Tonga 2025 Purpose & Overview Meeting
Interested in participating in our 2025 trip to Tonga? Hoping to be a chaperone? Join us in our first weekly meeting to understand the purpose of the trip. Times are in MST and the meeting will be held via zoom.
Taylorsville Temple Open House
Join us in a tour of the Taylorsville Temple before it is dedicated. If this will be your first time to a temple open house, we know it will help you feel the love of Jesus Christ and bring us all closer together.
MTC Tour
Do you know someone who has served a mission? Have you ever thought about serving? Join us on a tour of the Missionary Training Center to learn what missions can do for you, to feel the Spirit, and to come closer to each other and Jesus Christ. All religions are welcome!
Email one heart.onemind.zion@gmail.com if you are a Zion participant or parent wanting to join, and we will send you more information.
Larry H Miller Networking
Learn what networking really means by coming and getting to know business owners in Utah! By attending, you will gain presentation and networking skills and learn from successful business professionals.
Fundraising Booth
Hoping to join us in Tonga 2025? This Who Got Roots Event is hosted by the Utah Pacific Island Chamber. They have invited us to come and network for potential fundraising contacts.
Zion Kickoff
Excited to start? Interested in joining? Come find out what we do and who you can become as a member of Zion.
Bring your parents, invite a friend, and join us for a get to know you night!
Past Events
Provo MTC Tour
Location: Provo Missionary Training Center
Date: April 2024
Event Highlights: Our youth were led on a guided tour around the facilities of the Provo missionary training center. They learned about daily schedules of a Latter-day Saint missionary and what missionaries learn and prepare to do during their service. At the conclusion of the tour, the youth heard testimonies of two Sister missionaries who are currently in training. Many of the youth who attended commented that they are more interested in serving missions because of this tour.
Cultural Outreach: Liahona High School, Tonga
Location: Liahona, Tonga
Date: December 2022
Event Highlights: Our youth learned how Liahona High School functions and how the youth of Tonga receive education in a Christ-centered environment. This cultural exchange provided Zion with an opportunity to learn from the admirable levels of respect and discipline amongst the students of Tonga. This event also laid the foundation to a long lasting collaboration between Zion and Liahona High School.
University of Southern California Visit
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: January 2020
Event Highlights: Zion alumni visited multiple schools in Southern California. The private tour of University of Southern California was provided by USC and NFL player Chris Clairborne. The Zion youth were grateful for the opportunity to see their potential and received additional motivation to accomplish their goals.
Zion Football Clinic: Tonga
Location: Makeke, Tonga
Date: June 2019
Event Highlights: In conjunction with 2-time National High School Football Coach of the Year, Siuaki Livai, Zion had the opportunity to help run a clinic and Multiple football games for the youth. Zion left Tonga humbled by the life-changing experience.
University of Utah
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Date: November 2018
Event Highlights: President Rich Kaufusi took the time to provide a private tour of the University of Utah to Zion. The youth were able to learn from his personal experience about the value of an education coupled with the hard work of developing one's talents. This was the first time for most of the Zion youth to ever set foot on a university campus.
Salt Lake Burrito Project
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Date: May 2018
Event Highlights: Zion youth were able to prepare and distribute hundreds of Burritos to those in need in the Rio Grande area of Salt Lake City. They were able to connect with those in need and find a way to help within their own community. This service project helped the youth realize the blessing, access, and duty they have to continually help others.
14U Back-to-Back National Champions
Location: Canton, Ohio
Date: December 2018
Event Highlights: Zion participants were able to secure their second consecutive 14U National Football Championship in an NFL Stadium. This experience was captivated by the dedication of the game to a 10-year old brother of a Zion participant, Naki, who was battling terminal cancer at the time. He was able to speak with all Zion team members prior to the championship game and a few months prior to his passing. This left an everlasting impression amongst the Zion youth that not even a National Championship should compare to what matters most and lasts the longest.
Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Date: December 2017
Event Highlights: Guided on a private tour by Ohio State Running Backs Coach, Tony Alford, Zion participants were able to learn what it takes to be part of a National Powerhouse. They also learned from Coach Alford about the importance of working harder in all aspects of life to develop into a future father and husband. This tour concluded with an on-the-field tour of the 102,780 seat Ohio Stadium.
Kirtland Temple
Location: Kirtland, Ohio
Date: December 2017
Event Highlights: Zion youth were humbled to have an inter-faith experience with the Community of Christ Church. As they went through their private tour of the Kirtland Temple, the Zion youth were able to learn how to be open-minded to the testimonies of other religions. Many of the youth have said that being present in the first temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was a life-changing experience.
Hike the Y
Location: Provo, Utah
Date: March 2017
Event Highlights: While hiking the Y as an inaugural activity to get to know each other, the youth noticed a young man near the entrance of the Y Hike. With a chronic disability that prevented him from walking without a cane, the vibrant participants of Zion took turns carrying him to the top of the Y. Once there, they were able to share their testimonies of what is their "Y" in life and how they can dedicate their lives to serving others at all times.