Abiding Faith Quilt

Two years ago D. Todd Christofferson spoke at an Ogden Pioneer Days devotional about that city’s earliest days, when it was home to Latter-day Saints, Utes, Shoshones, trappers, and rail workers from all over the globe. “Ogden City was a socially, culturally, and religiously diverse community. The differences of Church members and their non-Mormon neighbors created a divide until around the turn of the 20th century when the people of Ogden found a way to use civic and national holidays to unite. The Ogden Pioneer Days celebration began in 1934 and has been one way community members have come together in celebration. If my perception is correct that Ogden is a city where, generally speaking, people put differences aside and strive for the common good, I pray that it will ever be so.”