“While in Michigan we visited Tyrone, Jackson, Sylvan, Bedford, and Vergennes. My husband in the strength of God endured the journey and his labor well. Only once did his strength entirely fail him. He was unable to preach at Bedford. He went to the place of meeting, and stood up in the desk to preach, but became faint and was obliged to sit down. He asked Elder J. N. Loughborough to take the subject where he had left it, and finish the discourse. Then he went out of the house into the open air, and lay upon the green grass until he had somewhat recovered, when Brother Kelsey let him take his horse, and he rode alone one mile and a half to Brother Brooks’s. {LS 149.4}

“Da vi var i Michigan besøgte vi Tyrone, Jackson, Sylvan, Bedford, og Vergennes. Min mand udholdt rejsen og sit arbejde godt i Guds styrke. Kun en gang svigtede hans styrke ham helt. Han var ude af stand til at tale i Bedford. Han kom til mødestedet, og stillede sig op på talersolen for at tale, men blev svag og var nød til at sidde ned. Han bad ældre J. N. Loughborough om at tage emnet, hvor han havde forladt det, og afslutte prædiknen. Så gik han ud af huset i den friske luft, og lagde sig på det grønne græs, indtil han havde kommet sig noget, medens bror Kelsey lader ham tage til sin hest, og han red toenhalv kilometer ud til bror Brooks’s.