3,000 gather in unfinished Nauvoo Temple for the first official meeting (the walls are only 4 feet high).
Dec 11 Sunday Elder Orson Hyde deliverd
an interesting discourse at President Joseph
Smiths giving an account of his travels at Jerrus
alem & home again which was interesting
he saw the medeteranean & dead sea at the sam
time from mount Olivet saw smoke or
fog continually arising from the dead sea
spoke of the sepulcher & many things that
put him in mind of the days of Christ he
published our principles in the German
language & circulated them among
the various nations
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