He also said I should have power to bring my father and his family into the Church. This was fulfilled when I visited them during my mission to the Fox Islands, as previously related.
My father gathered to Salt Lake City with the Saints, and he died there, aged 83 years.
The Patriarch also said that I should be wrapt in the visions of heaven, and an angel of God should teach me many things. This was literally fulfilled.
Again, he told me I should be delivered from my enemies (who would seek my destruction) by the mighty power of God and the administrations of angels. This was marvelously fulfilled while in the city of London in 1840. Brothers Heber C. Kimball, Geo. A. Smith and I went to London together in the winter of 1840, being the first Elders who had attempted to establish the gospel in that great and mighty city.
As soon as we commenced we found the devil was manifest; the evil spirits gathered for our destruction, and at times they had great power.
They would destroy all the Saints if they were not restrained by the power of God.
Brother Smith and myself, were together, and had retired to our rest, each occupying a cot, and but three feet apart.
We had only just lain down, when it seemed as if a legion of devils made war upon us, to destroy us, and we were struggling for our lives in the midst of this warfare of evil spirits until we were nearly choked to death.
I began to pray the best that I could in the midst of this struggle and asked the Father in the name of Jesus Christ to spare our lives.
While thus praying three personages entered the room, clothed in white and encircled with light.