Ch. 10 p.80-83 Memoirs of President Joseph Smith lll The Young Missionary

This episode details Joseph Smith lll being impressed to take some boots with him on a journey to a conference of the Reorganised Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and of his travelling with a Brother Shippy whom met him while he was out fishing for food for his sustenance. Related i an experience of staying at a Christian families home the night for shelter but not being warmly welcomed because of their worry that their church would be unhappy with them, they were previously friends with Brother Shippey who chose to use prayer over breakfast to ask for their hearts to be softened, Joseph Smith lll comments that he had never heard a prayer used this way. The boots came into use when a brother said he couldnt attend as his boots were so destroyed so Joseph Smith lll handed his boots over. Joseph says this was the times he realised he had been given spiritual guidance and said that he began recognising it clearly from then on, that he had been alerted over time but hadnt paid much attention till now.