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Circa December 22, 1841

On or around December 22, 1841, the Prophet Joseph Smith received two revelations admonishing two men to serve missions. The first was directed to Amos Fuller, who sought “to know the will of the Lord concerning him.”[1] It was not uncommon for Saints who knew the Prophet personally to ask him directly for a revelation concerning their lives and callings,[2] and Fuller was no exception. A faithful member, Fuller had served a previous mission to New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Ohio from 1837 to 1838.[3] After that mission, he moved to Nashville, (later known as Galland) Iowa Territory.[4] Interestingly, the revelation Joseph received for Fuller in December 1841 stipulated that the Holy Spirit would guide the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to know where to send him on a mission. On January 17, 1842, Joseph’s journal notes that the Twelve met together and decided that Fuller should serve a mission to Chicago in answer to this revelation.[5]

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Verily, thus saith the Lord unto my servants the Twelve—let them appoint unto my servant Amos Fuller a mission to preach my gospel unto the children of men as it shall be manifested unto them by my Holy Spirit. Amen.

Notes

[1] JSP, D9:42.

[2] Compare Richard Lyman Bushman, “Joseph Smith and His Visions,” in The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism, ed. Terryl L. Givens and Philip L. Barlow (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 116–17.

[3] Amos B. Fuller, Diary, 1837–1838, MS 4522, CHL.

[4] JSP, D9:467.

[5] JSP, J2:20–21.