Elder Taylor followed & backed up the Testimony of those
who had spoke He was followed by Elder Cannon. all the
Twelve present spoke & much of the spirit of God rested
upon us & we were Blessed & felt it good to be there
Elder Taylor Prophesyed that the Twelve should be delivered
from the bondage of the poverty under which they had
been weltering for years At the close of the Meeting I
went & got my sleigh & Mules & took Elders Hyde & G. A.
Smith & their wives home through a driving snow storm 23rd President Young met at a party at Jennings in
the Evening
~ Saturday
23rd I went down to Brother Sheets Barn yard &
got 4 cows & 1 calf driven in yesterday from
the range I took 3 of them to the Butchers one drove home I spent a part of the day in the Endowment House
we gave Endowments to 27. G Q Cannon sealed 12 W. W. 2.
I met with the Jordon Irrigation Company & the
company voted to give W. Woodruff 20 Acres any
whare in the survey gratis free of all Expens allso a [FIGURE] city lot They also voted to give G A Smith 100 Acres and
considerable other business (Ensign Woodruff was born 15 M[inutes] 3 oclok
~ Sunday
24 Sunday A hard snowey day I did not attend Meeting
I met with some of the Twelve in the prayer circle in the Evening
~ Monday
25 Christmass I spent the day at home & took supper
then went to the Theater in the Evening
~ Tuesday
26. A vary cold Blustering day I took Emma &
her two children to go to the farm I found no road
broke to my farm to the state road & in trying to get to my house I got
my Mules in to snow drifts 6 feet deep & it was with great difficulty
that I could get through Emma took the children out of the sleigh
into the snow so they all got quite chilled before I got my Mules
out & could get them to the House. it is an Exceding Hard Dec
~ Wednesday
27. I rbroak a road through the deep snows to the state rode & returned
to the city took a Beef from the slaughter house home then again
returned back to my farm & spent the night I cleared my sheds
of snow during the Evening 4 m[iles]
Elder Taylor followed & backed up the Testimony of those
who had spoke He was followed by Elder Cannon, all the
Twelve present spoke & much of the spirit of God rested
upon us & we were Blessed & felt it good to be there
Elder Taylor Prophesyed that the Twelve should be delivered
from the bondage of the poverty under which they had
been weltering for years. At the close of the Meeting I
went & got my sleigh & Mules & took Elders Hyde & G. A.
Smith & their wives home through a driving snow storm
President Young met at a party at Jennings in
the Evening
~ Saturday
23rd I went down to Brother Sheets Barn yard &
got 4 cows & 1 calf driven in yesterday from
the range I took 3 of them to the Butchers one drove
drove one home. I spent a part of the day in the Endowment House
we gave Endowments to 27. G Q Cannon sealed 12 W. W. 2.
I met with the Jordon Irrigation Company & the
company voted to give W. Woodruff 20 Acres any whare in the survey gratis free of all Expens also a
[FIGURE] city lot. They also voted to give G A Smith 100 acres and
considerable other business (Ensign Woodruff was born 15 Minutes 3 oclok
~ Sunday
24 Sunday A hard snowey day I did not attend Meeting
I met with some of the Twelve in the prayer circle in the Evening
~ Monday
25 Christmass I spent the day at home & took supper
then went to the Theater in the Evening
~ Tuesday
26. A vary cold Blustering day I took Emma &
her two children to go to the farm I found no road
broke to my farm to the state road & in trying to get to my house I got
my Mules in to snow drifts 6 feet deep & it was with great difficulty
that I could get through Emma took the children out of the sleigh
into the snow so they all got quite chilled before I got my Mules
out & could get them to the House. it is an Exceding Hard Dec
~ Wednesday
27. I broak a road through the deep snows to the state rode & returned
to the city took a Beef from the slaughter house home then again
returned back to my farm & spent the night I cleared my sheds
of snow during the Evening 4 miles
"Journal (October 22, 1865 – December 31, 1872)," December 22, 1865 - December 27, 1865, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 21, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/wp98