6^th I spent the fore part of the day in the office on History. I met
with Parley P. Pratt and a company of Missionary in the 70^s Hall
P. P. Pratt W Woodruff Joseph Young, Z. Pulsipher A. P. Rockwood
& H. S. Eldridge Blessed 24 Missionaries 20 To England & 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 of Heaven come & Feed you as the ravens did Elisha [1 Kings 17:1-6]
then I would want you to record that, but I do feel to Enjoin it upon you
to make a record of Evry official ackt 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 an 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 prRevelations fulfilling in our day & as they are transpireing before
our eyes we want a record made of them if the power & blessings of

God are made manifest in your preservation from Danger & death
you should make a record of it keep an account of the dealings of
God with you daily. I have written all the blessings I have received
& I would not take gold for them. I am in the Historians office & I find
it vary difficult to get or find a record of Events as they past
along shuch as we want to make the History but if the Elders will take
pains to write their Official Acts so the Historian can get hold of
them it will be a benefit to the Church the History of this Church
will remain throught time & In Eternity *

Elder P. P. Pratt followed & backed up my testimony & said he had
reflected upon this subject for years to know what a man should write
& have come to the conclusion that a man should write his
official acts in the priesthood I have been sorry that I have not
kept more of a Journal than I have I wish I had written evry
mans name that I had ever baptized or administered unto it
is necesary for us to keep a Journal.

* W. Woodruff said if their was no other motive in view ownly to have
the privilege of reading over our Journals & for our children to read it
would pay for the time spent in writing it

I left while Elder Pratt was speaking & wento to the Council House &
attended the Agricultural Meeting see minutes of meeting in the D News
of Sept 10^th. I spent the night at home was poorly in health I
suffer much in the rheumatisms