On a stretch of green, windswept grassland, the scene could be mistaken for Utah in 1847 when pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.
Wooden handcarts creak across the steppe, teenagers in headscarves and suspenders trudge through muddy trails, and the smell of fire-cooked mutton drifts on the wind.
But this isn’t the American frontier — it’s a youth trek sponsored by the Darkhan Mongolia District, near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where more than 130 young Latter-day Saints from across Mongolia came together in June, mirroring the steps of early Saints and Mongol progenitors alike.
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