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December 31

Written by Barton Golding

1833 - Wilford Woodruff is baptized in an icy stream near Richland, New York. 1836 - The ice was cut in the river and Dr. Willard Richards was baptized in...

December 30

Written by Barton Golding

1839 - The Prophet Joseph left Philadelphia, with Orson Pratt, and traveled to a branch of the Church in Monmouth County, New Jersey, to spend several days with the Saints...

December 29

Written by Barton Golding

1833 - Wilford Woodruff begins recording early Latter-day Saint history in his journal. His journals would record the daily events of his life and the Church for sixty-five years. 1835...

December 28

Written by Barton Golding

1832 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives additional portions of the revelation recorded as Doctrine and Covenants 88 and known as the “Olive Leaf,” which he called “the Lord's message...

December 27

Written by Barton Golding

1832 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives the first part of the revelation known as the “Olive Leaf” and is found in Doctrine and Covenants 88. It commands the Saints...

December 26

Written by Barton Golding

1831 - A council of Elders met to discuss the cases of several members of the Church. Two were cut off due to repeated transgression and promising to reform but...

December 25

Written by Barton Golding

1832 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives the revelation known as Doctrine and Covenants 87 at a time when the brethren were reflecting and reasoning upon slavery in the United...

December 24

Written by Barton Golding

1833 - On Christmas Eve, four elderly families still living in Jackson County, Missouri, who had not left their homes previously because of their older age, where attacked by a...

December 23

Written by Barton Golding

Art William Whitaker 1805 - Joseph Smith, the Prophet of the Lord, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and translator of the Book of Mormon by...