Missionary Service and Church Leadership
In August 1832, Smith told Lyman that "the Lord requires your labors in the vineyard.". Lyman agreed to serve a mission for the Church. On 23 August, Lyman was ordained an Elder by Smith and Frederick G. Williams. The following day, he departed with Zerubbabel Snow as a missionary. Lyman served with Snow and William F. Cahoon in the eastern states, preaching as far east as Cabell County, Virginia, in present-day West Virginia. On 11 December 1833, Lyman was ordained a High Priest by Lyman Johnson and Orson Pratt, the same elders who had taught and baptized him in 1832.
Lyman returned to Church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio in May 1835. At a Conference of the Church in June, Lyman was called by Joseph Smith to be a member of the newly organized First Quorum of the Seventy. In 1836, Lyman received the "Kirtland Endowment" in the Latter Day Saints' Kirtland Temple.
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