Trek Fireside/Stake Dance

A fireside will be held right before the stake dance on November 12th. It will be at the Island City chapel at 7 p.m. and will be for the youth ages 14 and up. Sister Warburton has written a wonderful program to get you excited for the trek next summer.

Joseph F. Brickey

Ever Onward

"Mother used to tell us children some of her experience. She would say, 'I could write a book of my life and not tell half of the suffering we went through on our journey over the plains. We took all our bedding and the family Bible with our records written in, but we had to throw them away on the plains.' . . . [Her father, Ole Madsen] pulled his handcart all day without having anything to eat. At last one evening he rolled up in scanty covers, laid down and passed away. That same night several others died . . . they who died that night were laid in a small ditch with their boots or shoes on and covered. That night the wolves howled all night. They believed the wolves had uncovered the bodies and were eating them."

Anna Johansen, speaking about her mother, Christina Madsen Christiansen

Jolene S. Allphin, Tell My Story Too, p. 78.