Letter to Emma Smith Woodruff, 10 February 1877
St George Temple
Dear Emma
I am getting quite Anxious to know
what is the matter with you, and the family that I
can hear nothing from any of you now for about
three weeks I watch the mails carefully but no
letter come, I wrote you a laong family letter in
answer to your last Jan 12 making one month into 2
2 days, I answered it Jan 25 which is ownly two weeks
since I wrote that letter, but I feel anxius to know if
you recieved ^it^ for I do not want such letters to fall
into the hands of ocrthers I wrote you another letter
a week ago. I am well and gaining flesh evry day
I weigh almost 160 lbs about 25 lb more than I did
when I came home, so of course I must feel somewhat
well. We are now full of work in the Temple companies are
increaseing daily president Young was with us yesterday but had
hard work to walke up & down stars I have to preside
over the Temple and all the Endowments which places sone care
upon me I change my clothing twice a day when I go in
and when I go out I wear nothing inside the Temple
while officiating in the ordinances of the priesthood that I
wear a white Evry thing is white that I wear we are going
about 100 their Endowments daily, but mostly for the
dead Sister Church works in the Temple in the womens
Department, with other sisters I think I told you
that I had changed my boarding place to Bishop
