ture to you but there are meny things to take
place that I cannot write in my opinion. I am
but a poor scritbe and my health is not good and
has not been since I suffered so much in trying
to escape the wrath of our enemies in the time
of our persecution traveling and working with wet
and cold feet for 6 weeks in the breaking up of winter
was finely settled here. since my heathh has been poor.
And now, I would ask if it is proper and you think
me worthy if you are willing to rermber me in your
crircle as you pray in the temple that I may gain
my helth for I should be glad to live a while yet
if the Lord and my brethren were willing for when
our bodies die they go down to silence and the spirit
of those who have ben baptised go to a place of rest where
I suppose there is no laber, and to be deprived of laber
it must seem like a prison to me, and I wish for
that reason to serve the Lord a little longer in the
flesh. I am only 78 y[ear]s old since the 28th day of August
I have have kept the word of wisdom since 1859,
and my blessing received from Patrarch John young
promises me to live to be gathered up to Zion the center
ture to you but there are meny things to take
place that I cannot write in my opinion. I am
but a poor scribe and my health is not good and
has not been since I suffered so much in trying
to escape the wrath of our enemies in the time
of our persecution traveling and working with wet
and cold feet for 6 weeks in the breaking up of winter
was finely settled here. since my heathh has been poor.
And now, I would ask if it is proper and you think
me worthy if you are willing to rermber me in your
circle as you pray in the temple that I may gain
my helth for I should be glad to live a while yet
if the Lord and my brethren were willing for when
our bodies die they go down to silence and the spirit
of those who have ben baptised go to a place of rest where
I suppose there is no laber, and to be deprived of laber
it must seem like a prison to me, and I wish for
that reason to serve the Lord a little longer in the
flesh. I am only 78 years old since the 28th day of August
I have have kept the word of wisdom since 1859,
and my blessing received from Patrarch John young
promises me to live to be gathered up to Zion the center
"Letter from Phineas Wolcott Cook, 22 November 1897," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/2gp1