Isaac was a spiritual man. He related a heavenly experience that he had when he was in his late twenties or early thirties and living in Emery County, Utah. He and his older boys were hauling timber to help build up Huntington, when he suffered a severe pain in his right side. He prepared food for the boys and they retired. Sometime during the night he felt his spirit leave his body. Isaac looked down and could see his own body and the boys lying in the bed. He stood about tree feet above them, wondering where he was supposed to go and what to do. He didn't remember anything more until he want through a gate and some immortal being looked up his record and said, "We know him" Then, turning to another man, he asked him to take Brother Black those his relatives, which he did. Brother Black saw his mother and they greeted each other with joy. While they were talking, someone else came up and said, "You come and go with me. You must go back; your work on earth is not finished." He felt so regretful about leaving he wept, but and angel said, don't feel badly; at the age of 52, 62 or 72 (Isaac could not remember which age the angel said) you will come back and your work will be finished. Your family is too young and they need you." When Brother Black's spirit returned to his body, he saw it and it was cold as he entered it again.
From then on he spent his life working in the church, doing everything he could do to complete his mission on earth so he could return to the beautiful conditions and scenes of his heavenly experience. On October 25, 1931, at the age of 71 years and 10 months, he had a heart attack and died, saying he knew it was the time he was to go.
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He was not a good father to the children he had with his second wife (Elvina Hansina Olsen). He basically refused to support his second wife or the children they had.
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