Continuing in Faith

My husband's great-grandfather Henry Clegg Jr. was a finisher.
He joined the Church with his family when the first LDS missionaries went to Preston, England.
Henry had a view of his destination in his mind as he and his wife, Hannah, and their two young boys immigrated to Utah.
Henry left his older parents, who were too feeble to make such a long and arduous journey, knowing he would never see them again.

While crossing the plains, Hannah contracted cholera and died.
She was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.
The company then moved on, and at six in the evening, Henry's youngest son also died.
Henry retraced his steps to Hannah's grave, placed his young son in his wife's arms, and reburied the two of them together.
Henry then had to return to the wagon train, now five miles away.
Suffering from cholera himself, Henry described his condition as being at death's door while realizing he still had a thousand miles to walk.
Amazingly he continued forward, putting one foot in front of the other.
He stopped writing in his journal for several weeks after losing his dear Hannah and little son.
I was struck with the words he used when he did start writing again: "Still moving."

When he finally reached the gathering place of the Saints, he began a new family.
He kept the faith.
He continued his story.
Most remarkably, his heartache over the burial of his sweetheart and son gave birth to our family's legacy of moving forward, of finishing.

-Gayle M. Clegg -The Finished Story -April 2004 General Conference

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi