Activity Date Changes

In order to accommodate our large stake, we have divided up the hiking and service acitivities, as follows:

April 30th- 5th, 6th and 7th wards will do the service activity. 

April 30th- 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 11th wards will hike Ensign Peak and 1st Encampment Park. 

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May 7th- 5th, 6th and 7th wards will hike Ensign Peak and 1st Encampment Park.

May 7th- 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 11th wards will do the service activity.

(4th Ward already did their service activity and will still hike on Tuesday, May 6th.)

If you have scheduling conflicts due to your service project, feel free to go on the original nights.

Thanks-

The Stake YW and YM Presidencies

Family Service Project

April 30^th

Trek Family Service Project

As a trek family, you choose a service project that you want to do for this activity. Some ideas are listed below, but these are only suggestions. Feel free to be creative!! You are welcome to combine with other families in your ward, but you do not need to.

Remember to take a few minutes at the end of the activity to add the journal glue-in and record your thoughts about the activity into your journals. (Don’t forget pens and glue-sticks)

This activity covers one of the spiritual preparation goals for the Trail of Faith Award.

Encourage your trek children to look at their Duty to God requirement in the Serve Others Section of the Priesthood Duties OR Personal Progress Good Works #6. This service project can help the youth complete those requirements.

Service Project Ideas:

*Bake cookies together and deliver to the fire station or police station

*Make homemade cards.  Drop them off at a rehabilitation center or hospital
*Put together a care package for a missionary or member of the military 

*Find an area in town that is dirty and littered and clean it up!

*Singing at a nursing home

*Make/deliver blankets or hats to homeless shelter

*Make blankets, quilts, or dolls for Primary Children’s Hospital

*Organize a board game night at your local nursing home

*Decorate placemats for Meals on Wheels

 *Volunteer at an animal shelter- play with the dogs and cats, help to brush them, and clean up after them

*Babysit for children while parents attend the temple

*Collect, make, or recondition toys or games for a nursery

*Clean the meetinghouse

*Perform errands or read to a homebound person or others in need

*Canned food drive

*Book drive for the library

*Help make flour bags for TREK***

*** The stake leaders will be making 4 oz flour bags to represent the daily rations of the pioneers for each trekker to carry. We would willingly accept any help in putting these bags together. This includes measuring flour into plastic bags, cutting fabric into small rectangles, and/or sewing the fabric bags closed.(Any families interested in helping flour bags for your service project, contact Deena Peterson 801-420-5321 or deenapete6@gmail.com to coordinate and get supplies.)

TREK service project handout

SERVICE PROJECT JOURNAL GLUE-IN

And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God. Mosiah 2:17

Following the Pioneers--DALLIN H. OAKS

It is not enough to study or reenact the accomplishments of our pioneers...

The foremost quality of our pioneers was faith…two companion qualities evident in the lives of our pioneers, early and modern, are unselfishness and sacrifice. Our Utah pioneers excelled at putting “the general welfare and community goals over individual gain and personal ambition.”

These pioneer qualities …are as vital today as when they guided the actions of our pioneer forebears, early and modern. To honor those pioneers, we must honor and act upon the eternal principles that guided their actions. As President Hinckley [reminds us], “We honor best those who have gone before when we serve well in the cause of truth.” That cause of truth is the cause of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose servants they were, and whose servants we should strive to be.

Nellie Pucell Unthank

(An excerpt from an article written by W. Paul Reev, History Blazer, August 1995)

[9 year old Nellie Pucell endured the handcart trail with the Martin Company. She suffered severe frostbite and her legs had to be amputated below the knee.] Due to the primitive surgical conditions the wound healed poorly, and bones protruded from the end of Nellie's stumps. She spent the rest of her life waddling on her knees in constant pain.

She married William Unthank, bore six children and lived in poverty. She was, however, accustomed to facing challenges and did all in her power to make the most of her situation. Even while living in a log cabin she kept her home immaculately clean. To help meet her family's needs she took in laundry, knitted stockings to sell, carded wool, and crocheted table pieces. At times, however, she could not provide all the essentials for her children and received assistance from her Mormon bishop. As repayment for this aid and out of deeply felt gratitude, she and her children yearly scrubbed and washed the church where they worshiped each Sunday. Nellie spent most of her life in similar quiet acts of service, not only for her church but also for her family and neighbors. 

true to the faith handout

“True to the Faith” 

President Gordon B. Hinckley

“Whether you are among the posterity of the pioneers or whether you were baptized only yesterday, each is the beneficiary of their great undertaking.”

“Most noble, as we’ve heard, among those who paid a terrible price were the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies of 1856.”

“There were not wagons enough to carry all who were converted in England and western Europe. If they were to come to Zion, they would have to walk, pulling a small cart behind them. Hundreds did so, and traveled faster than did the ox teams. But these two companies in 1856 literally walked with death. They started late, and no one knew they were coming. Their carts were not ready. A few who could afford wagons were assigned to travel with them to give assistance. They started west singing as they went. Little did they know what lay ahead of them.”

“They walked beside the Platte, ever westward. Near Fort Laramie their troubles began. Snow commenced falling. Their rations were reduced. They knew they were in desperate circumstances as they slowly crept over the high plains of Wyoming. Some 200 perished in that terrible, tragic march.”

“Legion are the stories of those who were there and who suffered almost unto death and who carried all of their lives the scars of that dreadful experience. It was a tragedy without parallel in the western migration of our people.”

“With so great an inheritance, we can do no less than our very best. Those who have gone before expect this of us. We have a mandate from the Lord. We have a vision of our cause and purpose.”

“Let us seek out the righteous of the earth who will listen to our message of salvation. Let us bring light and truth and understanding to a generation that is prone in its disillusionment to look for other things.”

“God has blessed us with wonderful facilities in which to teach the living truth. We now have meetinghouses scattered across the continents. Let us use them to nurture our people with “the good word of God.” ^{6 “}

Daughters of Utah Pioneers Activity (2nd, 3rd, 4th and 7th Wards)

Trek Activity for April 2^nd  (for 2^nd , 3^rd , and 7^th Wards) 

(April 1st for 4th Ward)

Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Pioneer Memorial Museum
300 N. Main St., SLC 84103

Preparation:

·       Arrange for transportation for your trek family. YM and YW presidencies should be included as resources. (Parents of youth can be recruited if more drivers are needed)

·       Announce the meeting time and leaving time to all of your trek youth and their parents. You will be participating as a trek family but you are welcome to combine with the other families in your ward if desired.

·       Make sure you have enough copies of the “Museum Scavenger Hunt” and the “True to the Faith” quote from President Hinckley for everyone.

·       Bring the youth’s Trek Journals so they can make an entry after the museum experience.

·       Encourage the youth to bring a pen/pencil for the scavenger hunt and journal entry. (You may want to bring some extras just in caseJ). If you plan to do the “True to the Faith” glue in during the activity you will need glue sticks as well.

Recommended Time: 6:00pm meet at ward house. Leave at 6:15pm. Adjust to a slightly later start time if needed however, the museum closes at 8pm on Wednesday nights (5pm other nights) so leaving at 6:15pm will allow for one hour at the museum. Ask someone to offer a prayer before you head out.

At the Museum:

·       Designate a meeting time and place for the activity to end.

·       Give everyone a copy of “Museum Scavenger Hunt.”

·       This will be a self-guided tour through the museum to try and find as many items on the scavenger hunt list as possible.

·       Please remind the youth to be respectful. No running around or being loud.

Before leaving the museum, on the way home, or back at the church:

·       Give time for the youth to record thoughts, impressions, feelings, something learned, etc. in their journals.

·       If possible, have the youth glue the “True to the Faith” quote in their journals. This may require time at a future activity if time before, during, or after the museum does not permit.

Purpose of this activity:

·       Help the youth better appreciate what everyday life was like in the days of the pioneers.

·       See what the pioneers carried with them on their trek west.

·       Understand a little deeper the sacrifices the pioneers made.

·       Have FUN!!

Driving Directions (Approx. 40-45 min. drive time):

1.     Head north on I-15

2.     Take exit 309 to 600 N.  (Approximately 26.5 miles from 2100 N. in Lehi)

3.     After exiting the freeway turn right (east) onto 600 N.

4.     Travel about 0.6 miles to 300 W.

5.     Turn right (south) onto 300 W.

6.     Travel about 0.5 miles to 300 N.

7.     Turn left (east) onto 300 N.

8.     Travel about 0.4 miles to Main St.

9.     Take a sharp left turn (north) onto Main St.

10.  The museum will be on your right.

Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Museum Scavenger Hunt

As you look around the museum answer these two questions:

1.     What item from pioneer days do you wish you could have used?_______________________________________

2.     What item are you glad you didn’t have to use?_____________________________________________________

Scavenger Hunt!!!  Try to answer these questions as you go through the museum:

Main Floor:

1.     Name the woman who wore the leather mask to protect from the blowing sand?__________________________

2.     How many people can sit at Brigham Young’s desk at the same time?___________________________________

3.     My favorite item/display on this floor was_________________________________________________________

Second Floor:

1.     Whose piano was buried along the pioneer trail? What was it wrapped in before being buried?______________
___________________________________________________________________________________________

2.     Who are 3 famous people represented by dolls in the Doll Room?______________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________

3.     In the Clothing Room, what material was used to make Luke Johnson’s clothes?___________________________

4.     My favorite item/display on this floor was­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_________________________________________________________

Third Floor:

1.     Who carved his own wooden leg?________________________________________________________________

2.     What are two types of material used to make pioneer canes? (Foyer)___________________________________

3.     What are 3 Utah symbols on the 1947 Centennial Gowns?____________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________

4.     My favorite item/display on this floor was_________________________________________________________

Basement:

1.     What year was the two-headed lamb born?________________________________________________________

2.     Which explorer used the snow shoes?_____________________________________________________________

3.     What item was made by Native Americans from a flour sack?__________________________________________

4.     My favorite item/display on this floor was_________________________________________________________

*Feel free to walk around the Carriage House but there are no questions to answer.