Day in the Life

Feb 18, 1853

Journal Entry

February 18, 1853 ~ Friday

18th I spent the day at home the west side Jordon Hunting
for my horses & cows found my cows but not my Horses

Places

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Jordan River, Great Salt Lake and Utah Counties, Utah Territory

Quotes

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a man can no more live without praying than they can without bread if you dont keep the commandments of God the devil with use you for his deciple. Blessings will not stick upon an unfaith ful man but they will upon one that is faithful. let us pray in secret as well as in the family circle
~ Wilford Woodruff
a man can no more live without praying than they can without bread if you dont keep the commandments of God the devil with use you for his deciple. Blessings will not stick upon an unfaith ful man but they will upon one that is faithful. let us pray in secret as well as in the family circle
~ Ezra T Benson
it is better to wear out than to rust out
~ Erastus Snow
the Seventies are the bone & sinnew of Israel the Battle Ax of the Almighty what a mighty influence they must wield in Israel & the world we are begining to become one as a people Joseph said he had got a lever under the earth & he ment to turn it over that it might be right side up the seventies I expect will do much towards turning it over it is for our best interest to build up the Kingdom of God & do his will
~ Erastus Snow

Events

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December 21, 1852
Wilford appointed clerk and historian of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at age 45.
January 1853
Wilford serves third term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Feb 18, 1853