Wilford Woodruff's reflections: 1850, 1851 and 1856

Events:

• 1851 January 6 -- Attends first of twenty-one sessions of territorial legislature
• 1851 February 3 -- Weekly meetings of Twelve begin; given charge of official Record of the Twelve Apostles
• 1851 April 23 -- Departs with Brigham Young party on tour of central and southern Utah; visits Utah Valley, meets Chief Walker
• 1851 November 11 -- "University of Deseret" opened, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 1852 January 5 -- Begins meeting with legislature
• 1852 March 6 -- Legislature adjourns
• 1852 March 28 -- Marriage to Mary Giles Meeks Webster (born 1804)
• 1852 April 23 -- Leaves with Brigham Young on another tour of central and southern Utah
• 1852 August 29 -- Public announcement of Plural Marriage made
• 1852 December 21 -- Appointed clerk and historian of twelve apostles
• 1853? -- Marriage to Clarissa Henrietta Hardy (born 1835?)  divorced in 1853?
• 1853 February 14 -- Attends dedication of Salt Lake temple site
• 1853 February 21 -- Supervises labor on construction of Salt Lake temple
• 1853 March 13 -- Marriage to Emma Smoot Smith (born 1838).
• 1853 March 13 -- Marriage to Sarah Brown (born 1834)
• 1854 May 3 -- Leaves with Brigham Young for southern Utah
• 1854 December 11 -- Begins meeting with legislature
• 1855 -- Fast day inaugurated as first Thursday of each month.
• 1855 January 19 -- Legislature adjourns
• 1855 February 3 -- Elected president of the Universal Scientific Society
• 1855 April 25 -- Attends first meeting of Deseret Theological Society
• 1855 May 5 -- Attends dedication of Endowment House
• 1855 May 9-27 -- Accompanies Brigham Young to southern Utah
• 1855 December 10 -- Legislature meets in Fillmore
• 1856-1857 -- "Mormon Reformation."

Reflections:

... the fulfillment of the word of God & the preperation for the coming of the son of Man.It has been A year of Blessings upon Zion & her Children. The Lord hath preserved my life to lead one of the camps of Israel out of the midst of the Gentiles to mingle with their Brethren in Zion now building up Cities in the rich vallies of the mountains of Israel. ...

- The gathering of the people with Hand Carts
- the commencement of the refermation
- the Death of J[edediah] M. Grant,
- the great exertion to save the people in the snows of the mountains.

But the following year I believe will be greater Still both with the world & Zion. I pray that the spirit of God will attend me & my brethren in the Priesthood that we may be saved from all evil & the power of the Devil and have power to build up the kingdom of God on the Earth.

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