301 The last day of 1846 I spent choring and
attended council at at night with the Twelve
High council Bishops &c

On my return home from council
I looked over my Journal for 1846
And the result of my labours will
be found on another page

And thus another year has past and
gone into eternity and has bourn its
report to God of me and all other
men. I still live upon the earth
with my brethren the Twelve
while many of my brethren have
been called into the eternal world
whatever I may have done or left
undone not pleasing in the sight
of my Heavenly Father I ask God
my Heavenly Father in the name
of Jesus Christ his Son to forgive
me and give me grace according
to my day during the year to
come and give me power and a
disposition to do good all the
days of my life be they few or
many and to save myself and
household and all commiteted to my
carharge. One year ago this night
I was in Liverpool England but
this night finds me in the midst
of the camp of Israel, at winter
quarters in the Omaho Nation in the
widlderness in the land of Joseph surrou-
nded by the Lamanites who are poor
rwreched and miserable and have been
so for many generations in consequ-
ence of the sins of there forefathers

According to the prophesies of the
Prophet Lehi we have been rejected
by the gentiles on this land or continant
even the land of Joseph and the gentiles
have shed the blood of the Prophets
and Patriarchs JOSEPH & HIRAM
And others and have sought the lives
of the Apostles and Saints and have
driven us out of their mids and
there by have rejected the Kingdom
of God with the keys, oracles, & revela-
tions thereof which we have taken
with us, which remain with us
this day in the camp of Israel and
my prayer to God is that they may
remain with us and our Posterity
through all time and through all
Eternity and that the same blessings
may spedily go to the Lamanites
And that 1847 may not pass
away untill the Lamanites with
their chiefs may begin to recieve the
gospel which the gentiles have reject-
ed and cast out of their midst and
that the Lord will spedily deliver
us entirely out of their hands and
Avenge the spilt Blood of the Prophets
And that they may cease to spoil and
be spoiled and that they may feel
the chastning rod of the Almighty
And know there is a God in Israel

AD. 1846 Has been a day of
the sacrafice of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Through the fatigues and labours
& exposers of the Saints many have
been laid in the grave I have my-
self been called to part with
two of my sons which God hath
given me they lie in the dust untill
the ^resurrection^ and I came nigh being killed
by accident by the fall of a tree
which broke my breast bone and
three ribs but through the great
goodness of God I was preserved
and have recoverd and still live
for which I feel to render the
gratitude of my heart to my
Heavenly Father And I pray my
Heavenly Father to lengthen out my
days to behold the House of God stand
upon the tops of the Mountains
and to see the Standard of Liberty
reared up as an ensign to the nations
to come unto to serve the Lord of Hosts
I Pray that my Brethren the Twelve
may be preserved to esstablish Zion
upon the mountains of Israel and
lead the camp of Israel to a land of
peace, health and safety all these
blessings I ask God my Heavenly Father
in the name of Jesus Christ and by virtue
of the Holy Priesthood AMEN

The following is A synopsis of the travels
and labours of W. Woodruff during the year
of AD 1846

During the year AD 1846 my time has not
been occupied in preaching in the vineyard
and building up churches, but I left the field
of my labours in Liverpool England at the
begining of the year since that time I have
crossed the Atlantic And traveld the bredth
of the United States, gathered my friends
and many of the Saints out of the gentiles
and Joined the camp of Israel in there
Journeyings to the wilderness and passed
through all the trials, privations and suffer-
ings attending such a Journey And the respons-
ibilities and cares upon the Twelve are daily increasing