https://store.shpbeds.org/products/joseph-smith-family-reunion-tshirt
T-shirts from the reunion are still available for purchase from Sleep in Heavenly Peace.
Family Home Evening Resources
As mentioned by Karl Ricks Anderson at the Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Family Reunion on Friday, August 3, 2018, these posts will contain resources for families to use for Family Home Evening lessons which include stories from the lives of our family that will lift, inspire, and provide practical solutions to challenges faced during our every day lives.
Please return often as new material will continually be added.
Be Part of the Smith Family History
Click above to view the podcast, Dreaming of a Heavenly Home by Dan Adams
The Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family has been meeting together since 1972 and look how we have grown. We have the chance to experience and learn how our ancestors trials allowed them to glimpse eternity and have the strength to endure life with hope. Come be part of history.
Register by Saturday, July 21.
Links:
Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Family Reunion History in Pictures
2018 Online Reunion Agenda
Order Reunion T-Shirts
Reunion Fact Sheet  (parking and building entrance instructions)
Our service project will take place right next to the Pioneer Pavilion #7 on the map.
Plan ahead to be part of our family photo. Leave early if you have trouble getting around and meet at Mary Fielding Smith’s Cabin # 47 on the map. You can walk there or take the train to the stop by #44 T by the Native American Village. It is a short walk from there. Just follow the directions on the path.
Link for: This Is The Place Heritage Park Map
The Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Association is working with Sleep In Heavenly Peace for our summer’s service project.
Please click this Lehi Chapter link and fill out the Sleep In Heavenly Peace Release Form online to participate.
Or contribute by mail with checks or money orders to:
Joseph Smith Sr. Family Association
c/o Frances Orton
381 W 3700 N
Provo, UT 84604
Make a notation on the check: Sleep In Heavenly Peace.
Lucy Mack Smith Shawl
The Spring 2018 Smith Newsletter featured a Paisley shawl belonging to Lucy Mack Smith. These shawls were extremely popular in the early 1800s. The cone or almond shaped designs came from East Asia. Because so many shawls were produced in Paisley, England, the almond pattern came to be called a Paisley pattern.
Lucy’s black wool shawl is large enough to cover a bed or to be folded over and worn as a winter coat.
Pattern Activity
If you want to participate in this activity please sign up. This activity will cost $3.00 per white iron-on vinyl transfer (10.5 inches wide and 3.75 inches tall). You also need to provide and bring the fabric item you wish to place the Lucy Mack Smith Shawl Pattern on.
For those who are unable to build a bunk bed you can bring and donate solid colored pillowcases. We will provide a Smith greeting vinyl message to transfer on your donation.
Reunion Activities
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Reunion News – April 27, 2018
Scholarship Contest
The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Association is offering annual scholarships to college, high school and junior high students who are planning to attend college or similar institution.
Up to $1,000
Deadline is July 1, 2018
How learning about the values and sacrifices of Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith’s family can help me and my family honor their legacy.
Applicants do not need to be Smith Family descendants to enter. For more details go to https://josephsmithsr.org/scholarship/.
Inside the Smith family home in 1818, which was their second home in Palmyra.
- The reconstruction is located on the site of the original.
- The eight witnesses saw the golden plates in a grove near the log home.
- Joseph’s first visit from Angel Moroni was here.
- Joseph lived here at the time of the First Vision which occurred in the woods behind the home.
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Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Reunion
August 2-5, 2018
Reunion Registration Is Now Open!
Click on the above registration link or use: https://josephsmithsr.org/reunion/registration/.
You can look forward to:
- Thursday night registration will be held in the lobby of the Church Office Building.
- Friday morning, we will have a family gathering at the Conference Center’s Little Theater. The afternoon will be open for individual family groups to take tours and enjoy time together. In the evening we will have a family dinner in the lobby of the Conference Center. This is a unique opportunity to sit down and enjoy a meal together as one large happy family group. A devotional will be held after the dinner in the Conference Center’s Little Theater.
- Saturday, we will have our service project, family memorial and photo, and a picnic lunch at This Is The Place Heritage Park at 2601 East Sunnyside Ave. There will be free time in the afternoon to enjoy This Is The Place Heritage Park. Saturday evening, we have a family meeting in downtown Salt Lake at the Assembly Hall.
Then of course we will have our last gathering attending Music and the Spoken Word on Sunday.
The Spring Family Newsletter Is Here
We had an unfortunate mix up on the database and we are sorry for the confusion with the newsletter mailing. You may have received someone else’s name to your address. We apologize for the error. We hope you understand that we won’t be able to resend the newsletter.
The pattern used on the cover of the newsletter was taken from a shawl that belonged to Lucy Mack Smith under the design work of Danielle Maddox.
We have attached a copy of the Spring Newsletter to this email blast. You can also view this information here: https://josephsmithsr.org/newsletter/2010-2019/spring-2018/.
Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Association Is Working with Sleep In Heavenly Peace
The Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Association is working with Sleep In Heavenly Peace for our summer’s service project. Sleep In Heavenly Peace was featured this month on a program called Returning The Favor. Please watch this clip https://www.facebook.com/ReturningTheFavor/videos/2020109721593621/ and see why their team stopped by Twin Falls, Idaho to meet Luke Mickelson who started Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization whose mission is to ensure that no child in their town ever has to sleep on the floor.
Click to donate toward our service project.
Or contribute by mail with checks or money orders to:
Joseph Smith Sr. Family Association
c/o Frances Orton
381 W 3700 N
Provo, UT 84604
Make a notation on the check: Sleep In Heavenly Peace.
Steve & Frances Orton
Steve: steve.ortonio@gmail.com
Frances: ortonfrances@gmail.com
c/o Steve and Frances Orton
381 West 3700 North
Provo UT 84604
Coming Soon In Emma’s Footsteps
From the writer of Singing with Angels and the Joseph Smith Jr. and Emma Hale Smith Historical Society, this new movie is coming to theaters June 1 in Utah. For other areas, please send us a request. See the trailer below!
After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, Jr., his wife Emma Hale Smith was left with much to shoulder: salvaging Joseph’s estate, the safety of her family, her own grief, and growing isolation as danger and rumors increased. Through the eyes of one of her sons and Lucy Mack Smith, Emma’s struggles are shown with new light and understanding, revealing a courageous woman who stood as a pillar of strength for her family.
Send us your request for where you would like to see the movie, and see what areas we are already planning to show In Emma’s Footsteps!
LOCATIONS
Find A Piece of History
RE-MEME-BER US
Youth Meme Contest
RULES:
Connect us to the Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Family
Use a relatable picture
Keep it uplifting
Ages 12-18
PRIZES:Â
$50, $25, $10
DEADLINE:
Winners will be announced on the Facebook page and at the 2018 SLC Reunion.
ENTRIES:
Post your meme to https://www.facebook.com/groups/JSSR.LMS/ or https://www.facebook.com/groups/126771836337/?ref=br_rs
2018 Reunion Highlights
- Registration and Meet & Greet at the LDS Church Office Building Lobby and Auditorium.
- Showing of the Youth Media Scholarship Competition in the Conference Center Little Theater.
- Dinner in the lobby of the Conference Center.
- Saturday Service Project and events at This Is The Place Heritage Park.
– Building bunk beds.
– Wreath placing at Mary Fielding Smith cottage.
– Big family photo.
– Picnic lunch.
– Individual family time. - Family devotional at Temple Square Assembly Hall.
- Music and the Spoken Word Sunday morning.
Dreaming of a Heavenly Home
By Daniel Adams
Father and Mother Smith knew as well as anyone what it meant to be refugees. But their trials had also allowed them to glimpse eternity. They saw their heavenly home and what their family could be, and this knowledge, like that of the saints before, gave them the strength to endure, to continue to dream of their heavenly home.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Father and Mother Smith being driven from their home, and having to rebuild once again, in a tiny log cabin in Palmyra, New York. Here they would find a short refuge until they would be forced again to leave. Here Father and Mother Smith read the Bible to their children and plead for divine protection. Here, Joseph Sr. told his children of his remarkable dreams of the restoration. Here Lucy would tell her children how God answered her desperate prayers in a grove of trees. Here Joseph would read the invitation of the Apostle James and determine to ask of God
what he should do. Here the heavens would rend and the Angel Moroni would descend to reveal a mighty work and a wonder. Here, the family gathered nightly to hear Joseph recount his remarkable visions of the ancient inhabitants of this continent. Here the Smith boys and girls grew
strong in faith and work, believing that God was watching over their family. This place, more than any other, symbolized what can be ours – no matter the coming persecution, trials and difficulties – when we dream of our heavenly home.
On this 200th anniversary, the Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith descendants have the opportunity to gather in Salt Lake and help current refugees who
have been driven from their homes and lost their worldly possessions. We will be building bunk beds for refugee children and their families. We would like them to know that God is aware of them, that our family understands to some degree what it means to be refugees, and now with this gift, perhaps they too can dream of a heavenly home.