30 Sunday I rode to Br John Benbow's on the prairie 6 miles from Nauvoo & preached at his house& spent the night this was the first time I had been to his house since my returne to Nauvoo I spent the time vary plesantly while there his farm looked almost like the garden of Eden I never had seen more work done in one year on a prairie farm than on his he had surrounded it & crossed it with heavy ditches & planted thorn hedges his dwelling, barns, sheds, garden yards, orchards, &c were all beautifully aranged it much resembled some of the fairms of old England will be a plesant retreat for a summers ride from Nauvoo the little Neighbourhood now consists of five families from England all well united excepting Wm Benbow who has denyed the faith & is a family by himself I spent the evening about conversing with the Brethren 6 miles