Several Utah organizations are cooperating in a joint initiative called “Operation Self-Reliance”. Jesse Fisher, a shareholder in one of those organizations, the Utah OSR Land Cooperative, relates early LDS leaders’ teaching about “building Zion” to the efforts of three “cooperative communities” — Mondragon, Spain, Brigham City during the 1800s, and the OSR Land Co-ops of today.
Early LDS leaders taught that there was a “stepping stone to Zion”. This video explores one option for implementing that stepping stone today.