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Day in the Life

Oct 15, 1855

Journal Entry

October 15, 1855 ~ Monday

Oct 15th Monday night P. P. Pratt W. Woodruff G. A. Smith
& Erastus Snow of the Twelve & others met at the House of
P. P. Pratts to organize the Territory of Utah into missionary
districts & appoints missionaries to the various fields
of Labour the following are ^is^ the division of the Territory
in 6 districts Utah Co 1: Juab Sanpete, & Millard Co[un]ties
Ut 2nd. Iron & Washington Co 3. Davis Co 4. Webber Co 5.
Salt Lake & Tooele Co. the 6th District & Missionaries appointed
to Each district. all the procedings are published in the
Deseret News of Oct 17th vol 5 No 32.

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Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
641 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1376 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Pratt, Parley Parker
12 Apr 1807 - 13 May 1857
524 mentions
Apostle

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After retireing to bed I prayed to the Lord to show me what we should teach the People and I received for answer Let my servants obtain the Holy Ghost & keep my spirit with them & that will instruct them what to teach the people continually & instruct the people to keep my spirit with them & they will be enabled to understand the word of the Lord when it is taught them
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
On the in the evening Parley P. Pratt Wilford Woodruff George A Smith and Erastus Snow of the Twelve and also Joseph Young ^Lorenzo D Young H. S. Eldridge and Jacob Gates,^ met at the house of Parley P. Pratt to organize the Territory of Utah into missionary Districts and to appoint the missionaries to their various fields of labour. The following were the divisions of the Territory: Six Divisions: Utah County 1st Juab Sanpete and Millard Countyies 2nd Iron and Washington Counties 3rd Davis Co 4th Weber County 5th Salt Lake and Tooele Counties the 6th District

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Oct 15, 1855