Commenting on a series of events during June 1831:
It was my youngest child that was
distressingly sick, at which time Joseph came to my house and I told him that I
had faith that the babe might be healed. He then spoke in the name of the Lord
that it should be according to my faith. The child was healed immediately. The
same day there was one of our sisters healed from blindness by his
instrumentality. I, also, saw another display of healing, how on the 6th of
June, in Kirkland, which took place by the instrumentality of my natural
brother Simeon Carter. She had the day before fallen from a wagon on the way to
the meeting. She to every appearance was mortally bruised and she was not
expected to live but a very short time. She was so badly bruised that she told
me that she could not move even one of her toes and she was in great pain. I
conversed with her and told her that she need have any more pain. I spoke to my
brother Simeon and told her that he was one that was endowed with power from on
high and that she might be healed if she had faith. After this, Brother Simeon
conversed with her and after he conversed with her awhile he took her by the
hand and said: "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to rise up and
walk" and she arose and walked from room to room on Friday. Before this
was that memorable day when God first gave the fulness of the high priesthood
to the elders of the Church of Christ. (Jared
Carter journal, 1831 January-1833 January 20, pp. 3-4)
