Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
I commenced
work for the first time for forty days and cut one
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
September 19, 1842 ~ Monday
I was confined to my Bed or house from the
10th of Aug to the 19th of Sept making 40 days
during my sickness the Twelve came & anointed
me & lade hands upon me & rebuke my
fever & I felt a tesstimony that I should recover
after I Began to recover I had a relaps twice which
put me Back much. In one instance I was
requested to attend a conference or council of the
quorum of the Twelve in the case of Orson Pratt
I was weak & feeble yet I thought I would try to
meet with them with the expectation that they
would meet at Elder John Taylors who was
also vary low with the Billious fever But on our
arival at his house he was so vary feeble he was
not able to have it there so it was remove to
President Hyram Smiths office Elder B. Young
conveyed me in his carriag to the place of
meeting but I had not Been in the house more
than 10 minutes before my strength began to
fail me I lay down upon a bench but had no
sooner lain down than I was gone my breath
stoped. my Brethren raised me up took me to the
door into the air & with the assistance of water
air &c I was brought to Breath again but not without
a hard struggle between life & death the Breth-
ering lade hands upon me & Br Hyram Smith
prayed for my recovery I soon began to breathe
free but I was deprived of all my strength
they convey me home. it being a warm time
I was much troubled for Breathing through most
of the night & it took me several days to recover
my former strength.
During my sickness there was some important
thinkgs transpired in the Church we received
the word of the Lord concerning the
Elders of the Church (through Joseph the
Seer) The Lord manifested that it was
his will that the first presidency, the
Twelve, The High Council The quorum
of High Priest, and the Elders quorum
as a general thing should go into
the vineyard. The instructions were
for the Elders to confine themselves to the
Sept 19th I commenced work this day for the
first time for 40 days I had made arangments
with Brother Bullard to do my fall work, with
his teeam but he informed me this morning that
he would returned to Iowa & what use I
had of his team I must use it during the week
As I had been sick so long I had eat out &
Burned out as it were not having any wood I
turned out to work. I cut one acre of corn
during my first days work & stooked it up
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Bullard, Daniel
abt. 1805 - 1867
4 mentions
Smith, Hyrum
9 Feb 1800 - 27 Jun 1844
425 mentions
Apostle
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1954 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2369 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1082 mentions
Apostle
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Wilford is confined to his bed with illness for 40 days.
Joseph Smith's letter states baptism for the dead is welding link between fathers and children. Doctrine and Covenants 128
3,000 gather in unfinished Nauvoo Temple for the first official meeting (the walls are only 4 feet high).