Journey To Saint George Cotton mission 1861
Artist  Michael Bedard Art copyrighted ©

This painting captures the beautiful, stark, wild and barren landscape of southern utah. Brigham Young, the prophet, called the pioneer saints to settle Saint George and the outlying areas. 

     Brigham knew the saints would soon be in short supply of cotton, due to the Civil War which began in 1861 between the North and the South. For this reason, he established the Cotton Mission of 1861 in Saint George, which  would become known as “Utah’s Dixie”

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Noble Parents 

Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith 

Artist  Michael Bedard Art copyrighted ©

                     These noble parents, Joseph smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith  raised the young boy Joseph Smith. Jr. , who become the instraument in the Lord’s hand to retore the, “ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints”. 

      Joseph Smith Jr. wrote concerning his father: “He was a great and a good man. The envy of knaves and fools was heaped upon him. . . . He was of noble stature and possessed a high, and holy, and exalted, and virtuous mind. . . . I love my father and his memory; and the memory of his noble deeds rests with ponderous weight upon my mind, and many of his kind and parental words to me are written on the tablet of my heart.”In a revelation given through Joseph Smith four months after the death of his father, the Lord refers to “my aged servant Joseph Smith, Sen., who sitteth with Abraham at his right hand, and blessed and holy is he, for he is mine” (D&C 124:19).

      Joseph paid tribute to his mother during the dark days of persecution in 1842: “My mother also is one of the noblest and best of all women. May God grant to prolong her days and mine, that we may live to enjoy each other’s society long, yet in the enjoyment of liberty, and to breathe the free air.”   Documentary History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 26

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