Church Membership at end of year: 25,980
New Converts : 2,416
Percent Change from previous year: 10.25% (1)
-- Dec 31, 1843
The endowed quorum meets for prayer and the sacrament. (2)
-- During December 1843
[Heber C. Kimball] Receives fullness of priesthood ordinance or second anointing. (3)
-- During Dec. 1843
[Joseph Smith] Prophet places Brigham Young in charge of overseeing temple ordinance meetings in his absence. (4)
-- During 1843 Dec
William Henry Sagers marries his first plural wife, Phoebe Madison. (2)
-- winter of 1843
Robert D Foster: Joined dissident Mormons in Nauvoo during winter of 1843-44. (5)
-- During 1843
Amasa Mason Lyman: Mission with family to Alquina, Fayette County, Indiana, 1843-44. (5)
Amos Davis: Traveled to Philadelphia April-September 1843. (5)
[Black History] Apostles Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt and John Page restrict Elijah Abel-s missionary work to his own people. There is no indication from the documentation of this meeting that any of these three Apostles remark upon there being something wrong with Abel-s holding the Priesthood. (6)
[Black History] Elijah Abel serves another mission. (6)
[Black History] Sometime in the Nauvoo era, Elijah Abel participates in at least two baptisms for the dead. (6)
Brigham Young: Mission to eastern states to collect funds for Nauvoo House and Temple July-September 1843. One child: Oscar Brigham. (5)
-- During 1843-1915
[Catholic Church in Utah] In 1873 Archbishop Joseph S. Alemany of San Francisco entrusted the approximately 800 Catholics among Utah's 87,000 inhabitants to Father Lawrence Scanlan (1843-1915). (7)
-- During 1843
[Catholic Church in Utah] The cross etched in stone by Kit Carson in 1843 can still be seen on Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake. (7)
Charles Coulson Rich: Mission to Ottawa, Illinois, April-June 1843. (5)
[Chief Wakara] One observer described Wakara in 1843 as the "principal ruling chief...ow [ing] his position to great wealth. He is a good trader, trafficking with the whites and reselling goods to such as his nation are less skillful in striking a bargain." Wakara was becoming the leader of larger numbers of people as several bands coalesced with the invasion of the Europeans. This larger band came to be known as the Tumpanawach. (8)
[Civil War] Many Mormons in Utah viewed the events in the east as fulfillment of statements made by their prophet/founder Joseph Smith nearly thirty years earlier: "Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina." In a later statement made in 1843, Smith added: "The commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina. It may probably arise through the slave question." (9)
[Deseret] (10)
[Deseret] John C. Fremont and Kit Carson explore the Great Basin. (10)
[Deseret] Miles Goodyear builds Fort Buenaventura. (10)
Footnotes:
1 - Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
2 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
3 - Kimball, Stanley B. (editor), On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1987, http://bit.ly/heberckimball
4 - Highlights in the Prophet's Life, Ensign, June 1994
5 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
6 - Crapo, Richley, Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the LDS Priesthood, http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/node/62
7 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Catholic Church in Utah, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/c/CATHOLIC.html
8 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Chief Wakara, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/w/WAKARA.html
9 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Civil War, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/c/CIVILWAR.html
10 - History to Go, Trappers, Traders and Explorers, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html
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