“You Latter-day Saints, the youth of the noble birthright, if you can say, as Martha said, ‘Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world’—if you can say that and know that he is in his heaven, and you believe that with all your soul, you will not be trapped in the pitfalls of life. I can say to you young people that I know—as did Martha in that flash of testimony—I know that he is up there. He is there, and he is closer to this church than you have any idea that he is. He is the resurrection and the life. And though you were dead, yet shall you live. As he lives, you shall live. If you believe in him, you shall live in everlasting life, as one who has won the fight and has kinship to him who gave his life that men might be” (“Be Loyal to the Royal Within You,” BYU Devotional, September 11, 1973).

1846 - Brigham Young and his “Camp of Israel” arrive and set up a somewhat permanent encampment at Richardson’s Point, 55 miles west of Nauvoo, Illinois, in Iowa.  He ended up staying there until March 19th due to heavy rains making the roads and streams impassable.

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