6th I put ^into my trees^ about 50 buds of large Early white & late
white preserve peach I spent the day in the President
was with us 3 1/4 hours in hearing history read he asked if there had
been any note made of his meeting in at house at the time
had preached the Book of Mormon & as
the standard, while I took the ground that therey were of no account
to us without a living prophet & revelation I told him we would examine
& see
6th [FIGURE] I spent the fore part of the day in the on History I met
with and a company of Missionary in the
P. P. Pratt W Woodruff
& Blessed 24 Missionaries 20 To & 4
To the states we ordained 2 Elders & one seventy W Woodruff spoke
to the Missionaries a short time & exhorted them to keep a Journal
of their Ministry every day of their lives He said I would advised
you to get all of your blessings written & preserve them. In writing your
Journal I do not care about your keeping an account of what you eat
or drink or whare you sleep unless you should be in a Desert, in the
wilderness or on a mountain & have nothing to Eat then if the beast of
the field or Fowls or Heaven Come & Feed you as the ravens did
then I would want you to record that, but I do feel to Enjoin it upon you
to make a record of Evry official act of your life. If you baptize, confirm
ordain or bless any person or administer to the sick write an account of
it if evry man will do this the church can write a correct account of it
we are not apt to think of the importance of Events as they transpire with
us but we feel the importance of them afterwards we are living in one of
the most important Generations that man ever lived on Earth & we should
write an ofaccount of those important transactions which are takeing place before
our Eyes in fulfillmen of the prophesies & the revelation of God there is a great
flood of Revelations fulfillig in our day & as they are transpiring before
our eyes we want a record made of them if the power & blessings of
