Autobiography 1858 Deseret News
—While laboring for Joseph Young,
Kirtland was visited with a sudden storm of
wind and rain, a current past south of the
Temple in the form of a whirlwind or tornado,
which destroyed and injured several buildings,
it crushed one of Joseph Young’s buildings,
and removed the one we were in some 10 feet,
but no person was injured.
I felt impressed to go out upon a mission;
the Spirit was upon me, and lead me to go to
Fox Islands; it was a country I had never
visited. I named my feelings upon the subject
to Elders Kimball, Rigdon and others; they
encouraged me to go. Elder Kimball blessed
me and said in the name of the Lord I should
be blessed and prospered on my mission, and
do a good work. I proposed to Jonathan H.
Hale to accompany me, which he did.
(To be continued.)
