I mean, the pioneer story for Latter-day Saints is a story of heroism and a story of tragedy

and a story of people doing really hard and remarkable things.

These people were motivated by a sense of gathering and building a community, right?

That this is a religious enterprise.

These are people who feel called by God.

Of course, it's not enough just to arrive at the location.

The actual migration was a matter of months.

The staying here and the building the kingdom,

in some ways that was the hard part.

And that took years and year after year after year

of working together and working to build design

that they had envisioned, right?

And most of our lives is the staying

and the continuing and the building.

I'm Sarah Jane Weaver, editor of the church news. Welcome to the church news podcast. We are taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news and events of the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints.

This is the place, four simple words uttered by a prophet that confirmed visions gave people

their home and have become synonymous with the valley that headquarters the Church of Jesus

Christ of

Latter-day Saints. On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young spoke those words as a company of pioneers

arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, where the church finally settled, building a community and a temple.

Now 175 years later, we celebrate that momentous occasion, the pioneers who made

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