Feb I spent the day painting & drawing my
arches in the front of my house & geting my roof
on
~ Friday
2nd I spent the day to work on my house
I met with the quorum for Prayer &c at
Elders Youngs[FIGURE] W W P [FIGURE] S P Br & Sister Wm. W. Phelps
attended with us. Br Phelps spoke concerning his
appointment as a Lawyier in Israel ^Brother &
Si[s]ter Wm W Phelps Received their 2nd Anointing & sealing^
~ Saturday
Feb 3rd 1844 I walked into President Joseph
Smithstore or office over the store & spent a few
moments in conversing with Elders W Richards
And Wm W. Phelps & President Joseph Smith
Smith came into the room & said he had a dream
& related it to us which was as follows
[FIGURE] I was standing on a peninsula in the midst
of a vast body of water whare their appears
to be a large harbor or a peer built out for boats
to come into. I was surrounded by my friends
& while looking at this harbor I saw a steem
boat approaching the harbour. their was bridges
on the peer for persons to cross & there
came up a wind & drove the steem boat
under one of the bridges & upset it. I run
up to the boat expecteing the persons would all
drowne And wishing to do sumthing to assist
them I put my hand against the side of the
boat & with one surge I shoved it under the bridge
& righ[t]ed it up & then told them to take care of
themselves but it was not long before I saw
them starting out into the channel or main body
of the water again. the storms were raging &
the waters rough I said to my friensds that if
they did not understand the signs of the times
& the spirit of prophecy they would be
~ Thursday
Feb I spent the day painting & drawing my
arches in the front of my house & geting my roof
on
~ Friday
2d I spent the day to work on my house.
FIGURES I met with the quorum for Prayer &c at
Elders Youngs. FIGURES Br & Sister Wm. W. Phelps
attended with us. Br Phelps spoke Concerning his
appointment as a Lawyier in Israel. Brother &
Siter Wm W Phelps Received their 2nd Anointing & sealing
~ Saturday
Feb 3d 1844 I walked into President Joseph
Smith store or office over the store & spent a few
moments in conversing with Elders W Richards
A\and Wm W. Phelps & President Joseph Smith.
Smith came into the room & said he had a dream
& related it to us which was as follows.
[FIGURE] I was standing on a peninsula in the midst
of a vast body of water whare their appears
to be a large harbor or a peer built out for boats
to come into. I was surrounded by my friends
& while looking at this harbor I saw a Steem
boat approaching the harbour, their was bridges
on the peer for persons to cross & there
came up a wind & drove the steem boat
under one of the bridges & upset it. I run
up to the boat expecting the persons would all
drowne and wishing to do sumthing to assist
them. I put my hand against the side of the
boat & with one surge I shoved it under the bridge
& righted it up & then told them to take care of
themselves. But it was not long before I saw
them starting out into the channel or main body
of the water again. The storms were raging &
the waters rough. I said to my friends that if
they did not understand the signs of the times
& the spirit of Prophecy they would be
"Journal (January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844)," February 1, 1844 - February 3, 1844, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 1, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/JWy