<Letter 1> Kirtland Nov 27th 1832

Brother Wm <W> Phelps I say brother because I feel so from  the heart and altho it is not long since I wrote a  letter unto you yet I feel as tho<ugh> you would excuse  me for writing this as I have many things which  I wish to communicate some things which I will  mention in this letter which are laying <great> with weight  upon my mind I inform you I am well and family  God grant that you may enjoy the same and  yours and all the brethren and sisters who remember  to enquire afte[r] the commandments of the Lord  and the welfare of Zion and such a being as me  and while I dictate this letter I fancy to myself  that you are saying or thinking something simmiler  to these words my God great and mighty art thou  therefore shew unto thy servant what shall becom[e] of all  these who are assaying to come up unto Zion in order  to keep the commandments of God and yet receive  not there inher[i]tance by consecration by order or deed  from the bishop the man that God has appointed  in a legal way agreeable to the law given to organize  and regulate the church and all the affairs of the  same; Bro Wm in the love of God having the  most implicit confidence in you as a man of  God having obtained this confidence by a vision  of heaven therefore I will procede to unfold to you some  of the feelings of my heart and procede to answer  the questions[.] firstly, it is the duty of the lord[s]  clerk whom he has appointed to keep a hystory  and a general church receord of all things that  transpire in Zion and of all those who consecrate  properties and receive inhertances legally from the  bishop and also there manner of life and the faith  and works and also of all the apostates who apostatize  after receiving ther inher[i]tances in that day shall  not find an inheritance among the saints of the [p. 1]