The [First] presidency, the 12 [apostles], the seventies, the high councils, the Bishops and their entire [Aaronic Priesthood] quorums, the Elders, and all the official members in this [Kirtland] stake of Zion amounting to about 300 met in the [Kirtland] temple of the Lord. . . . [M]essengers were dispatched for bread and wine. . . . [T]he bread & wine was then brought in, and I [Joseph Smith] observed that we had fasted all the day, and lest we faint; as the Saviour did [with the Nephites at Bountiful] so shall we do on this occasion, we [the First Presidency] shall bless the bread and give it to the 12 [apostles] and they to the multitude, after which we shall bless the wine and do likewise.