How an act of kindness nearly 2 centuries ago led to a service project during BYU’s trip to Iowa State

AMES, Iowa — Good Park sits in the shadow of the Des Moines skyline, just a stone’s throw from Drake University.

It’s named for Charles Good, a 19th-century Des Moines businessman who has been dead for more than 125 years.

But Good has left a legacy that vastly exceeds a singular eponymous park. To many Latter-day Saints, he is regarded to this day as a humble yet heroic example of compassion.

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In the summer of 1856, the Willie Handcart Company of more than 500 Latter-day Saint migrants passed through Iowa on their trek west to Utah. The company would eventually encounter disaster in the form of disease and severe winter weather, r