Daybook (9 May - 9 July 1838)
15 spent the day at Fathers house in com-
pany with Mother, Eunice, & c.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
June 15, 1838 ~ Friday
15. Spent the day at Fathers house. I receieved I letter from Elder Ball in the city of N Y. It contained
an important extract of a letter from Elder Thomas B. Marsh in the city far west directed to Elders O. & P. P.
Pratt in the city of N Y. It contained glorious news from the land of Zion It indicated such prosperity as looked for
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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
579 mentions
Family
Ball, Joseph T.
21 Feb 1804 - 20 Sep 1861
52 mentions
Maine Mission
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1082 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Parley Parker
12 Apr 1807 - 13 May 1857
548 mentions
Apostle
Marsh, Thomas Baldwin
1800-1866
102 mentions
Apostle
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Wilford reads Parley P. Pratt's pamphlet "Mormonism Unveiled."
Joseph Smith explains the need for all living and dead to receive saving ordinances.
Wilford baptizes father Aphek, stepmother Azubah, and half-sister Eunice in Farmington, Connecticut.
Wilford called to serve as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Doctrine and Covenants 118
Wilford present for birth of his first child, Sarah Emma, in Scarborough, Maine.
Wilford returns to his mission in the Fox Islands.
Wilford receives news of his calling as an apostle; and call to go on mission to England with apostles.