nearest house on the road. He went out of sight in great haste I then knelt
down in the water & prayed the Lord to heal me up & the spirit of the Lord rested
upon me & I was healed the pain left me I arose & went my way ^*^ whenever
I met with one or more families I preached to them & bore
my testimony as I went alone to the people I arrived at the Missippi River
& crossed it in the evening of the 27^th March 1835
(*^after^ that night that ^after^ Brother Brown left me in trying to travel in the night to me he lost
his ^way^ got into a thicket of brambles & tore nearly all of his cloths off from him
He stoped at a cabin & took him nearly all night to mend up his clothes)
I stoped for the night at a publick house kept by Mr Josiah Jackson I was rote
up for ^of being^ an imposture Mr Jackson believed I was one of Murrells clan ^instead of a Mormon preacher^ who was
then murdering & stealing Negroes through the country & to test the thing he gathered
to gether a large house full of the the wickedest & most corrupt J Gentry in the city
& set me to preaching, to them, to test whether I could preach or not. I do not
think that Mr Jackson or the same company of men & women will ever meet
to gether again for the same purpose to test whether a Mormon Elder could preach or
not for they would not like again to have their sins & abominations revealed to
each other as plainly & pointedly as I told them that night through the inspiration
of the Holy Ghost, they seemed glad to get rid of me upon almost any terms,
I travelled from Memphis to Middle Tennessee. And on the 4^th of April
I met with Elder Warren Parish at Father Frys in Benton County ^Middle^ Tennessee
He & David Patten had been labouring to gether through the winter in Tennessee they had
baptized some 20 or 30 persons Elder Patten had returned to Kirtland at that time
before I arrived. I joined Elder Parrish & we laboured to gether ^over 3 months^ and continued
*^and travelled & preached daily baptizing such as would receive our testimony on the 23rd of June^
^we received a letter from Oliver Cowdery saying that they wished ^Elder^ Parrish to come to Kirtland & for me to remain^
^to take charge of the Southern Churches & the Lord would bless me in so doing^
to extend our labourse through Tennessee & Kentucky, Elder Warren Parrish ordained
me to the office of an Elder. On the 28^th day of June at Father Frys Eagle
Creek Benton County Tennessee we baptized some 40 persons while labouring to gether
& on the 23rd of July ^1835^ I parted with Elder Parish also returned to Kirtland
This left me alone in my labours in the South. I continued to travel alone
through the year & extended my labours both in Kentucky & Tennessee I baptized
43 persons during this season 31 after Brother Parrish left me

On the 15 day of Nov while traveling about 12 miles in the night with severall
of the Brethren among whom was Brother Benjamin Clapp, a tremendous storm of wind
& rain over took us it was exceeding dark we bacame lost in a forest & we
crossed a dangerous stream some 20 times we had a creek to cross, the rain
^stream^ had swollen to such an extent by the rain that we could not cross without

nearest house on the road. He went out of sight in great haste I then knelt down in the water & prayed the Lord to heal me & the spirit of the Lord rested upon me & I was healed the pain left me I arose & went my way * whenever I met with one or more families I preached to them & bore my testimony as I went alone to the people I arrived at the Missippi River & crossed it in the evening of the 27 [FIGURE] (* after his way ) [FIGURE] I stoped for the night at a publick house kept by Mr Josiah Jackson I was of being an imposture Mr Jackson believed I was one of Murrell clan who was then murdering & stealing Negroes through the country & to test the thing he gathered to gether a large house full of the the wickedest & most corrupt Gentry in the city & set me to preaching, to them, to test whether I could preach or not. I do not think that Mr Jackson or the same company of men & women will ever meet to gether again for the same purpose to test whether a Mormon Elder could preach or not for they would not like again to have their sins & abominations revealed to each other as plainly & pointedly as I told them that night through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they seemed glad to get rid of me upon almost any terms, I travelled from Memphis to Middle Tennessee. And on the 4th of April I met with Elder Warren Parish in Benton County He & David Patten had been labouring to gether through the winter in Tennessee they had baptized some 20 or persons Elder Patten had returned to Kirtland at that time before I arrived. I joined Elder Parrish & we laboured to gether over 3 months and continued *and travelled & preached daily baptizing such as would receive our testimony on the 23rd of June we received a letter from Oliver Cowdery saying that they wished Elder Parrish to come to Kirtland & for me to remain to take charge of the Southern Churches & the Lord would bless me in so doing to extend our labourse through Tennessee & Kentucky, Elder Warren Parrish ordained me to the office of an Elder. On the 28th day of June at Father Frys Eagle Creek Benton County Tennessee we baptized some 40 persons while labouring to gether & on the 23rd of July 1835 Elder Parish returned to Kirtland This left me alone in my labours in the South. I continued to travel alone through the year & extended my labours both in Kentucky & Tennessee I baptized 43 persons during this season 31 after Brother Parrish left me

On the 15 day of Nov while traveling about 12 miles in the night with severall of the Brethren among whom was Brother Benjamin Clapp, a tremendous storm of wind & rain over took us it we had a creek to cross, the stream had swollen to such an extent by the rain that we could not cross without