Thoughts and stories, by Pal

This is a very interesting article, about pioneers wanting to go to "Zion".  I'm also going to post some about my pioneer ancestors.  I know that my own pioneer ancestors came for that reason, after having been persecuted a lot in Nauvoo, and other early settlements of the Saints.  I'll put more of our family pioneer stories on very soon. The Real Reason the Pioneers Came West By Maurine Proctor  · July 21, 2016 Image by Clark Kelley Price.  It was a September day in 1842 when George and Ann Quayle Cannon stood with their six children on the windswept dock at Liverpool ready to board the great ship  Sidney  for America. Crowds of emigrants thronged the gangplank, worried over details, and clutched a few remnants of the home they were about to leave behind.  They carried boxes, beds, and assorted bundles.  Some had cabbages, some cheese, some bread and butter stored in tins. Like so many others, the Cann...

I have combined 2 very interesting articles of Near Death Experiences.  Some of the last article is included in the first article.  If any of you have had loved ones pass on, th ese articles are very comfortimg.   This is especially interesting to me, as my beloved husband Wayne is now in the Spirit World, and I'm sure very happy and busy.  Today I played the piano for a singer in a funeral of a man who was born just 2 months before me!  When I read the obituaries most of them are younger than I am! Being 81 and 1/2 isn't bad at all!  I feel much younger in my mind and spirit. Brigham Young's Near-Death Experience and What It Taught Him About the Spirit World by Danielle B. Wagner  | Apr. 21, 2016 Makes You Think Mormon Life Near-Death Experiences Brigham Young was a man well acquainted with life and death. There were several times when Brigham Young's life was spared or his health inexplicably restored, accordi...

  I decided to split this entry into part 1 and part 2.  I realized it probably is too long for one entry, and as I am approaching 100 posts, I am re-thinking how I should do it.  I had one ancestor, Thomas Colborn, told about in the previous entry, who was in Zion's Camp.  This is a brief history of:                                                      ZION'S CAMP In the winter of 1833–34 the Saints in Jackson County, Missouri, were persecuted and driven out of their homes by enemy mobs . The Saints had very little food and no protection from the winter weather.  Church leaders in Missouri sent Parley P. Pratt and Lyman Wight to Kirtland to seek help and guidance from the Prophet Joseph Smith.  The Prophet received a revelation ( D&C 103 ) directing him to organize a group of men to march to Missouri and help ...

I decided to make this into two entries, as it was too long.  Please check entry # 99, # 2 which follows this story.  It tells details of Zion's Camp .    Early Church history has always fascinated me.  What inspiration the Prophet Joseph received, to be the instrument for setting up the true Church in these last days.  He received "line upon line".  One of those deciding experiences was when the Prophet Joseph took men on what has been historically called "Zion's Camp", in 1834.   Thomas Colborn, my gg grandfather was one of the men who went with Zion's Camp.  He was the son of Jonathan Colborn and Hannah Hamilton Colborn, born 3 August 1801, at Genoa, Cayuga County, New York.  He was baptized on April 15, 1833, and his wife Sarah on December 26, 1834.  I wish we had more details about their conversion.   As far as we can find out he is the only one of the family who accepted Mormonism, and he was opposed by his paren...