Trail of Hope - Nauvoo Pageant

Well, its been awhile.  The weeks fly by here now.  This morning I went down to the Trail of Hope where the saints lined up with their wagons and teams, waiting their turn to cross the Mississippi River to begin the westward trek.  The Nauvoo Pageant actors take the parts of some of the saints represented on the reader boards that have journal entries of some of the people as they left Nauvoo.  One of them said that the saints left most everything behind them in Nauvoo; their homes, fields and many of their belongings; the work of 7 years.  But what they took with them was their testimony that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Savior of the world and their knowledge that His church has been restored to the earth through a living prophet.  That knowledge allowed them to leave with peace in their hearts, knowing that the Savior cared for them individually, was aware of them and would guide and direct them.  One of the brethren said that that knowledge is what will sustain us on our own Trails of Hope.  I left with a feeling of peace and of being loved by my Savior and my Heavenly Father; a witness from the Holy Ghost that those things are as true in our lives today as they were in the lives of the Latter=day Saints in 1846 as they left Nauvoo.  Love you all.  Mom