Mormon Batallion

Saturday before we left San Diego we stopped by the Mormon Battalion. The kids enjoyed panning for gold and it was cool for me to be on that end of it after having been where they left from just a few weeks earlier. I also gained a deeper appreciation this trip and for some of the reasons that they were asked to go. They learned so many things on that trip that benefited the saints when they got to Utah -like the men who got sick and were sent to Pueblo, Colorado and learned to use canals to irrigate, which was so useful when they reached the Salt Lake Valley. It increased my testimony that the Lord not only knows us, but He knows where we are going and the things we are going to need when we get there.