In the middle of December Zemira moved his family into a new shanty at the northeast corner of the square, and on Christmas day he was sick with a bad cold, and was unable to leave the house but once or twice, also having had an attack of pain in his bowels and side.
By the middle of February 1877, he was well enough to begin assisting the secretary to settle up the business accounts of the United Order. He was appointed one of the appraisers and from this time he served on the appraising committee. For another month he continued to feed the teams until the time he was appointed to fill a Bro. Brown’s place on the executive committee, Bro. Brown having died the day before. But he was released a few days later and appointed to take charge of feeding all the cows and hogs and chickens as well as the teams and stallions. Apparently he had proven very capable and diligent in caring for the animals. He had had much experience handling animals, and undoubtedly enjoyed working with them.
He was still on the appraising committee though, and they began to make an inventory of all the properties of the United Order. He also appraised the property of brethren just joining the United Order, along with his duties of overseeing the feeding of the animals.
In April of that year, he writes, “Bros. John Taylor, Orson Pratt, Erastus Snow and Lorenzo Snow of the Twelve Apostles, Bishop Ward and Nuttall, and others arrived here as missionaries.” During that visit (20th) the settlements in that vicinity were organized into a Stake of Zion, and a High Council was appointed. The Militia was also organized in his District.
He jotted down comments concerning their visit, among which he mentioned: “All of the Twelve Apostles (four) preached principally on the U. Order. Bro. O. Pratt said, there were two great points to become one in Spiritual and in temporal things. We were already tolerably well united in Spiritual things, but we must become united in temporal things. He compared the true Order as it would be with our Order here, that we might see what we lacked, saying we were nearer to it than any other settlement.”
“Bro. Lorenzo Snow said we were nearer the true order here than at his place (Brigham City). We must not however overreach ourselves by undertaking too much, if we have a high mountain to climb we must not attempt to go straight to the top in a given time, but give sufficient time for the weak to get up.”
Journal of Zemira Palmer for dates mentioned
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