9 I received 2 letter to day from E Snow & G Teasdale
I spent the forenoon writing & Afternoon in council
~ Thursday
10 I spent this morning sprouting potatoes I gave away 100 B[ushels]
I gave 80 to Judge Smith or rather I let him have them
I got word that Sister Margarett Smoot was stricken with paraliysis and was vary low I went to the field spent the night 6 m[iles]
12 I took cars with Mrs Woodruff rode to Provo 50 M[iles]
we visited Br Smoot & family. Sister Margarett T.
Smoot was taken with paralasis was entirely deprived
of speech Mrs Phebe W Woodruff Anointed her
& A. O. Smoot Wm Smoot & my self laid hands upon
her And I Wilford Woodruff Blessed her and rebuked her
Disease and her speech began to come to her and
she was some better. I rode out in the Afternoon to the Insane Assylum which I found to be a vary substanciall
Building I visited the steam esstablishment for making Brick
whare by machinery the clay & Earth is ground and pressed
into Brick in 10 hours labor from 20 to 25000 Brick are
Made I spent the night at Br Smoots ^4 M[iles]^
~ Sunday
13 Sunday I met in the prayer circles & gave instruction
to them we Met at 10:30. W Woodruff spoke one hour
I administered again to sister Smoot
9 [FIGURE] I received 2 letter to day from E Snow & G Teasdale
I spent the forenoon writing & Afternoon in council
~ Thursday
10 [FIGURE] I spent this morning sprouting potatoes I gave away 100 Bushels
I gave 80 to Judge Smith or rather I let him have them
I got word that Sister Margarett Smoot was stricken with
[FIGURE] paralysis and was vary low I went to the field spent the night 6 miles
12 I took cars with Mrs Woodruff rode to Provo 50 Miles
we visited Br Smoot & family. Sister Margarett T.
Smoot was taken with paralasis was entirely deprived
of speech Mrs Phebe W Woodruff Anointed her
& A. O. Smoot Wm Smoot & my self laid hands upon
her And I Wilford Woodruff Blessed her and rebuked her
Disease and her speech began to come to her and
she was some better. I rode out in the Afternoon to the
Insane Assylum which I found to be a vary substanciall
Building I visited the steam esstablishment for making Brick
whare by machinery the clay & Earth is ground and pressed
into Brick in 10 hours labor from 20 to 25000 Brick are
Made I spent the night at Br Smoots 4 Miles
~ Sunday
13 Sunday I met in the prayer circles & gave instruction
to them we Met at 10:30. W Woodruff spoke one hour
I administered again to sister Smoot
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," May 8, 1883 - May 13, 1883, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/K8Vx