Joseph Smith explains the need for all living and dead to receive saving ordinances.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
July 16, 1838 ~ Monday
16 Phebe is unusually favored for one in her circumstances this is the third day of her confinement & she has walked
from her bedroom into the adjoining rooms & then returned without injury. I spent the day mowing grass for
Sister Sarah Foss it being rather new business I felt weary at night
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1582 mentions
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Foss, Sarah Brackett Carter
30 Sep 1800 - 4 Mar 1894
185 mentions
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Wilford baptizes father Aphek, stepmother Azubah, and half-sister Eunice in Farmington, Connecticut.
Wilford called to serve as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Doctrine and Covenants 118
Wilford present for birth of his first child, Sarah Emma, in Scarborough, Maine.
Wilford returns to his mission in the Fox Islands.
Wilford receives news of his calling as an apostle; and call to go on mission to England with apostles.