28th I attended a court with the quorum of
the Seventies to settle a difficulty between
Elder Hiram Stratten & I. H. Bishop Elder Holmes
and myself was chosen among the counsellors
Elder Stratten acknowledg'd his faults & was restored
~ Sunday
29th Sunday I met at Elder J. P. Greens at 9 AM
in company with 7 others to act as bearers to
convey the corps of Sister Mary Boyington to
the house of the Lord whare a funeral sermon
was deliverd by Elder P. P. Pratt the latter part
of the day was spent in communion & addresses
from Presidents O. Cowdery & J Smith, Jn
JOSEPH blessed us in the name of the Lord &
said if we would be faithful we should
rise above our imbarresments & be delivered
from the hands of our enemies
31st Met in the house of the Lord at 10 oclock AM
& herd an address from President's J. Smith jr
& S Rigdon on the temporal business of the
Church & Petitioned for a charter to the
Assembly of the state for the Kirtland
Safety Society & the presidency of the
Church bought the Monroe charter & we
all lent a hand in esstablishing it that it
might be benificial to us in forwarding the
building of the temporal Kingdom
~ Wednesday
Feb 1st I again commenced school confining
myself to the Latin language mostly
28th I attended a court with the quorum of
the seventies to settle a difficulty between
Elder Hiram Stratten & I. H. Bishop Elder Holmes
and myself was chosen among the counsellors
Elder Stratten acknowledg'd his faults & was restored
~ Sunday
29th Sunday I met at Elder J.P. Greens at 9 AM
in company with 7 others to act as bearers to
convey the corps of Sister Mary Boyington to
the house of the Lord whare a funeral sermon
was deliverd by Elder P. P. Pratt the latter part
of the day was spent in communion & addresses
from Presidents O. Cowdery & J Smith Jn
JOSEPH blessed us in the name of the Lord &
said if we would be faithful we should
rise above our imbarresments & be delivered
from the hands of our enemies
31st Met in the house of the Lord at 10 oclock AM
& herd an address from President's J. Smith jr
& S Rigdon on the temporal business of the
Church & Petitioned for a charter to the
assembly of the state for the Kirtland
Safety Society & the presidency of the
church bought the Monroe charter & we
all lent a hand in esstablishing it that it
might be benificial to us in forwarding the
building of the temporal Kingdom
~ Wednesday
Feb 1st I again commenced school confining
myself to the Latin language mostly
"Journal (December 29, 1833 – January 3, 1838)," January 27, 1837 - February 12, 1837, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/JY9