. . . I followed on, crossed the Missouri river on the 10th of June. Apostle E. T. Benson there met us and we organized a company of fifty waagons for crossing the Plains[.] a brother Joseph Outhouse was chosen captain[.] the company subdivided into tens with a captain of each ten. I was chosen chaplain, we had prayers each morning and evening, and thus began our journey[.] all went well for a few days when the captain became offended and something, threw up his commission, and declared he would no longer lead, we then agreed that the captains of tens should form a committee to controll the order of travel, and that when they met for consultation the oldest man should preside, in that we traveled about half the distance over the Plains. but as the feed for the teams was not always plentiful it was thought best to travel in several companies[.] therefore each ten formed a travilling company, this was somewhat risky, and had the Indians been hostile might have been serious, however what indians we saw were friendly and every thing passed as comfortable as such a journey could. And without serious sickness or loss we arrived in Great-Salt-Lake City on the sixth day of September.