Patriarch Samuel W. Richards' Visionary Experience of the Future

“My prayer was satisfactorily answered so that I continued with the company, while it was completing the outfit for the expedition. On retiring I soon fell asleep; a personage appeared by my bedside to inform me of the future, and he opened up to me the most wonderful vision or dream of my life. Under his direction I found myself in Salt Lake valley; from there I went in a southernly direction to southern California, passing a number of sentinels on the way to whom I had to give a password; and this I had to get by inspiration as I approached the guard, This I did successfully, passing some six or seven on the journey south, exploring the mountains. From there, I went south into Mexico, and from there took a northeast course and arrived in Jackson county, Missouri, where I stopped and helped build the temple which is to be reared there. I saw it completed, and then went out to a retired place and laid my body down, and my spirit took its flight over this whole continent to the east, west, south and north, then again to my body, and I saw this whole continent as the Garden of Eden, restored to its condition of purity as it was before sin was known upon it, and as it will be when covered with towns, cities and villages, inhabited by resurrected beings, enjoying immortality and eternal lives.”

— Samuel W. Richards, The Young Woman's Journal