Wilford helps dedicate baptismal font beside unfinished Salt Lake City Temple in Salt Lake City.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
November 06, 1856 ~ Thursday
6th Presidents Kimball & GJ M Grant called into the Historians office
& conversed upon principle. Brother Kimball said that any man
that was faithful in the priesthood would have all the blessings
He could imagin or think in his heart and when Father Joseph
Smith was on his dying bed I asked him to bless me so it might
be written as he had blessed me several times & it was not written
but Father Smith told me to write down every thing that I could think
of in my heart or imagin & he would sign it & it should come
to pass but He said a man must keep the Commandments of God
in order to obtain the blessings. we had a hard snow storm at mid-
day Elder F. D Richards spent a part of the afternoon with me in the office
I had a pleasing [interview] with President B. Young J. D. Grant upon various
principles things remarks were made upon by gone days
I met with the 14 ward in the evening with the missionaries I
spoke to the people was followed by Brother Daniel D. Hunt E. B. Trip
& Levi Richards & Bishop Hoagland the spirit of God was with us
& we had a good meeting
People
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Hoagland, Abraham Lucas
24 Mar 1797 - 14 Feb 1872
86 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3450 mentions
Apostle, Family
Hunt, Daniel Durham
1 Feb 1797 - 7 Oct 1866
8 mentions
9 mentions
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
816 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1457 mentions
Apostle
Grant, Jedediah Morgan
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
280 mentions
Apostle, Zion's Camp
Smith, Joseph (Sr.)
12 Jul 1771 - 14 Sep 1840
134 mentions
Richards, Levi
14 Apr 1799 - 18 Jun 1876
64 mentions
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6th Presidents Kimball & J M Grant called into the Historians office & conversed upon principle Brother Kimball said that any man that was faithful in the priesthood would have all the blessings He could imagin or think in his heart and when Father Joseph Smith was on his dying bed I asked him to bless me so it might be written as he had blessed me several times & it was not written but Father Smith told me to write down every thing that I could think of in my heart or imagin & he would sign it & it should come to pass but He said a man must keep the Commandments of God
~ President Kimball
in order to obtain the blessings.
~ President Kimball
Events
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First baptisms administered in baptismal font; members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles rebaptized (4th rebaptism for Wilford).
Wilford serves seventh term as member of Territorial Legislature.
Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
Church membership is 55,236.
Wilford and George A. Smith complete Manuscript History of the Church up to Joseph Smith's death in 1844.