was on his way home by ^M^cLane^

At the close of the blessing President Young
remarked: "I am going to take a mission I will name it here
I want to go through this Territory with Heber C Kimball and
J M Grant and I want the Twelve to go. (Brother Parley observed
Brother Woodruff the Historian is all of the Twelve here). Brigham
said I want to go through among this people and preach the
Gospel to them if I can get rid of some of the care of my
temporal business. I do not feel that I am in the path of
my duty to spend so much of my time in attending to temporal
matters. I think more of one soul than I do all that
I have scraped together. I feel that with the assistance
of my brethren I could make a great wake by going through
this Territory and preaching the Gospel to the people. I feel
that some men ought never to be called upon to do a day's
work but they should spend their time in pereaching the
Gospel. They should have a man to take care of
their families. This should be the case with Parley
P. Pratt. He should spend his time preaching. We
should devote our time to the ministry as far as possible

When I returned home I found sister
Sayers and sister Cobb at my house. Sister Sayers wished
me to bless her as she was going to the States on a mission
I laid my hands upon her and blessed her and said that
all should be right with her and that she should be prospered
on her journey and return in peace.

Next day I wrote a letter to Dr
Asa Fitch of New York and sent him a tin box of insects
from Utah including one Tarantula 2 bugs called Scorpian's
Miller 1 Tobacco-worm miller one small spider and
several grasshoppers ^&c^

On the following day I wrote a letter

was on his way home by McLane

At the close of the blessing President Young remarked: "I am going to take a mission I will name it here I want to go through this Territory with Heber C Kimball and J M Grant and I want the Twelve to go. (Brother Parley observed Brother Woodruff the Historian is all of the Twelve here). Brigham said I want to go through among this people and preach the Gospel to them if I can get rid of some of the care of my temporal business. I do not feel that I am in the path of my duty to spend so much of my time in attending to temporal matters. I think more of one soul than I do all that I have scraped together. I feel that with the assistance of my brethren I could make a great wake by going through this Territory and preaching the Gospel to the people. I feel that some men ought never to be called upon to do a day's work but they should spend their time in preaching the Gospel. They should have a man to take care of their families. This should be the case with Parley P. Pratt. He should spend his time preaching. We should devote our time to the ministry as far as possible

When I returned home I found sister Sayers and sister Cobb at my house. Sister Sayers wished me to bless her as she was going to the States on a mission I laid my hands upon her and blessed her and said that all should be right with her and that she should be prospered on her journey and return in peace.

Next day I wrote a letter to Dr Asa Fitch of New York and sent him a tin box of insects from Utah including one Tarantula 2 bugs called Scorpian's Miller 1 Tobacco-worm miller one small spider and several grasshoppers &c

On the following day I wrote a letter