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Day in the Life

Oct 25, 1840

Journal Entry

October 25, 1840 ~ Sunday

A Dream. On the I fel asleep & Dreamed I
was at my Fathers house in Farmington Con my father
had caught some fish, I thought I would go to fishing
to, I went under the saw mill & the trench was full
of pickerel father shut down the gates & the fish started
to run down stream with the water I run down to
the bottom of the Island jumped into the trench, & caught
a great many large fish with my hands as they came
down. I then went to the mill & Brother Asahel Woodruff
who has been dead two years came & broght many fish
& showed me which he caught in the trengch, we then comm-
enced eating peaches with other friends & talked about
& rejoiced in the glories of IMMORTALITY

"The Rev R. Aitken AM. of London says,
As the prophecies concerning the birth, life, & death, o[f] our
Lord were litterly fulfilled at his first coming,
to the division of his garments and to the casting
of lots upon his vestures so evry prophecy & promise
respecting his Second Coming—throne—kingdom—reign
judgment—power—with the changes predicted in the
world—elements—nature—condition of animals and the
like, shall be literally accomplished." Truth
Una. Kila. Shile. Oshena.

25th Sunday we for the first time preached
in J Barretts Academy at which Place we met
about 50 persons at 3 oclock & I preached unto
them Elder Smith Preached in the Evening, but it
is the hardest matter to awaken an interest upon
the subject of any place I ever visited. After morting [meeting]
I walked about 5 miles before I retired to rest, I had a
pleasant Dream about ketching fish & eating frui[t]

People

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
574 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1814
11 Apr 1814 - 18 Oct 1838
203 mentions
Family
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1431 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
9 mentions
Aitken, Robert
22 Jan 1800 - 11 Jul 1873
16 mentions

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Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut
J. Barrett's Academy, London, Middlesex, England
London, Middlesex, England

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while the man that tends the gas lights at the Carpenters Hall was light- ing the Chandaliers for a publick discussion 12 of them burst in peaces Elder O Pratt stood beside of me at the time, the man said he had never seen such a thing before, this was to light the Hall to accomodate Mr Berry who pledged himself to prove the Book of mormon fals & water Baptism not essential unto Salvation
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Letter from Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 25 October 1840
Montrose Lee County Iowa Terr. My Dearest Willford I have just sent a full sheet to the office for you and think I will begin another now and keep a kind of a journal or sketch of times and things with me untill I hear from you again. Today we have had a good meet ing at father Clark’s where I live and just as meeting closed brother Smoot rode up to the door this is the first time. I have seen him since his return from his mission— he has been gone about 4 months and been into the states of Tennessee Alabama &c. and has baptized in company with br. D. Webster about 26 and or dained him an elder and given him charge over the church in Ten. about 200 miles from where you traveled— br Smoot took supper with me and I think you would have been a welcome guest at the table he says that br. Webster has got to be a workman and thinks of returning to Con. in march and settleing up his busines and comeing west as soon as he can. 26th today I feel lonely but comfort myselfe with thinking that W. will come home and sure ly he will not get away so again without I go to— you speak about Willford’s growing fast so as to go into the vinyard, I think he will be large enough by the next time you want to go so you can take him along at least I want you to. 27th today I have had a tried day my babe has been verry sick he still has the chills and fever verry hard and today I got quite alarmed about him his fever ran so high but at night he is better I have broke his fever 4 times with Sappington’s pills but it will return. 28th today I have felt quite comfortable my babe has been considerable smart. I thought I would write you a little every night just before I retired to rest and let you know a little of the occurrences of the day with me. 29th today I am makeing a vest for brother Washburn toward paying for a pair of shoes as I am much in want of them I feel badly thried in mind, W. says I should like to know what it is about well I will tell you when you come home, 30 today I feell some better and finish my vest as I make slow progress in tayloring with my babe and other chores 31st I feel quite well in mind today after committing my case to my heavenly father he has taken it into his hands and will do wright about it, I am makeing a cap for Ezra Clark, Willford continues better

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Oct 25, 1840