Is there anything
said about this desert in prophecy? Yes. You can find many prophecies in
Isaiah, David's psalms, and other Prophets, predicting that, about or near the
time of the coming of the Lord, "the wilderness and the solitary place
shall be made glad for them." That the "desert shall rejoice and
blossom as the rose; it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and
singing." Isaiah further says that "the Lord shall comfort Zion; he
shall comfort all her waste places, he shall make her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found
therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody." Also that he would
"cause springs of water to break out in the desert, and that the parched
ground should become pools of living water." (Orson Pratt in JOD 17:317 | February
28, 1875)
Further Reading
Duane Crowther on Isaiah 2:2 being about a future Temple in Jerusalem, not Salt Lake City