Our Precious Blood Line

When we were in Utah we visited Heritage Park. It was really neat to show Brooke the exact place and replica of of her Great Great Great Great Grandfather John Pack's home.  There is also a  statue that he is on in memory of the first Latter Day Saints that crossed mountains for many miles even in freezing weather to get to the place they called Zion.

Biography from Wikepedia

John Pack was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He married his first wife, Julia Ives, in 1832 in Watertown, New York. In 1836, Pack was baptized a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.

Pack moved to Kirtland, Ohio, then to Missouri, and then to Nauvoo, Illinois. He was a member of the Nauvoo Legion holding the rank of Captain. Pack also served as a policeman in Nauvoo.

Pack was in the first company of Mormon pioneers to cross the plains with Brigham Young. He held the ranks of Captain of Fifty in the company as well as Colonel in its military organization. At the time of Joseph Smith's death, Pack was serving as a missionary in New Jersey with Ezra T. Benson.

The University of Deseret, the predecessor of the University of Utah, began in the home of John Pack.

Pack served with John Taylor as one of the first Mormon missionaries in France beginning in 1849. Pack was in this mission until 1852, but he spent most of his time preaching in the Channel Islands.

 Will might not be a Pack by name, but he is by blood, and Pack's seem to go to any length to accomplish their goals. I see that in Will and Brooke. John Pack started what we know as the University of Utah in his home...........

Here is Brooke standing on the side of the house. We couldn't go in because they rent it out for events.....But it was neat to know we were standing on the same soil our ancestors stood on....Where a great work was done by them to bring the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to a place where all in the world would hear and be able to partake of the blessings that come with being a member.