With the annual pioneer day approaching — a day celebrating the Saints arrival to the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847 — youth in many wards and stakes around the country are donning pioneer garb to reenact the trek of early Church members across the plains. For many, trek is something they have prepared and looked forward to for months, even years. For the modern-day pioneers in Mongolia where the Church is still very young, it was a senior missionary couple that started the ball rolling for the youth to experience their first pioneer trek.
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