New Years day 1842 found me in
the city of Nauvoo with the quorum of the Twelve and
our wives spending the day at the house of brother Stodard.
It was an interesting occassion for
us to meet together with our families at a festive
time in the city of the Saints in the midst of peace
and love. We could the more highly prize this privilege
as we were so often called to be seperated in the vineyard
of the Lord.
It was now my privilege and lot to
tarry for a season at home, and to provide for my family
This was the first time since I had been in the Church
that I had been thus privileged as I had been on missions most
of the time for eight years
As we had now the commandment
of the Lord to build the Temple and the Nauvoo
house resting upon us the probability was that the Quorum
of the Twelve would spend most of the time in Nauvoo
until the Temple was built.
On the of the month I sold to
brother John Horlick the South half of my lot and bought
two lots of Hyrum Kimball for $250 fifty of which
I paid him down in cloth and a watch and the other
Jan 1842
Chapter XIX
New Year's day 1842 found me in
the city of Nauvoo with the quorum of the Twelve and
our wives spending the day at the house of brother
Stodard.
It was an interesting occassion for
us to meet together with our families at a festive
time in the city of the Saints in the midst of peace
and love. We could the more highly prize this privilege
as we were so often called to be seperated in the vineyard
of the Lord
It was now my privilege and lot to
tarry for a season at home, and to provide for my family
This was the first time since I had been in the Church
that I had been thus privileged as I had been on missions most
of the time for eight years
As we had now the commandment
of the Lord to build the Temple and the Nauvoo
house resting upon us the probability was that the Quorum
of the Twelve would spend most of the time in Nauvoo
until the Temple was built.
On the 10th of the month I sold to
brother John Horlick the South half of my lot and bought
two lots of Hyrum Kimball for $250 fifty of which
I paid him down in cloth and a watch and the other
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