6 I arose early this morning quite sore with my labour I went
into the valley for my horses & we could not find them. some
Indians had been camp this morning or rather in the night
& left again & we supposed they had taken a drove of horses
with them so we sent our horsman & drove in all the Horses in the
valley to see how many was gone, but much to our joy we found all
of our horses was safe which increased our confidence in the Ind-
ians that were around us, I had rode about 8 miles without a
saddle which was wors than labour, we however got our teams
together & started for the mountains with 5 teams, & 4 teams
went also for Dr Richards to draw logs for him. I sadled my
horse & took my ax, & went to the timber before them, & before
they arived I cut 5 large fir trees & when the teams came
up the men assisted to cut up the trees & draw them out &
load them, & we laboured exceding hard all day & we drew
home during the day 52 logs great & small, except one load that
we left by the wayside untill morning, this made 77 logs in
two days that we cut & drew home, in two days we got timber
sufficient for two buildings each of us one but I had lab-
oured so hard during the two days I could hardly stand upon
my feet I went to my waggon & flung myself upon my
bed to rest. I had not been on the bed but a short time before
Br Kimball called upon me & informed me that the Twelve
were going soon to the water to be Baptized for the remission
of their sins to set an example to the Church As the[y] would be
called upon on Sunday morning to bye baptized by the Twelve
or all those that wished, we considerd this A duty & privlege as we
come into a glorious valley to locate & build a temple & build up
Zion we felt like renewing our covenant before the Lord and
each other.
We soon repaired to the water & President
Brigham Young went down into the water & Baptized all his
Brethren the Twelve that were with him by burying them in the
water He also confirmed inus in the Church & sealed upon us our
Apostleship & all the keys, powers, & Blessings belonging to that office
Br Heber C. Kimball Baptized & confirmed President Brigham Young
the following are the names of those present on this occasion B. Young
[page covered] [H.] C. Kimball O. Pratt W. Richards W. Woodruff G. A. Smith & A Lyman
distance of the day 20 [miles]
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we considerd this a duty & privlege as we come into a glorious valley to locate & build a temple & build up Zion we felt like renewing our covenant before the Lord and each other. We soon repaired to the water & President Brigham Young went down into the water & baptized all his Brethren the Twelve that were with him by burying them in the water He also confirmed us in the Church & sealed upon us our apostleship & all the keys, powers, & blessings belonging to that office Br Heber C. Kimball baptized & confirmed President Brigham Young the following are the names of those present on this occasion B. Young H. C. Kimball O. Pratt W. Richards W. Woodruff G. A. Smith & A Lyman
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