Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On I crossed the river Mo. to the
camp to attend a council with the Twelve but they had gone to Elkhorn and
did not return until the evening so our council was put off unto the
the next day when we met on a high prairie ridge. Eleven of our
quorum were present. We put on our robes and offered up our prayers
to God conversed upon principle and decided that no man has a right to
attend to the ordinance of sealing except the President of the Church or those
who are directed by him so to do and that the ordinance should be confined
to Zion or her stakes. This was the last council we were expected
to hold together before the departure of Elders O Hyde P. P. Pratt and
John Taylor for England
We had an interesting time in our council
and at the close Brother Parley, George A. and John Taylor started for
our camp at the Bluffs. We rode part of the way to the river in a
carriage and then I walked with Brother Parley and took skiff and rowed
over the river and then started for home but in taking a near road ^across
a slough^ in the dark we missed our way and wandered some time in the
dense weeds willows bushes &c. We at last found our road and arrived
at brother Pratts tent in the bottom where I parted from him and lost
my way ^again^ going to the Bluff but arrived at last at my tent at 10 o'clock
very weary having walked about 12 miles after sundown
Next day I got together my teams early in
the morning and started for the ferry to cross but found Brother
