Munchkin Land: Trek Day 2

When we woke up the second day of trek. It wasn't raining, but it was cloudy still. As we were taking down our tents and getting ready to leave the sun peaked through the clouds and to say the least we all yelled "Yeah", because we hadn't seen the sun since about 2:00 the day before. We were very grateful for the sun at that point. So we got our camp all packed up and ate breakfast and then it was time to go. So we all lined up and started off. We were going back the same way we came the day before for a while(about 4 miles). Then we broke off that trail and headed towards Martin's Cove. That was about a mile from where we broke off from the other trail. When we got there we ate lunch. It started raining really hard right after we got there and got under the pavilion. After we ate lunch our stake president and the 1st counselor in the stake presidency met us up there to talk to us about Martin's Cove and some the pioneer experiences. One of the youth got up and sang "Come, Come Ye Saints". It was beautiful and really brought the spirit to get us all ready to go into the cove. It was a mile walk around in the cove. A little before we started our walk around the cove it stopped raining and the sun came back out. It was really wonderful to see where the Martin Company was while they were waiting out the storm. Half way through there is an area where some of the missionaries that are up there tell some of the stories of the Martin company while they were waiting out the storm. It was really amazing to be where they were.

Getting to the pavilions by Martin's Cove

Of course during this presentation it started to rain really hard. It stopped about 10 minutes later, just enough for everyone to get wet. It was really neat to see how fast the clouds move in and out of those mountains. The view as you are walking out of the cove was beautiful. We didn't take our handcarts into the cove, so that we could focus on where we were and what had happened there. Once we got back to our hand carts we had about a mile to go to where we met the buses and right as we were getting on the buses it started to poor again. I want to point out one wonderful miracle and blessing that we had during that day, and this was just about every time it started to rain hard we were somewhere under a covering so that we didn't get wet. This helped a lot in keeping the youth's attitude happy.

Now we were headed to our next camping area "The sixth crossing". Once we got to our camping area it was still raining, so we stayed on the bus for a minute to find out what we were going to do. They let us know to all get off the buses and go under the little pavilions that were all around the camp ground. Then they sent all the youth back to the buses and had all the Ma's and Pa's stay and help set up tents and cook dinner. It was really fun because Matt and I got to know some of the Ma's and Pa's a little better. Once dinner was ready it had stopped raining. So we ate dinner as families and got all of our stuff put in our tents and went to bed. To say the least we were all really tired. It was definitely a theme of the trek. I can only imagine how tired the pioneers were when they stopped every night. They were very strong & faithful people to do all that they did. I am very grateful that I was able to experience just a little of what they did.