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HISTORY
OF
WILFORD WOODRUFF.
-[FROM HIS OWN PEN.]-

May 5—While laboring for Joseph
Young, Kirtland was visited with a
sudden storm of wind and rain, a cur-
rent passed south of the Temple in the
form of a whirlwind or tornado, which
destroyed and injured several build-
ings, it crushed one of Joseph Young's
buildings, and removed the one we
were in some 10 feet, but no person
was injured.

I felt impressed to go out upon a
mission; the Spirit was upon me, and
led me to go to Fox Islands; it was a
country I had never visited. I named
my feelings upon the subject to Elders
Kimball, Rigdon and others; they
encouraged me to go. Elder Kimball
blessed me, and said in the name of
the Lord, I should be blessed and
prospered on my mission, and do a
good work. I proposed to Jonathan
H. Hale to accompany me, which he
did.

May 31—I left my wife and friends
in Kirtland, and walked to Fairport
with brother Hale; we were joined by
Milton Holmes, and took the steamer
Sandusky and arrived in Buffalo, June
1st, and Syracuse on the 4th; walked
36 miles to Richmond [Richland], Oswego county,
New York, and called upon my two
brothers, Azmon and Thomson, whom
I had not seen for several years. We
visited the churches as far as Sackett's
Harbor, called upon Archibald
Patten, and delivered to him some
letters from Warren Parish, in which
were enclosed many one hundred
dollar bills, which he had taken from
the Kirtland Bank.

We crossed Lake Ontario, visited
Upper Canada, and attended a confe-
rence, May 10th, with Elders John E.
Page and James Blakesly, in the
township of Bastard, Leeds County.
There were eight branches represented,
containing 300 members. 13 Elders,
5 Priests, 8 Teachers and 6 Deacons.
Elder William Draper and myself
ordained 7 Elders, 9 Priests, 11 Teach-
ers, and 5 Deacons: five were baptized
by Elder Page at the close of the Con-
ference.

A woman was possessed of the devil
and greatly afflicted, much of the time
was dumb; four of us laid hands upon
her, and cast the devil out in the
name of Jesus Christ, and she was
made whole, and gave thanks unto
God, and went on her way rejoic-
ing.

We visited several other Branches
and preached the word of God, and
several of the sick were healed.

We returned to Kingston, took
steamer for Oswego, and canal for
Albany; Brothers John Goodson,
Isaac Russel and John Snider accom-
panied us from Canada, and left us at
Schenectady, to join Elders Kimball,
Hyde and Richards at New York, to
go to England.

We walked from Albany to Farm-
ington, Conn.; attended a conference
of the Saints in Canaan; arrived at
my father's house July 6th. This was
the first time I had seen my father or
relatives in Conn., since I joined the
Church; they received me kindly.
On the 10th, I preached in the City
Hall in Colinsville, and a mob gather-
ed and attempted to break up the
meeting, with fife and drum, holloa-
ing and yelling; they were urged on
by a Presbyterian priest. At the close
of the meeting the priest came to me