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very far it would be, were it not for the Bishop's fine team. My mother took charge, and the young family eventually continued on to their destination in Star Valley."

^{- Joseph Smith Phelps, Wilford's "nephew" whose mother Maggie had married Wilford's cousin Joseph M. Phelps. 1960.}

"Father and Mother's place was the stopover for General Authorities visiting the Bear Lake as well as the Star Valley Stakes.  Many times as a small boy, I went to sleep in one bed and awoke in another, some of the Brethren having come to stay over for the night."

^{- LeGrand Clark, 1964.}

"Father and I were trying to get through an overflowing crowd and enter the Tabernacle at a General Conference Priesthood Meeting. He was over ninety by this time. Hopes of getting in were quite slim. Outside the door where the General Authorities enter, Elder Clifford E. Young recognized Father and instructed the usher at the door, 'Let this man in; he saved my life when I was a young man.'  Later, when asked what the Assistant to the Twelve had been referring to, my Father replied that Elder Young and his father had attended a Bear Lake Conference many years previously. They became lost in a snowstorm, and their team, completely fatigued, refused to go farther.  The Youngs had a lantern in their sleigh to keep warm. They held this light high and waved it in the night.  Father saw their light from a great distance. He walked through the snow with a team of horses to the stranded party, and the group all returned to safety."

^{- Royal D. Clark, fourth child of Wilford and Pamelia, 1964.}

His testimony that the gospel of Jesus Christ was true was based upon a lifetime of service to the Church of that gospel. Of his pleasant recollections, these were shared with him: