this created a great wailing & mourning with his famil, Brother Brown
& myself assisted the family in laying him out & burying him. He died
on the 14^th day of Feb 1835 & we buried him on the 16. This clo singular
dispensation of providence brought solemnity upon the people & they began to reflect &
wished to hear preaching, we held several meetings & preached to the people we
baptized a Mr Hubbel & his wife aged people who had opened their doors
& given us a home & just as we had got the people prepared to receive
the Gospel & anxious to learn & pleading with us to stay & preach, Brother
Brown resolved that he would continue his journey south. I was fully satisfied
that should we stop we should build up a Church, & I was convinced it was
our duty to stop but Brother Brown held the office of an Elder I a priest
& we were travelling together upon a mission, & I felt that I must subject
to those over me in the priesthood, so I submitted. This is an error which
many have committed in this Church who were sent as missionaries to the
world, as soon as they get doors open & a people prepared to receive the gospel
they go away & leave them we left this people with tears in their eyes we left
& Brother Brown did not baptize another person during his whole southern
mission we left them on the 2nd day of March went upon the bank of
the Arkansas River cut down a large cotton wood tree dug out a canoe
4 feet wide 12 feet long put on a pair of oars & rowed down the Arkansas
River 125 miles to Little Rock geting ^beging^ our food by the way a meal at a time
as we had an opportunity, after visiting Little Rock we tied up our canoe ^travelled down the river 10 miles^ on
below Little Rock & tied up our canoe on the East Bank & stoped with a Mr Jones
preached next day at his house on the 16 left our canoe with Mr Jones walked back
^the East Bank of the Arkansas River & started on foot to ward & wade the Mississippi^
^Swamp to Memphis Tennessee we travelled on the old military road it was over 200
miles the way we travelled ^up the river 10 miles took the old^ ^the road^ & almost the whole distance was knee deep in mud &
water up the river 10 miles opposite Little Rock & took the old military
road & started to waid the missippi swamp which was mostly covered with
water from Little Rock Arkansas to Memphis Tennessee, a distance of
about 175 miles, we waided through mud & water knee deep day after day & in some instances
40 miles per day before we could get a stoping place. On the 24^th while in the
swamp I had an attack of the rheumatism & could not travel but slow
My companion Brother Brown had got in a hurry & wished to hasten to
the Missippi River take boat close up his mission, take boat & return
to his family in Kirtland, & as I could not travel as fast as he
wished so we parted to meet no more for about 3 years he left me siting on
a log in the mud & water I being lame & unable to walk & no food & 12 miles to the

this created a great wailing & mourning with his famil, Brother Brown & myself assisted in laying him out & burying him. He died on the 14 singular dispensation of providence brought solemnity upon the people & they began to reflect & wished to hear preaching, we held several meetings & preached to the people we baptized a Mr Hubbel & his wife aged people who had opened their doors & given us a home & just as we had got the people prepared to receive the Gospel & anxious to learn & pleading with us to stay & preach, Brother Brown resolved that he would continue his journey south. I was fully satisfied that should we stop we should build up a Church, & I was convinced it was our duty to stop but Brother Brown held the office of an Elder I a priest & we were travelling together upon a mission, & I felt that I must subject to those over me in the priesthood, so I submitted. This is an error which many have committed in this Church who were sent as missionaries to the world, as soon as they get doors open & a people prepared to receive the gospel they go away & leave them we left this people with tears in their eyes & Brother Brown did not baptize another person during his whole southern mission we left them on the 2nd day of March went upon the bank of the Arkansas River cut down a large cotton wood tree dug out a canoe 4 feet wide 12 feet long put on a pair of oars & rowed down the Arkansas River 125 miles to Little Rock beging our food by the way a meal at a time as we had an opportunity, after visiting Little Rock we travelled down the river 10 miles on below Little Rock & tied up our canoe on the East Bank & stoped with Mr Jones preached next day at his house on the 16 left our canoe with Mr Jones walked back up the river 10 miles opposite Little Rock & took the old military road & started to waid the missippi swamp which was mostly covered with water from Little Rock Arkansas to Memphis Tennessee, a distance of about 175 miles, we waided through mud & water knee deep day after day & in some instances 40 miles per day before we could get a stoping place. On the 24th while in the swamp I had an attack of the rheumatism & could not travel but slow My companion Brother Brown had got in a hurry & wished to hasten to the Missippi close up his mission, take boat & return to his family in Kirtland, & as I could not travel as fast as he wished so we parted he left me siting on a log in the mud & water I being lame & unable to walk & no food & 12 miles to the