Salt Lake Temple

Last night we went to Temple Square with our friends to see the lights. It was chilly and foggy which lends itself to making the most of the lights. This was the first thing we saw as we came out of the west doors of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

The pioneers in the handcart companies were fleeing west for safety in their desire to live and worship as they wished. They left behind most of what they owned and travelled many thousands of miles in order to establish Zion.

Logo for Trek

We now have a logo for the 2010 Trek. The thought behind the logo was to reinforce the theme behind trek Their Journey, My Journey. The font for Their Journey is reminiscent of old style handwriting while the font for My Journey is more modern. My Journey was placed in front and overlapping in order to suggest the ties between our modern day trek and those of our pioneer ancestors.

The font used for Sandy Utah Crescent Stake is one of the fonts that is similar to those used by the LDS Church in their logo. While there are a number of fonts that are suggested as the one used, this one is "Trajan Pro".

The "handcart image" was taken from an image of the entrance to Martins Cove.

The idea behind creating a logo was to have something that could be used on communications, handouts and collateral created for Trek.