for your future Good and that is what
Leasure time you have to read Devote it
to reading the Bible Book of Mormon and Covenants and you will there find those
principle and knowledge that you will
Need to sustain you through and will
help you to lead your Children in
the principals of virtue righteousness
& truth. I have read all three of those
books through since I left Salt Lake
City and I find them vary profitable, what
we store up in this life will go with us
and affect us in the world to come, whether
it be good or Evil and we kneed all
the good we can procure to prepare us
to inherit Eternal Life and it requires
a whole life Devoted to God to accomplish
this and there is nothing more blessed and
comforting to a parents heart than to have
good children write to me when you can
and I pray for you daily and I say God.
Bless you and all the family
your Affectionate Father
W W
for your future Good and that is what
Leasure time you have to read Devote it
to reading the Bible Book of Mormon and
Covenants and you will there find those
principle and knowledge that you will
Need to sustain you through and will
help you to lead your Children in
the principals of virtue righteousness
& truth. I have read all three of those
books through since I left Salt Lake
City and I find them vary profitable, what
we store up in this life will go with us
and affect us in the world to come, whether
it be good or Evil and we kneed all
the good we can procure to prepare us
to inherit Eternal Life and it requires
a whole life Devoted to God to accomplish
this and there is nothing more blessed and
comforting to a parents heart than to have
good children write to me when you can
and I pray for you daily and I say God.
Bless you and all the family
your Affectionate Father
"Letter to Emma Manella Woodruff, 16 October 1879," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/nr4Y