Mormon youth 'Trek' through mud, time

While most high school kids were vacationing during spring break, about 250 youth from the Frisco Texas Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Saints were trekking. This was not star trekking, but rather pulling handcarts for three days and many miles walking the muddy trails of Lake Ray Roberts near Pilot Point. One lost a shoe, another six pounds of body weight.The place was just one big mud hole, said Bonnie Halladay, an adult leader from the Frisco 4th Ward.About every four years, the LDS Church hosts this event to remind youngsters of the hardships the Mormon pioneers endured migrating from Illinois and Missouri to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah in the mid-1800s. Many of the kids had ancestors that sojourned across the plains, and this activity welded them a little closer to those relatives or pioneers.