioneer or a modern day family member whom you respect and admire.

Do one or more of the following:

 Watch “Legacy”—church pioneer movie 
 Tour the Beehive House 
 Journal Entry—What is a pioneer and how can I be a modern day pioneer?

 One of the “Other Optional Activities”

Physical Preparation:

 Walk, run or bike 2 miles 

 Start breaking in a pair of shoes for the Trek (brand new shoes will cause sore feet and blisters if not broken in before the Trek)

Optional Activities:

 Perform baptisms for the dead 

 Bear your testimony in Fast and Testimony meeting 

 Give a talk in Sacrament meeting 

 Learn more about one of your ancestors 

 Visit Temple Square 

 Visit the Pioneer Museum in Provo 

 Make and share a pioneer recipe 

 Teach your family a pioneer dance or game 

 Any activities listed on previous months 

 Any activities your parents or leaders approve

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