Wilford Woodruff records meeting with a prayer circle in 1856.
Wilford Woodruff, Journal entry for April 13, 1856, Journal (January 1, 1854 – December 31, 1859), Wilford Woodruff Papers
I met in the Prayer circle in the evening And the following named persons received their blessings & was set apart for their Missions. Elders O. Pratt G A Smith, E. T. Benson Erastus Snow, Truman O. Angel & Phineas Young, W Woodruff wrote them all from memery 3 days afterwards & had them copied into the Historians Book of Events. G A. Smiths Blessing was written by his dictation By T. Bullock the remainder W. Woodruff wrote