and distress with Blood in my shoes & spent
years & years at it & left my wife & children
who have also suffered much. let them do as
we have done, & they will not be jealous of
me about blessings. If the Lord should give
me a thousand women is it any mans business
No. Let such go and spend as much time as
I have And there will be many clinging on to
there skirts to be saved. the majority of the
men of the gentile world will be damned and
the women wished to be saved by going with good
men. And a woman that has the spirit of God
will go with a good man who has been with
faithful & spent much of his time in saveing
mankind and has the priest hood such men
if they continue faithful will be saved in eternal
Glory & those that are with him. I an deter[mi]ned
that my affections shall be with God, I will
not allow them to be placed on things that
perish when plagues & diseases get hold of our
bodies we become loathsome & beauty fades away
but our affections should be placed upon things
that are Noble exhalted lasting & glorious I love
an exhalted mind for it is eternal & cannot fade
I want all my affections to be subject to God
and glory & eternal life. May God bless you Amen

September 14, 1846 ~ Monday

14^th Monday I spent the day in laying out a city
for the winters encampment

September 15, 1846 ~ Tuesday

15^th In company with Father Woodruff & John
Fowler And my family I started with my
carriage & Mules for a ride we rode 4 miles to
the general Hayfield I crossed the table land
to the buff there left the family & carriage
& we mounted our Horses & rode about 2 miles
to A lake about 2 miles in length & 1/4 mile wide

and distress with blood in my shoes & spent years & years at it & left my wife & children who have also suffered much. let them do as we have done & they will not be jealous of me about blessings. If the Lord should give me a thousand women is it any mans business No. Let such go and spend as much time as I have and there will be many clinging on to there skirts to be saved. the majority of the men of the gentile world will be damned and the women wish to be saved by going with good men. And a woman that has the spirit of God will go with a good man who has been faithful & spent much of his time in saveing mankind and has the priest hood such men if they continue faithful will be saved in eternal glory & those that are with him. I an determined that my affections shall be with God, I will not allow them to be placed on things that perish when plagues & diseases get hold of our bodies we become loathsome & beauty fades away but our affections should be placed upon things that are noble exhalted lasting & glorious I love an exhalted mind for it is eternal & cannot fade I want all my affections to be subject to God and glory & eternal life. May God bless you amen

September 14, 1846 ~ Monday

14th Monday I spent the day in laying out a city for the winters encampment

September 15, 1846 ~ Tuesday

15th In company with Father Woodruff & John Fowler and my family I started with my carriage & mules for a ride we rode 4 miles to the general hayfield I crossed the table land to the buff there left the family & carriage & we mounted our horses & rode about 2 miles to a lake about 2 miles in length & 1/4 mile wide