24 Days Until Trek - Camp Organization

When you are on Trek, see if you can map out the organization of Trek. Trek families are foundational to the experience. You share a handcart with them, prepare and eat meals together, and give moral support to each other. The families are under the direction of the Stake Presidency who are the leaders of this adventure and who have called stake members to help with the activities, ensure there is safe, healthy food, move the porta potties, take care of injuries, ensure general health, and so forth. When a large group gets together, there needs to be order or things would devolve into chaos. Note below how individuals worked together, sometimes giving up their own desires, to serve the greater good. When the bugle sounded, you got ready to move, whether you wanted to or not. Discipline and cooperation was essential to moving thousands of people across the continent. Organization and cooperation are in the DNA of Latter-day Saints. 

"The camp was organized into three divisions, and men appointed to the various offices. Enroute, they added new rules: A horn would signal the times to arise, have meals, join in evening prayer, and retire. The head of each division would appoint a night guard. Everyone would share in the milk whether they owned a cow or not. Travel should be restricted to fifteen miles a day. On August 3, 1838, the camp approved the appointment of three ‘judges’ to settle interpersonal difficulties. In general, this compact worked well and the Kirtland Camp made the march of some 900 miles safely despite a ragged and contentious beginning.”

Selection from Stanley B. and Violet T. Kimball's 2011 book, Villages on Wheels: A Social History of the Gathering to Zion.

I wasn't sure what I'd get with this selection. I'm not sure what's going on with that horn. Looks a little like the signing of the Mayflower Compact, and, at the same time, it looks nothing like the signing of the Mayflower Compact.