With yesterday being Pioneer Day and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrating this special holiday this past weekend, I started thinking about our individual pioneer heritage. A lovely sister in my ward who is originally from the Philippines spoke in Sacrament Meeting about pioneers, including the Utah pioneers, pioneers in the Philippines, and pioneers in Saudi Arabia where she lived for a time.
On my paternal side of my family I'm a multi-generational pioneer, but on my maternal side my grandparents converted to the Church. My grandmother of course believed that she didn't have a pioneer heritage, but years later when she began to research her Family History she discovered that she came from a broken line of pioneers. She found that a few generations back she had relatives who had been converts to the church, and even owned land in Nauvoo before the Mormon Pioneers left Illinois, but at some point the line of descendants she came through had stopped going to church. My grandmother, through her own conversion, had reconnected the "lost" line that had come from the inactivity of her ancestors.
So what generation of pioneer are you? Do you come from a long line of pioneers or are you and your family paving the way as pioneers for your future descendants?
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