The Letters of Joseph Smith

Yesterday I learned once more the value of writing. The priesthood lesson was about Joseph Smith's letters to his wife Emma.
Those letters were not written having in mind any other audience but Emma, still they disclose the mind, feelings and experience of the prophet.
Regardless the circumstances in which they were written, they survived the pass of time. I wondered what it had happened if the prophet had lived his life continuously at home. He had never written such letters and we had not had our priesthood lesson about his letters obviously, but not only that, we had missed to learn from those letters some aspects of the life of the prophet that today they reveal.
There is a magic in writing that brings the writer back to present.
There is a power in writing that no intelligent man can deny.