A conference of High Priests met in Kirtland …[to decide] how the French farm should be disposed of. The council could not agree who should take the charge of it, but all agreed to enquire of the Lord. Accordin[g]ly we received a revelation which decided that Broth N. K. Whitney should take the charge thereof and also that brother John Johnson be admitted as a member of the United Firm. Accordingly he was ordained unto the High Priesthood and admitted.