Salt Lake City Chapter

Last 2 months - July and August
We recommended the July 4th celebrations and SUPerDUPer Day at This Is The Place Park held in the Pavilion to the west side of the park (no admission fee).

Emily Belle Freeman, General Young Women's President, was the featured speaker at the SUPerDUPer Day event, and she treated us to a display of an ancestor's skill at quilt making, a cryptic entry in one ancestor's journal "Left the Mississippi and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley without seeing one particle of rain or snow."   and said "that's all we have!"   She shared the common threads she has found in pioneer histories, parallels between the people of Israel in the Old Testament and the pioneers, and the Latter-day Saints today, "Susanna Stone Lloyd (who sacrificed everything to come to Zion, including trading her last possession - a mirror - for some buffalo meat), and the Church News article includes some inspirational reactions from some young women who heard her stories.   ((A bonus - some Salt Lake City Chapter members made the photo))

Elder Evan A. Schmutz of the Seventy was the featured speaker at the Days of '47 Sunrise Service held on the 24th of July at the Chapel at 95 State Street.   Then there was the Days of '47 Parade, both of which were well worth attending.

Elder Schmutz offered 5 key principles that today's Saints can learn from the pioneers.   He also pointed out that Brigham Young asked William Clayton, a member of the Council of Fifty, to write a song to encourage Church members in their anticipated darkest times as they left Nauvoo to go west, and within two hours he penned the lyrics to 'Come, Come Ye Saints', and Elder Schmutz said "Surely the Lord revealed this hymn as a comfort and a strength to His people in their coming trials".

We left August open which is generally full of family reunions, vacation escapes, school. preparations, or just staying out of the heat.   We welcome you back to our fall programs.