Jul 15, 2021
by Jane Clayton Johnson
By Jane Clayton Johnson During the final days of December 1833, twenty-six-year-old Wilford Woodruff, began his first journal as a new convert. He titled his first entry, “The First Book of Wilford.” Wilford had a divine calling to keep a record. In the preamble of his first journal he writes, “It is at once beneficial and instructive to the reflecting mind to review the past with candor and rightly consider the present and be in perfect readiness for that which is to come.&r ...
Jul 12, 2021
by Jennifer Ann Mackley
Wilford Woodruff met Colonel Solomon Copeland in April 1835 while preaching in Paris, Henry County, Tennessee. On April 21st he records, “Preached at the house of Col Soloman Copeland Henry Co Tennessee Mrs Copeland was healed by the laying on of hands.” They continued their friendship during Wilford’s mission to the Southern States, and the Copelands hosted Wilford dozens of times as he rode his preaching circuit through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. Nine years later, ...
Jul 11, 2021
by Kristy Wheelwright Taylor
In March of 1838, the newlyweds, Wilford and Phebe Woodruff, were in Maine where Phebe had accompanied Wilford on a mission, and where she was staying with her family in town. On an afternoon off from preaching and traveling, Wilford and Brother Cyrus Sterrett went with their wives for a visit to the shore. Wilford writes that they
Jun 8, 2021
by Howard Collett
1840 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR WILFORD’S MISSION AMONG THE UNITED BRETHREN “The ministers of the Church of England sent three church clerks to see what I was doing,” said Wilford Woodruff, “and I baptized them.” This is only one of the remarkable stories of Wilford Woodruff on his mission to England. Among those who heard the message of the restored gospel in 1840, one thousand eight hundred were baptized, one-third of them members of the United Brethren chur ...
Jun 7, 2021
Insight to Come Follow Me - D&C 71-75 IN 1846, WILFORD WAS ALMOST KILLED BY A FALLING TREE The accident broke his sternum and three ribs, and also caused severe internal injuries. It was only one of more than two dozen incidents that threatened his life. A list of these incidents follows, humbling indeed to know what an apostle endured. A prominent participant in many defining events of early Church history, Wilford became familiar with clouds of adversity that eventuall ...
May 31, 2021
The development of temple doctrine in the nineteenth century can be traced through the life of one man: Wilford Woodruff. Indeed, his is the only life that spans the period from the introduction of temple ordinances through Joseph Smith in the 1830s to the revelations in 1890s that changed the focus of temple work to eternal families, as God intended.
May 5, 2021
by Diane LeFrandt Nelson
Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that publishes Wilford Woodruff's documents on the open-access website wilfordwoodruffpapers.org, has released the first transcribed documents available online, representing 1,500 pages of more than 60,000 pages of the cataloged collection to be transcribed and made available to the public over the next 10 years. "We are excited to offer this expansive free resource to the public," said Jennifer Mackley, Wilford Woodruff Papers Fo ...
Insight to Come Follow Me – Doctrine and Covenants 49-50Gifts of the SpiritLike all great teachers, Wilford Woodruff documented in his journals both a principle and an application relevant to “that which is of God is light” (Doctrine and Covenants 50:24). One such instance was in 1848, where Wilford records his experience of listening to the revelations of the Holy Ghost, a gift of the spirit. Following the epic pioneer journey to the Salt Lake Valley, Wilford Woodruff was assigned to take ...
Apr 20, 2021
by Steven C. Harper
No one wants to be a document editor when they grow up. At least I didn’t. What does a document editor do all day anyway–fix typos? Then when I was fourteen, historical documents got exciting.
Mar 22, 2021
by Donald W. Parry, Jordan Woodruff Clements
When Orson Pratt died in 1881, John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff were the only two apostles remaining who had been called before the death of Joseph Smith in 1844. All the others had been released, died, or left the church. When John Taylor died in 1887, Wilford served for another 11 years and continued recording his daily history of the Restoration until his death in 1898.
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