HEBER, Utah — Gathered with 2,300 young women high on a mountain top, Sister Elaine S. Dalton unfurled a banner to virtue June 1.
The bright golden banner now stands among other colorful flags at the Church's Heber Valley Camp for young women.
"Today as we raise a golden banner standing for virtue here at the Heber Camp, I might ask you to arise also and shine and stand," said Sister Dalton, Young Women general president.
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