What the first Mormon pioneers did when they got to Utah. Ep. 171 

One of the points of interest, to me, was they built a bath house. I'm 94 and I can remember my mother taking me to the bath house, in New Haven, Ct. Back in 1932. We enjoy so many blessings, today. Can you imagine how physically hard things were then?

Wow! I didn’t know a month after arriving they turned around to help the other saints🥺 Grateful for the Gospel

Thank you!! Wonderful information and context

Very well done 👏 ✔️ 👍

One of my family members join the church in 1840 in Nauvoo when he lived in iwoa later came to Utah in 1852.

Incredible Vid!! Keep this going!💖💖💫

Great video 👍 I love this channel

My great, great, great, great, great grandma delivered the first baby born in the Salt Lake valley. Her son is the founder of Bountiful. It used to be called Sessions Settlement until Brigham Young came to visit and quoted a scripture that mentioned the land of Bountiful.

I’m from slc, Born an raised. I’m mixed race half B/W I just learn tonight that my white lineage was Mormon pilgrims. I always knew that side was Norman but I never knew it went back so far. So that’s why I’m here.. Very interesting

Very informative! Thank you

What software did you use to make the video? I love it.

What a story. Can you imagine people today walking 1,000 miles through barren rough hostile lands with nothing but what they can carry. Going to an "empty" land and transforming it. Kids today can't even walk a mile to school. I moved to Cedar City Utah from the Peoples Republic of California last year. I thank the pioneers that came before me, and the the big Chernobyl like Grass Hoppers are still here...everywhere.

You should make a video about the pioneers arriving Mexico, for that country is where they went to. Only a year later became American territory. But the Gadsden Purchase area was Mexican another extra 6/7 years later: "The Battalion’s march and service supported the eventual cession of much of the American Southwest from Mexico to the United States, especially the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 of southern Arizona and New Mexico. The march also opened a southern wagon route to California. Veterans of the Battalion played significant roles in America's westward expansion in California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and other parts of the West." (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Battalion) The Mormon Battalion take a protagonist role in La Mesilla/Gadsden Purchase area when still was Mexican territory. I don't know if La Mesilla area was settled by Mormon pioneers prior to becoming American, but I wouldn't be surprised. The western colonization by members of the Church of Jesus Christ if Latter-day Saints not only spanned American borders, but western Canada & northern Mexico. There are still thriving colonies in both neighboring countries including even temples. There are far more LDS pioneer stories in both North American countries bordering the States. In Mexico there are heroic stories during the Mexican revolution. The point is that for our pioneers Mexico played an important role of land of refuge. I don't believe that it has been intentionally, but this story of Mexico as a land of refuge for the saints has been overlooked. Some LDS scholars think that Mexico will hold the New Jerusalem. More are inclined to believe that at least the part that exceeds the size of the USA in Mexico is where the New Jerusalem will lay.

Good to see that in this chapter there was a small reference to the fact that they were escaping to Mexico. No mention that they did it as illegal immigrants. Back then you need a permit from Mexico and needed to convert to Catholicism. The Mexican government will assign the land. Austin immigrated to Texas with permits and accepting the conditions of becoming a Mexican Citizen. A decade later after Mexico abolished slavery in Texas, Austin decided to fight for independence, so they could keep their slaves. That gave us the Almo, the Texas Revolution, which fueled the Mexican American War, which fueled the Civil War, which ended in the second abolition of slavery in Texas, aka Juneteenth.

Look up Iosepa, Utah

I have a great great something grandfather that turned back around to help saints coming to Utah. his family was weeks behind him. he was chased down my native Americans who were going to kill him but unbuttoned his shirt and saw his garments and then said to him your with Brigham young ? you can pass through our territory . he also saw wolfs digging up the bodies that had passed on the way to Utah eating them. he reached his family to learn that his dad had died. he kept going to see his dad's grave. tuff man . great video as always you guys should do videos on different pioneer stories

You left out the massacre that happened on July 24. They didn’t come there and settled that easy.

how did the people from England get to america

What made Brigham Young qualified to pick Salt Lake Valley as “The Place?”

It's utay, not "yoot" isn't it lmao

Now I ain't saying I'm a gold digger, but they ain't messin with this Truth Seeker

They were the first MORMON pioneers, but others lived there before and there were other pioneers before them, Escalante and Dominguez 2 priests came there in 1776 on an expedition and the land belonged to Mexico, not that they were great but, they didn't put the indigenous Indians on reservations, nor did they take their lands. so, people knew about Utah that's why they went there and took over. let's be real.

What happened to Uncle Tom, I loved watching him make it seemed like Brigham Young thought he wasn’t cursed.. Also according to Brigham Young the native Indians were cursed.. Prophets are suppose to be innocent of sin. So his declarations should be considered similar to doctrine in terms of infallibility of source, UNLESS he is not innocent of sin then you should second guess everything they say

NOT TRUE: the re-baptism and re-ordaination was a reformation of the church with new doctrine and practices. They called it the new order of things. The growth rate of the church 20 years prior to the introduction of polygamy was over 250% on average and the growth of the church 20 years after the introduction of polygamy was 3% on average. This shows that polygamy had a huge negative impact on the growth of the church. Although you have been told that polygamy was instituted to grow the church it never did. Even the fundamentalist were never able to grow very good through the practice of polygamy. The true way to grow exponentially is by having doctrine people can believe in and missionary work. You bring in 15 families on a mission, then those members send 30 men on missions that each bring in 15 families, making a total of 450 new member families. I guess God didn't know the damage polygamy would cause, unless...(it didn't come from God?)

These are great. Very well put together.