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Did You Sometimes Have To Travel In Cold Weather?

Tuesday, March 3, 1868.—We shall leave today. It is bitterly cold. Water froze solid in our bedrooms. We expect to suffer, wrap up as best we may. The people at St. Charles [Michigan] expected us to hold meetings with them. Here was the question—What is duty? We feel so anxious to do all the good we can. We are worn, yet are willing to labor on if God will give strength. LASW 113.1

This is the most severe of all—people begging for meetings. 2 LASW 113.2

We prepared to go five miles over a bad road. I rode in much fear, for it was very dark and we could not see how to shun the mudholes, and we came near being overturned. The meeting was profitable to the little church in Allegan [Michigan]. LASW 113.3

We traveled over rough and muddy roads, and while I chose to walk two or three miles over rough logways, I felt grateful to God for the health and strength. He had given me since I had left my home. Our meetings in Wright [Michigan] were blessed of God. 3 LASW 113.4

November 7, 1867.—We had no idea it was going to be so cold when we started, but heavy black clouds came up and we had quite a little flurry of partial snow and hail, all soft, about as large as a pea. Then it became so very cold we suffered in traveling fifteen miles. Last night was a very bitterly cold night. 4 LASW 113.5