Nov 5th Sunday I went to meeting to the temple found the walls had been reared
several feet all around during the 4 months
of our adsence Elder S Rigdon Preached
during the day I visited many old acquaint
ances laid hands upon some that were
sick & returned home & spent the night
~ Monday to ~ Friday
6, , , & 10. I spent this week looking
after my affairs I found them in a bad
situation my house that I had commenced
before I left which I expected would hav
been reared with its roof on I found ownly
reared a few feet from the ground on the first
story I spent the week in making preperations
to carry on the work. I have found by
experience that a mans business will not
prosper as well when he is absent as present
During the evening I walked over to Br Taylors & spent some time in conversing about
the principle of the celestial world or some
of them Br Hiram Smith was in with us &
presented som ideas of much interest to me
concerning Baptism for the dead, the resurrection
redemption & exhaltation in the New & everlasting
covenant that reacheth into the eternal world
He sealed the marriage covenant between me
& my wife Phebe W. Carter for time & eternity
& gave us the principle of it which was inter
esting to us after spending the evening plesantly
we returned home & spent the night
~ Sunday
Nov 5th Sunday I went to meeting to the
temple found the walls had been reared
several feet all around during the 4 months
of our adsence Elder S Rigdon Preached
during the day I visited many old acquaint
ances laid hands upon some that were
sick & returned home & spent the night
~ Monday to ~ Friday
6, 7, 8, 9 & 10. I spent this week looking
after my affairs I found them in a bad
situation my house that I had commenced
before I left which I expected would hav
been reared with its roof on I found ownly
reared a few feet from the ground on the first
story I spent the week in making preperations
to carry on the work. I have found by
experience that a mans business will not
prosper as well when he is absent as present
7th I attended a council with the 12 was appointed
a committee with J. TaylorP. P. Pratt & B Young to raise $500 to Buy paper to print the Book of Covenents
~ Saturday
Nov 11th 1843
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During the evening I walked over to Br
Taylors & spent some time in conversing about
the principle of the celestial world or some
of them Br Hiram Smith was in with us &
presented som ideas of much interest to me
concerning Baptism for the dead, the resurrection
redemption & exhaltation in the New & everlasting
covenant that reacheth into the eternal world
He sealed the marriage covenant between me
& my wife Phebe W. Carter for time & eternity
& gave us the principle of it which was inter
esting to us after spending the evening plesantly
we returned home & spent the night
"Journal (January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844)," November 5, 1843 - November 11, 1843, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 6, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/x09