Day in the Life

Sep 18, 1859

Journal Entry

September 18, 1859 ~ Sunday

18 Sunday I met with my Quorum at 9 oclok Bishop
Hunter prayed Richard Bentley was mouth I attended
meeting at the Tabernacle. J Gates O. Pratt T. B. H Stenhouse
& H C Kimball spoke in the morning & Erastus snow
Oleen Liljinquist, Robert Nuslin & H C Kimball in
the after noon. At 6 oclok A.M. I met with Presidents
A single key with teeth to the right Young Kimball & Wells, & O Pratt W Woodruff
J Taylor Erastus Snow E T Benson & F D Richards
of the Twelve to Bless the missionaries. The Presidency
& O Pratt & W Woodruff Blessed & set apart for mis-
sions John Vancott Jacob Gates, E. H. Blackburn N. V.
Jones Lewis Bertrand Oleas Liljinquist for foreign
missions & Wm H Hooper as delegate to Washington
& Andrew Moffit to go on Busines & John Taylor
Blessed Marian J Shelton to go on a mission to the Moq-
uiches. President B Young then gave the Missionaries good
instruction promised them great Blessings if they would
do right & keep out of the snare of women which is the
overthrow of more men than any other Evil & among
other things. He said they should do a greater work than
the same number of Elders ever did & when you labour
in thinking till you get exausted dont tax your mind
in that stage but stop thinking it is a wrong doctrin
to always keep up a constant thinking this is the
way I get through so much business. I will deal with
fifty different subjects in an hour & when I get through
I will think no more about any of them I can lie down
& go to sleep in a minute & let my mind & Body rest &
my business to dont fret or get a hurrying spirit for
that wears the body. This is a gloriouse doctrin & one that
would do me much good if I could or would practice it
He said Capt Hooper would be much better off if He would
practice it

The Twelve did not met in the circle.

People

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7 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3458 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
800 mentions
Apostle
277 mentions
16 mentions
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
699 mentions
Apostle
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
379 mentions
Apostle
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
816 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1459 mentions
Apostle
Gates, Jacob
9 Mar 1811 - 14 Apr 1892
73 mentions
Zion's Camp
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1961 mentions
Apostle
Van Cott, John
7 Sep 1814 - 18 Feb 1883
87 mentions
2 mentions
3 mentions
Jones, Nathaniel V.
13 Oct 1822 - 15 Feb 1863
26 mentions
11 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1085 mentions
Apostle
Bentley, Richard
1 Oct 1820 - 24 Mar 1906
32 mentions
13 mentions
Stenhouse, Thomas Brown Holmes
21 Feb 1824 - 7 Mar 1882
30 mentions
124 mentions

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Adobe Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Moquis Pueblos, Apache County, Arizona Territory
Washington, D.C., United States

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it is a wrong doctrin to always keep up a constant thinking this is the way I get through so much business. I will deal with fifty different subjects in an hour & when I get through I will think no more about any of them I can lie down & go to sleep in a minute & let my mind & Body rest & my business to dont fret or get a hurrying spirit for that wears the body.
~ Brigham Young

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Sep 18, 1859