Follow Me to Zion

Have you seen this book! It is not only full of beautiful pictures, but full of amazing stories.  It is a compilation of stories from the Willie Handcart Pioneers.  

I was so excited to see this picture in the book.  This is a relative of mine named Rhoda Rebecca Oakey.  My wonderful grandma is an Oakey and there was a whole 10 pages written about Thomas and Ann Collette Oakey….my great great great (maybe one more great) grandparents.  I read it with my children on Sunday and was in awe of the things that their family went through.  Rhoda was 10 and was the last member to die right before they reached the valley.  She loved to “sing for the weary travelers after a long day with her sweet soprano voice” (must be where my sweet grandma got her voice).  

This book is full of touching stories about the families that were in the handcart company.  The struggles, trials, and amazing miracles that they went through.  We are going to read a couple of stories  a month.  It was fun to just read to the kids while they colored or played with Lego’s.