Brewster had been only 10 years old when rumors of his gift of prophecy began to circulate, and at first, the mainstream Mormon elders believed he was a genuine seer.
At any rate, Phoebe soon felt that, if not the profound insight of a seer, yet a more than feminine delicacy of appreciation, was making her heart the subject of its regard.
Altogether, those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds numbered 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. The gatekeepers had been assigned to their positions of trust by David and Samuel the seer.