27th It is a dark cold rainy day & gloomy also, & what makes it more so the camp of the Saints do not get
a long from the east yet, & I have not herd any thing from them for several days. But may the Lord give me
patience that I may be resigned in all things. Notwithstanding the cold rain I harnessed up my horse & carri-
ed Brother home, & assisted him in packing up his houshold goods to the amount of about 600 lbs
I took the goods in my waggon & carried them to Sister house that we might be ready when the camp
came along: Elder Townsend has been cast down in his mind for several days & could scarcely get faith enough to
prepare himself & family to start for Zion thinking the way did not look as clear & bright as he wished to see it.
But I have encouraged him from day to day; as we must walk by faith not by sight, untill he is now preparing him-
self & family to go, may the Lord bless him. [2 Corinthians 5:7] We must all have our faith tried before we are prepared for a & "faith without works is dead being alone" [James 2:17] I do not know when my faith will begin to be tried if it has
not already been esspecially of late; But I thank the LORD that HE has thus far enabled me to keep the faith & withs-
tand every opposition. I desire to be humble unto the end. I spent the night at father . appears resign-
ed to the will of the Lord in all her troubles & tribulations. It is great consolation to my soul to see her determined to
maintain her integrity unto the end. How good it is to have a help meet in every time of need. Distance 20 mil
