sentences:  Coltrin was ordained an elder of the church on January 21, 1831, by church historian John Whitmer (one of the Eight Witnesses to the golden plates).Only weeks later, Coltrin was assigned to go to Missouri as a church missionary with Levi W. Hancock (Solomon's brother, who, in addition to being a future witness of the Book of Commandments, would be a fellow President of the Seventy).During travel through Winchester, Indiana, the two elders baptized "upwards of a hundred people".