1838 - Emma Smith visits her husband, the Prophet Joseph Smith, in Liberty Jail in Missouri. She spends two days with him confined in the jail.
1839 - The first missionaries, Alexander Wright and Samuel Mulliner, arrive in Scotland and begin to preach the gospel.
1840 - The Prophet Joseph Smith was called upon by the Nauvoo High Council to decide the case against Robert D. Foster. The Prophet Joseph's decision acquitted him. (History of the Church, 4:250) In 1844, Dr. Foster would become one of the apostates involved with the Nauvoo Expositor.
1842 - Elder Lorenzo D. Barnes dies at Bradford, England. He is the first missionary to die while serving a foreign mission. Also, the brethren who had been in Springfield, Illinois, to meet with the governor and state supreme court, arrived back in Nauvoo and reported to the Prophet Joseph and delivered the letters requesting the Prophet appear before the supreme court to receive his habeas corpus.
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