Steve Evans

STEVE EVANS {[email protected]}, an attorney living in Wisconsin, is a founder of the Mormon group blog By Common Consent.

Dear Diary: Joseph F. Smith’s Mission Journals | Nathaniel R. Ricks, ed., “My Candid Opinion”: The Sandwich Island Diaries of Joseph F. Smith, 1856–1857

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 2

Many examples of missionary journals are available from early days of the Church. (See, for example, the diaries collected in Brigham Young University’s online archive collection http://lib.byu.edu/digital/mmd/). In reading through them, one finds that they…