![]() ![]() He was only four years old and … quite sick with the measles but I took him since my mother had all she could do to care for the other children. “The company we were assigned to had gone on ahead and as my mother was anxious for me to go with them she strapped my little brother James on my back with a shawl. There were many of the company who were frozen that year on their journey. … Afterwards, we were very thankful because of the great suffering, privation and cold weather to which these people were subjected. Richards counseled my father not to go with them. “After landing we planned to go west to Utah with the Martin and Willey handcart companies but Elder Franklin D. My great-grandmother Margaret McNeil Ballard recorded in her journal a pioneer experience of sacrifice that occurred when she was between nine and eleven years of age. ![]() Many of us are descendants of hardy pioneers, and we feel grateful and inspired by their faith-promoting examples of sacrifice. In my mind’s eye, I see the suffering of those faithful Saints and know that in their extremity, under circumstances hard for us today to conceive, many of them came to know God in a way that few people will ever understand. ![]() Again and again, I find my thoughts returning to the high, snow-covered, windswept plains of Wyoming. The images engendered in my mind and heart have not left me. Our hearts were softened and our spirits grew tender with emotion as we listened to him recount experiences of some of those hardy handcart pioneers. Hinckley called to our attention some of the poignant experiences of our pioneer forefathers whose sacrifices helped them lay the foundation of the restored Church. In his Sunday morning address, President Gordon B. Last October we listened to many inspired conference messages. ![]()
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