When Joseph returned to Ohio in May 1832, he left three hundred converts in Missouri. This number doubled in a single year. The colony was poor and provisions were scarce. “Our food,” wrote Parley Pratt in his autobiography, “consisted of beef and a little bread made of corn, which had been grated into coarse meal by rubbing the ears on a tin grater.” But such privation heightened the sense of kinship and oneness with God. “There was a spirit of peace and union and love and goodwill manifested in this little Church in the wilderness, the memory of which will be ever dear to my heart,” Pratt
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