I was confined to my Bed or from the
10th of Aug to the 19th of Sept making 40 days
during my sickness the Twelve came & anointed
me & upon me & rebuke my
fever & I felt a 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
I was weak & feeble yet I thought I would try to
meet with them with the expectation that they
would meet at Elder who was
also vary low with the 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 office Elder
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 the
Seer) The Lord manifested that it was
his 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 . 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 to do my fall work, with
his teeam but he informed me this morning that
he would returned to & 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
