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In commemoration of July 24th, a Utah state holiday in which communities across the state fly the U.S. flag in celebration of the Latter-day Saint arrival in northern Mexico in July 1847, here is a #PioneerDay 101 🧵 
The Saints did not wander aimlessly westward until Brigham Young declared “This is the Place.” As early as September 1845 Brigham Young had zeroed in on the Salt Lake Valley.
On 9 September 1845, Brigham Young declared to the Council of 50 in Nauvoo: “it has been proved that there is not much difficulty in sending people beyond the mountains. We have designed sending them somewhere near the Great Salt Lake.”
All is not well.
Today, my people remember that our literal and spiritual ancestors once had to flee their homes and their country to seek refuge for their families. They traveled in a large group for safety and support taking whatever they could carry. 1/
Today, my people remember that our literal and spiritual ancestors once had to flee their homes and their country to seek refuge for their families. They traveled in a large group for safety and support taking whatever they could carry. 1/
Hasty graves marked the wake of the caravan from the many who died along the way, including children; but the families who left felt the dangerous journey was their only way to be safe, free, and prosperous. They did not stop in the first place they could, 2/
but went on to the place they felt was best, "Far away, in the West." "This is the place," they declared. We too were refugees once.
But in our search for asylum, our efficient colonization also displaced the Native inhabitants 3/
But in our search for asylum, our efficient colonization also displaced the Native inhabitants 3/
Every year, the state of #Utah memorializes the entry of Brigham Young and the first group of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) settlers into the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. 2/X
In the 1830s, Joseph Smith founded the LDS Church (formerly known as the Church of Christ) when he established this religious movement on the east coast of the United States. 3/X
