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Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 15, 1877 ~ Monday
15 we set apart 9 Missionaries to Mexico & ordained 7 to the
Office of seventies WW Ordained 3, & set apart 3. assisted in the
rest Brigham Young jr & Myself wrote out a part of the ceremony
of the Endowment we rode out in the afternoon got the Horses dow[n]
in a mud hole got 3 quails & come home I spent the Evening
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^ with President Young. He told me their was No Necessity of dressing in the Temple Clothing while giving the second Anointing any more than in administering the first Anointing or Ordaining He
also said that we should use the Bible in the garden & Bible & Book
of Mormon in the Telestial room and add the Covenants to it in the
Terrestial Room.
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3427 mentions
Apostle, Family
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
578 mentions
Apostle
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First baptism for the dead administered in St. George Temple font.
First proxy endowments administered in this dispensation in St. George Temple.
First proxy sealings and first sealings and endowments for the living in St. George Temple.
Brigham Young asks Wilford and others to write out the temple ceremonies.
Wilford administers second anointing to the first couple in the St. George Temple.
Wilford administers second anointing by proxy for the first time in the St. George Temple.
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.
Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th President of 38 United States.
Wilford sealed to Eudora Lovina Young by her father Brigham Young.