Think how precious it must have been in the sight of the Lord." "Well, the Lord knows we're devoted now, so we'll wait till it fairs up.
We'll have Zion built in good time and a good gospel fence built around it, elk-high and bull-tight, like we used to say in Missouri.

But it's a long ways over yender, and while I ain't ever had any revelations myself, I'm pretty sure the Lord means to have me toler'bly well fed, and my back kept bone-dry on the way.

And we got to have fat horses and fat cattle, not these bony critters with no juice in 'em.

Did you hear what Brother Heber got off the other day?
He butchered a beef and was sawing it up when Brother Brigham passed by.

'Looks hard, Brother Heber,' says Brother Brigham.