Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 01, 1840 ~ Wednesday
to
JAN 1st 1840
I find myself in company with
Elder's John Taylor & Theodore Turley
on board of the packet ship Oxford of the
Black Bull line on our way from New york
to Liverpool to fulfill a commandment of god
in preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Nations
of Europe. We are in Long 42.40 We have a
vary rough sea, High winds blustering & cloudy.
I am about 1,900 miles from both Liverpool
& New york being in the centre of the Atlantic
as it is called 3800 miles from New york to
Liverpool. We Left New york dock on the 19th
day of Dec 1839 & sailed on the 20th So time rolls
along & waiteth for no man
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Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
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Apostle
Turley, Theodore
10 Apr 1801 - 12 Aug 1871
143 mentions
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JAN 1st 1840. So time rolls along
vary rough sea, high winds, Blustering & cloudy
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Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).
Joseph Smith travels to Washington, D.C. to deliver Missouri redress petition to President Van Buren.
Church membership is 16,800; population of the 26 United States is 17,100,000.
Wilford arrives in Liverpool, England; helps convert 1,800 people during his 17 months of missionary service.
Wilford celebrates Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert by preaching the gospel.