would get it first, left all other business and went to work, cleaned
out the room, and immediately spread down our blanke[t]s, so as to hold
a night to the room. It was but a short time afterward that our b
brethren who were attacked by cholera, were brough in and liad upon
our beds. None of us ever used those blankets agains, for they
were buried with the diead. So we gained nothing but experience
by being selfish, and we lost our bedding.

A[f]ter Joseph, the Prophet, had led Zion's Camp to Missouri
and we had passed through all the trials of the journey, and had
buried a number of our brethren, as recorded in history, the
Prophet called the Camp together, and organized the Church in Zion
and gave us much good counsel to all.

He advised all the young men, who had not families, to stay
in Missouri and not return to Kirtland. Not having any ^family^ I stopped
with Lyman Wight as did Milton Holmes and Heman Hyde. We spent
the summer together, laboring hard cutting wheat, quarrying rock,
making brick, or anygthing else we could find to do.