March 30, 1856 ~ Sunday

March 30^th Sunday I attended at the Tabernacle the
meeting throug the day & the prayer meeting in the evening

March 31, 1856 ~ Monday to April 5, 1856 ~ Saturday

March 31 to April 5^th I spent this week ploughing & putting
in wheat I finished putting in 14 1/2 Acres of wheat

April 6, 1856 ~ Sunday

April 6^th 1856 Conference commenced in the Bowery
[FIGURE] this morning at 10 oclok the minutes of which are
published in the Deseret News of April 9^th. At 5 oclock PM
Elders P P Pratt O Pratt, W Woodruff L Snow & E Snow
Blessed 115 Missionaries who were appointed to go on Missions
to the Lamanites & Gentiles. The day was occupied by President
Young G. A. Smith And O pratt.

April 7, 1856 ~ Monday

7^th The fore part of the day was occupied by P. P. Pratt &
L. Snow in the Afternoon W Woodruff delivered an
Address upon the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society
All the Authorities of the Church were presented & received
And W. Woodruff was Appointed Assistant Historian was to
take care of charge of the office during the absence of G. A. Smith

The Twelve met in the Tabernacle at 5 oclok & Blessed &
set apart 88 Missionaries thay blessed & set apart 255
255 persons in all During the conference W. Woodruff ordained
in company with others 12 to the office of Seventies He Blessed
Wilford Woodruff Brandon & ordained him He was named
after me 18 years ago I Baptized his Father & Mother 22 years
ago in Tennessee his Father has been dead several years I
took him home to my house gave him one Dollar a Blessing
& good council & let him go his way

April 8, 1856 ~ Tuesday

8^th The day was mostly occupied by E T Benson O Pratt
& Patrick Lynch. Conference Adjourned till the 6^th day
of Oct next

April 9, 1856 ~ Wednesday to April 12, 1856 ~ Saturday

9^th to 12 I spent the time farming & gardning the Calafornia
Mail had came in about the first of the Month & brought me
one letter from J. M. Bernhisel & the Mormon I wrote
[FIGURES] 5 letters 3 to J Taylor & 2 to J M Bernhisel I was
called to lay hands upon sister J. M. Bernhisel some 2 weeks
since she was delivered of a fine son the same night

April 13, 1856 ~ Sunday

13^th Sunday Elder O. Pratt preached in the forenoon upon
the evidences of the Book of Mormon He quoted a good
deal from Lord Kingsborough extensive work upon the
Antiquities of the American Indians & Mexicans the most
extensive work ever got up by the gentiles upon this subject
it is in 9 volumes each vol will weigh 30 or 40 lbs many of
the manuscrips have been deposited among the Archives of
Europe for hundred of years there was but 30 or 40 copies
ever published it is said, & but two of those copies are in America
one in the Philadelphia Museum & the other in the City of the Great
Salt Lake owned by Professor Orson Pratt.

J. M. Grant Preached
in the Afternoon spoke of Golightly's shop being broaken open & 150
lbs of flour taken from it. W. Woodruff lost 35 lbs from his