Monday the 18th I rode into Far West & called upon John Whitmer one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon who was cut off from the Church some 22 years before he received me very kindly & appeared to be glad to see me I spent 4 or 5 hours with him in conversation he still testified that the Book of Mormon is true & that Joseph Smith was a prophet of the Lord he also said that he believed that the Elders preached the gospl right when the[y] went out into the world & that Brigham Young was carrying out the Doctrine & Sistem which which Joseph Smith taught but he (Whitmer) did not believe in a mans haveing more than one wife & finally he said that he & his Brother David often talked about the affairs of the Church & it had been made known unto them that it was wisdom for them to stay were they were & refered me to the case of the harlot Rahab who hid the spies &c. I invited him to come to Salt Lake City & pay us a visit he said he would not say that he would not come he did not know what he might do I bid him good by with a feeling of sorrow to think that a man who was once a Bright & Shineing light in the Kingdom of God should be so lost to his own interest & the wellfare of his family