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Dec 23, 1855

Journal Entry

December 23, 1855 ~ Sunday

223 Sunday I spent the day at home writing & reading

A hand pointing to the right I wrote a letter at home to my Daughter Phebe. I. Morley
& W. W. Phelps preached in the forenoon

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Morley, Isaac
11 Mar 1786 - 24 Jun 1865
61 mentions
Snow, Phebe Amelia Woodruff
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
340 mentions
Family
Phelps, William Wines
17 Feb 1792 - 7 Mar 1872
172 mentions

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we can be made vessels of honour what can we be made vessels of honour after we have moved in the hands of the potter & ground over again yes this will be the case with man but it is far better to be passive in the hands of God & be made a vessel of honor the first time than to wait thill till we have to be ground over again this is a figure which the prophet Jeremiahah made use of. Now President Young is the Master Potter here on Earth & we should be subject to him in all things we should all remember that we have got to render up our stewardship to God therefore we should be faithful in all things. And I pray that the spirit of God may rest upon you that you may do right & be saved with a full salvation. And I ask it in the name of Jesus Christ Amen
~ Heber C. Kimball
22 I spent the day in reading & writing I read the Books of Ecclesiastes, songs of Solomon, & Isaiah through And I could see by the Prophet Isaiah that one of the causes of the universal destruction & abolishment of all the gentile Nations upon the face of the whole Earth in the last days will be in consequence of the univer- sal Ill treatment of the House of Israel viz the Jews among all Nations & the Lamanites in America.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Letter from Sarah Brown Woodruff, 25 December 1855

G[rea]t Salt Lake City To My Dear Lord The Hon W Woodruff I take this opportunity of sending a few lines to you as you directed. I am nearly well of my cold and am very busy weaving. I received your very kind letter on thursday last whch was a comfort to me. I shall try to improve my time in learning to do right and do it willingly and cheerfully and leave you to judge when you come home whether I have made any improvement. I shall also try to take good care of David he does not walk yet but I hope he will before you come home. I have very little news to tell you as I have not been out any where since you left not even to meeting my cold has been so bad that I have not been able to go to meeting. I might have gone to day but it has been so cold that I did not venture out but I hope I shall be able to go next sunday and about the rooms Emma has told you so suffice it for me to say we have changed rooms. Emma & I get along very nicely she has been staying here with me a few days helping to clean and regulate the house we have not spoken a cross word to each other since you left and I hope we never may again. I hope you will enjoy yourself while you are absent from us and that you will have a pleasant journey home as soon as your session is ofver. I presume the others have told you all the news so praying for safety and welfare I will close Yours truly with much respect Sarah Woodruff Ps I hope you will write to me again soon and give me some more good counsel

Letter from Susan Cornelia Woodruff Scholes, 23 December 1855

G S L City Dear Farther I reseaved that letter you wrote to me and I though it was very prety indeed and I though you gave me very good advice and I hope I will follow it and if I do I know I will follow do rite be couse I know yo my father no would not give me bad advice siste^r^ kimball told me to give hir respects to you I think mutch of that letters you wrote me and will keep it as long as I can Dear Farther are you a goin to get a new wife emma sais that she will if you get one that she will give her one of her rooms if you get one to do get one that will be a comfort to mother and not a plague the reason I thought you was a goin to get one mother had company a few days a go and the ladies said, th that they thought you was a goin to get one I wish you had more wives to help bild up the kingdon if you get one I hope she will not be so cross cross as sarah for the is as croos as an old she bear and dave is the same they are as dirty as the pigs in the pen s for I do not think they wash their dishes once a weeak pleas excus^e^ the bad wrighting in the last part of the letter^s^ be cause it grew dark be fore I got done writin^g^ yours truley Susan C Woodruff

Letter from Phebe Amelia Woodruff, 23 December 1855

G S L City Dear Father I am glad I have the privilege of writing to you this time. I received a letter from you and I think it was a very pretty one and I think a great deal of it and I shall save it as long as I live I wrote two letters to you the last male but I forgot to date them and I sent you one anon ymous letter it was the little one and you must excuse the bad writing of the large letter for I wrote in agreat hurry when I wrote it and I just got it writen in time for if I had been a few minutes later I could not have sent it to you I forgot to date it. Mrs Kimball sends her respects to you and she has introduced a new rule into the school she is a going to let the schollars open the school by prayer. Emma has prayed three or four times and any of the others have not prayed yet but they will take turns, after this Bula composed her letter herself and wrote it to with a little help Wilfords eyes were better untill satterday when they began to grow worse so he cannot write this time eather but I hope they will get better so that he can write to you next mail From your affectionate Daughter Phebe A Woodruff

Letter from Moroni Woodruff, 23 December 1855

G S L City wano moanch DI milk rose all the time and split the wood for sara and come and road sconup the wood and he is shau shaunis of to buck when peads ashen & wane to wash the floor or wash the dishes nother mother says that yo that she thinke^s^ I will spel in to leters be fore you comes home for I konow most all of my leters now and I shall be to very glad to sea you when you come home willy has got very sore eyes and ah I hope that they will soon get well good by mounch from morono Woodruff

Letter from Sarah Brown Woodruff, 23 December 1855

Gt Salt Lake City To My Dear Lord The Hon W Woodruff I take this opportunity of sending a few lines to you as you directed I am nearly well of my cold and am very busy weaving I received your very kind letter on thursday last which was a comfort to me. I shall try to improve my time in learning to do right and do it willingly and cheerfully and leave you to judge when you come home whether I have made any improvement I shall also try to take good care of David he does not walk yet but I hope he will before you come home I have very little news to tell you as I have not been out any where since you left not even to meeting my cold has been so bad that I have not been able to go to meeting I might have gone to day but it has been so cold that I did not venture out but I hope I shall be able to go next sunday and about the rooms Emma has told you so suffice it for me to say we have changed rooms. Emma & I get along very nicely she has been staying here with me a few days helping to clean and regulate the house we have not spoken a cross word to each other since you left and I hope we never may again I hope you will enjoy yourself while you are absent from us and theat you will have a pleasant journey home as soon as your session is ofver & pressure the others have told you all the news so praying for safety and welfare I wil close Yours truly with much respect Sarah Woodruff P S I hope you will write to me again soon and give me some more good counsel

Letter from Phebe Whittemore Woodruff, 23 December 1855

Great Salt Lake Citty Dear Willford I have thought that I would not write you at all but as you kindly asked me to write ^I have changed my mind.^ The weather here since the friday after you left has been dull and clowdy with frequent small snows which has soon melted away untill last friday night about midnight the wind blew a gale I think the hardest that I ever heard it it made the house shake I did not know but it would fall but in the morn all was safe and we had more snow than we have had in all this winter the day following was cold which was the only cold day that we have had this winter. The most of the leaves remain on the appletrees yet. My health is not veyvery good this win- ter I fearl much of the effects of my summers work. The chil- dren all go to school but Bula, Willford has had very bad eyes for 8 or 10 days so that he cannot read or study. Fathers health is uncommonly good this winter but I never knew him as fractious as he is and has been lately. Last thursday sister's Pratt, Hyde, Taylor Kimball Benson Hooper & Smith made me a visit, (sister Young being quite sick she could not come,) the most of them brought their letters and read them and we had a very pleasent time. Sister Smith's letter was read first which gave the infor- mation of Br. Pratt's addition to himself. I think there was some jokes passed and prophecyes, delivered upon the occasion, however it was

Letter from Emma Smith Woodruff, 23 December 1855

Great Salt Lake City Sunday noon My Dear Lord As I am very buisy through the week ^thought^ I would answer your kind note which I received last Thursdaday to day. I went to meeting this forenoon and heard a very interesting discorse from Bro Clements upon the subject of man as he was as he is and his future destiny he preached a very interesting discourse indeed the missionary conference commenced yesterday at ten oclock but the weather was so cold that theere was scarcely any one out so they adjourned until this morning but to it continu- -ing very cold they had but one meeting in the Taber- nicle and thought it best for the missionaries to preach in the schoolhouses in each ward this evening. I am getting along pretty well with my studies I have writen four compostion since you have been gone but it does not come so hard as at first I beleive Phebe gave you an account of our last Juvanile pollosophical meeting it was very interesting inded I ^wish^ you could have be^e^n heare I know it would have done you good I try to improve my time the best I can. you can see for your Self whether I have improved in my writing or not my Grammer I get along with very well Arithmatic

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Events

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1856 - 1861
Wilford serves on Board of Directors of Deseret Agriculture and Manufacturing Society.

Dec 23, 1855