Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Wilford’s Vision




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Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff said that an angel appeared to him and showed him what?


A)                 The Golden Plates

B)                 Laban’s sword, the Liahona, and the Urim and Thummin

C)                 Additional scripture that we are not yet ready to receive

D)                 Future events


Yesterday’s answer:


(D) He told William if he didn’t go that he would find a worse mission for him


In Kartchner’s journal he said that when he declined to go at first that Elder Lyman said, “Said that if I Refused to go he would cause me to have a worse mission.”

William Decatur Kartchner, “Autobiography,” 35, photocopy of holograph, Archives, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo.


Additional interesting information:

Even though Kartchner had to be persuaded, it’s interesting to note that many didn’t, and that in fact more than had been called showed up at the point of departure in Payson. Again from

Kartchner’s journal:


He noted, “It was seen a Grate many more than was called was moving with us & Prest. B. Young and H. C. Kimball called a meeting at this Place & Heber Preached and Discouraged many from going.”  President Young then declared, “He was sick at the sight of so many of the Saints running off to California.”

Only twenty families were initially called to go, nevertheless 437 individuals departed. Brigham felt many were leaving because of the enticements of the world.


William Decatur Kartchner, “Autobiography,” 35, photocopy of holograph, Archives, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo.

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