Leaves From My Journal ...: Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Leaves From My Journal ...: Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints
                                            
                            BY Wilford Woodruff
                            
                                12 Dec, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The first day of May, 1834, was appointed for the Camp of Zion to start from Kirtland to go up to Missouri for the redemption of their brethren. Only a small portion of the Camp was ready. The Prophet told those who were ready, to go to New Portage a
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                                                The first day of May, 1834, was appointed for the Camp of Zion to start from Kirtland to go up to Missouri for the redemption of their brethren. Only a small portion of the Camp was ready. The Prophet told those who were ready, to go to New Portage and wait for the remainder. I left, in company with about twenty men, with the baggage wagons. At night we pitched our tents. I went to the top of the hill and looked down upon the camp of Israel. I knelt upon the ground and prayed. I rejoiced and praised the Lord that I had lived to see some of the tents of Israel pitched, and a company gathered by the commandment of God to go up and help redeem Zion. Less