November 24, 1835
Joseph performed the marriage ceremony of Newel Knight and Lydia Goldthwaite, and Emma was also in attendance.
Ecclesiastical Duties
November 27, 1835
Joseph Smith and his scribe Warren Parrish healed each other, through the laying on of hands, of severe colds.
December 3, 1835
Joseph Smith and his wife, Emma, visited at Thomas Carrico's, where Joseph talked on matrimony and married Warren Parrish to Martha H. Raymond.
December 13, 1835
Joseph Smith officiated in the marriages of Ebenezer Robinson to Angeline Works and Edwin Webb to Eliza Ann McWhithy.
December 29, 1835
Joseph Smith preached for three hours to a large crowd at the Kirtland school, some of whom were Presbyterians.
January 4, 1836
In the translating room of the Kirtland Temple, Joseph Smith met with and organized a school for the study of the Hebrew language.
January 8, 1836
Joseph Smith made rapid progress at the Hebrew school. The plastering and hard-finishing of the outside of the Kirtland Temple was finished.
January 12, 1836
Joseph Smith called on the First Presidency in the morning and met with Russell Weaver, a Unitarian preacher, in the afternoon.
January 13, 1836
Joseph Smith presided over a meeting with Church leaders from Kirtland and Clay County, Missouri. The brethren sang William W. Phelps's hymn "Adam-ondi-Ahman," and new members of various councils were called and ordained in preparation for the coming solemn assembly.
January 14, 1836
Joseph Smith met with a council to draft the rules and regulations for the Kirtland Temple in preparation for its completion. He then performed two marriages in the evening.
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