The first day of May 1834, was appointed for the Camp of Zion to start from Kirtland to go up to Missouri for the redemption of their brethren. Only a small portion of the Camp was ready. The Prophet told those who were ready to go to New Portage and wait for the remainder. I left, in company with about twenty men, with the baggage wagons. At night we pitches our tents. I went to the top of a hill and looked down upon the camp of Israel. I knelt upon the ground and prayed. I rejoiced and praised the Lord that I had lived to soo some of the tents of Israel pitches, and a company gathered by the commandment of God to go up and help redeem Zion.

The Lord delivered Israel in the days of Moses by dividing the Red Sea, so they went over dry shod. When their enemies tried to do the same, the water closed upon them and they were dtowned. The Lord delivered Zion's Camp from their enemies on the 19th of June, 1834, by piling up the waters in Fishing River forty feet in one night, so our enemies could not cross. He also sent a great h hail storm which broke them up and sent them seeking for shelter.