Letter to William Wines Phelps, 29 October 1845
Brother W W Phelps
I Recved your kind letter under date
of Sept 15 the most of which you will find in the 10 No
of the star. I am truly glad to hear from you
or any of my friends often from Nauvoo during these
interesting times. And I hope even in the midst of the Endomnt
I shall not be forgotten by my frinds but hope some of
them will steal time enough to ocasenally drop me a few
lines. I have forwarded the Stars regular as they have
come out of press to Nauvoo to the Twelve & Editors of
the Times & Neighbor & I will Endeavor to forward the
punch & the Latest News for the Neighbor by each Steemer
But I supposed Eldr Hedlock & othrs were forwarding
papers for that purpose. But I will Endevor to attend to
it myself, you speaking of Having a multiplicity of
business to attend to I do not doubt it, in fact
as the Kingdom of God advances our cares & labous increase &
never saw the time when I had the same amont of labours &
car[e]s resting upon me as at the present time with so few
wise expernced men in this part of the vineyard the Burthn [Burden] of all the
churches rests upon me, scores of letters pouring in from all parts
of the kingdom, asking council & questions upon ^which^ every thing that the
Righteous ever thought of from Abel to Joseph or that the wicked men
engaged in from Canin to Tom Sharp & I have to write ansers
& give council to these matters th[u]s with the matter for the
Star, Temple Recording, Emegration, & a score of othr thngs keep
me so constantly Employed that my leasure hours are vary scarce
I felt vary anxious concering the movements of our Enemies in Hancock Co.
untill I got your lettr & G. A. Smith, & I shall still feel so
untill I hear the resut of the End of it. My prayer to God is that
He will restrain the mob untill the Sants get their Endowment
And my faith is that the Endowmet will be given in the Temple
in the City of Joseph for it seems as though the saints were
keeping the commandmets of God in that City the way those [illegible]
are progressing. All is going on as will [well] in this country as
can be expected most of the Journals are mentioning of
