7th Sunday I did not Attend meeting. spoke in the morn-
ing upon the Priesthood & those who held the priesthood or the thereoff
Elders & spoke in the Afternoon. Br Trip said said
He called upon Mother & she clasped him in her arms (they were
formerly acquainted) & she said In My son Enoch I am glad to again
see you I am glad to see a man again from she cryed
for Joy, and said she had desired for two years to be with the
in the vallies of the but others had hindered her she alluded
to she says give my love to & & all the
Faithful Saints for my heart is with them
I attended the prayer circle in the evening. After prayers President
B. Young W Woodruff & all in the prayer circle
upon Elder P. P. Pratt Head & blessed him. President Young was
Mouth I never heard a better given to man it was not
written at the time but afterwords an outline was written by
Elder pratt & filed in the Elder was
also blessed J M Grant was Mouth I then
President Young remarked at the closed of the blessing that I am
going to take a mission I will name it here. I want to go through this
with H. C. Kimball & J. M. Grant & I want the 12 to go (Brother
Parley says Brother Woodruff the Historian is all of the Twelve there is here)
I want to go through among this people & preach the gospel to them If I can
get red of some of the care of my temporal business I do not feel that
I am in the path of my duty to spend so much of my time in attending
to temporal Matters I think more of one soul than I do of all that
I have scraped together I feel that with the assistance of my brethren that
I could make a great wake by going through this Territory & preaching the gospel
to the people. I feel that some men ought never to be called upon to do another
days work but they should spend there time in preaching the gospel they should
have a man to take care of their Families this should be the case with P P Pratt
He should spend his time preaching we should devote our time to the ministry
as far as possible
At the close of the meeting I returned & found sister & sister
at my house. Sister sayers wished me to Bless her as she was going on
her Mission I upon her & blessed her as she was going East on
her mission the spirit bore testimony that all should be right with
her & that she should prosper on her Journey & return in peace
