Show ELMERS extracts of a letter better from elder george cannon camion to elders cain and brower MAUI S I 1 L april lih 1851 dear joseph and arieh I 1 take time to address a d a few lines to you in the hope that you will receive it in time to answer this season I 1 arrived with the rest of the brethren at honolulu oahu bahu the capitol of the hawaiian nation ill all in the enjoyment of a tolerable degree of health lie alth dee dec ath we were saon soon scattered upon the different islands two and two this island fell to my lot with brother keeler for a partner we wei e accompanied compa nied by brother bigler brother morris his partner aner having been counselled counseller coun selled by brother ciar to stay and work at honolulu brother B has been ever since upon this island e endeavoring oriff to acquire the language about six W weeks ee 8 after our landing I 1 received a letter from 5 H dark clark to come to honolulu honolu la and stay with him as bro whittle was going home this I 1 complied with though with reluctance as I 1 had become attached to the island and people and had been beela calculating upon it being n the scene of my labors I 1 found bros dixon and farrer at honolulu with the intention of going home also I 1 was a little surprised at first but they had been no more successful than the rest of us among among 4 the whites and therefore thought their miss mission I 1 on filled after a f few ew days bro farrer concluded to stay and return with me to maui as a partner f for or brother bigler brother morris having given up all idea of preaching and brother dark clark with the brethren upon my representing the state of things and the prospects at maui having thought it best for me to return there bro blackwell from hawaii afterwards f ter wards joined the brethren and started home with them and brother dark clark has bag since started for the Marque sas islands via tahiti having tried to get us to accompany him he hav having i received a testimony from the lord that there was corwe no awre bu business sines for him to do there we had no testimony of that kind and cheref therefore oro did not think we ought to leave and if we had left it would have been to have gone home and reported ourselves as we had no authority to go to any other island A short explanation of my reasons for my staying here may not be inappropriate when brother rich selected us for the mission he told us we were to be governed by circumstances when we got to the is islands after our arrival here it was soon apparent to us that our mission would be a fruitless one if we confined ourselves wholly to the whites as religion was an after consideration with them in fact there were not enough of them to justify us all in spending our time with them what were we to doa this was the question we asked ourselves would we escape condemnation to turn around and go home without making an effort after spending time and moans means to get here especially when we considered the council of brother rich bich to act as circumstances dictated and leave a whole nation grovelling gro velling in in ignorance ignorance and darkness for want of the principles of life and salvation which we had in in our possession and had the authority to teach I 1 ter lor one did not think I 1 would be justified either by the lord or by my brethren in pursuing such a course as an elder in israel I 1 considered it my duty to endeavor to relieve them from the yoke voke of priest cHt under which they were e laboring laboi ing do not a pose for a moment that I 1 mean to conde brethren who have gone home not by means placed in the circumstances we hays been I 1 consider it an elders privilege to have revelation to a certain extent for himself the above are my own reasons only and of course do not apply to any one else very good reasons ed news my progress in in act acquiring quiring the language ane natives nat ives say is is very fast I 1 I 1 feel that the lord has blessed blesse me to a great extent the people are many of them anxious to hear their curiosity having been excited by what I 1 have been atle able to tell them my explanations of principles are necessarily very 1 imperfect n for lack of language they are con considerably sider ably under the influence of the missionaries and afraid to do anything in opposition to them and they have acted as a general thing in such a cannop manner as to keep the confidence of the people and the people loan upon upon their judgment considerably we may expect from every appearance a time akimo of difficulty to make a stand here but we rely upon the lord knowing he is fill all powerful atre it reminds me strongly of an inferior brior force attacking a fortress to ill all appearance appearance well fortified but without ammunition to stand a siege I 1 there are we suppose four only of us upon the islands the I 1 last a st le letter ater we had biorn brother hawkins stated that he had nearly done his duty he I 1 thought h 0 ugh we e have written but cannot bear he ar anything th i g f from 10 him and we suppose he be must have started home I 1 have been residing for some time backai back at the other side of the island at a place called wailuku wail uku at the house of a judge of that side of tho the island he be is anxious to know mormonism and has refused to turn me out at the request of the missionaries notwithstanding there is danger of his being out cut off from the church and losing his office I 1 have had several conversa conversations tiong with the missionaries and I 1 hive borne my testimony to them of the truth of the message they have begun to rage finding they cannot support themselves from the scriptures es they have calletto called to their aid allabe all the newspaper newspaper stories they could get many of the other oabe r whites tire are in nowise backward about belying this doctrine some others who do not like the missionaries say they are glad we have come bome the climate of these islands is a delightful one not so hot as to be oppressive nor yet vet cool as to be uncomfortable on the other or windward side sid of the island there is a constant breeze called the trade winds this tempers tempera the heat beat traits fruits of nearly all kinds grow here a and nd th the e island are very productive pota potatoes toe 9 sweet and irish grove grow in great quantities and are shipped to the california market the natives in general are indolent but they dr dreis es very well and cleanly in their persons among them you will find men of intelligence and education they are very apt and speaking ing generally are physically a fine race I 1 believe lot let them once understand the principles of truth they will be a people of great faith they are a great great people for prayer you will scarcely find a jamily family upon the island that does not constantly attend to family prayer there ther e is one tb thing ng very apparent to them that the missionaries aries have not the power their ancient priests I 1 had they could pray a in man in to death or in other words if they ware were dimples displeased bed with a person they would obtain some of his spittle and part of his garments and pray over them and the natives say he never escaped they could also heal by their pra prayer verg the power is in a great reat measure lost although I 1 have heard of it being being practised practiced now nor but very tory secretly etly tor for foar fear 1 of the tows they could t also alga i p point 0 out U t ath afef 1 id d in 4 or where stolen property was the 0 governor governor of this island told us that there were maneaf many I 1 the esnow who worshiper worshipped wor shipped ea idols but bat kentl it secret from the missionaries ile he is ia half V I 1 white the son of john young the boatswain of a british man of war who was taken prisoner and finally married among among them th eald anda abe e came one of their leading men I 1 I 1 they pike are doubtless descendants of israel as circumcision circumcision has been practised practiced among them until recently and also had places place of refuge for the shedder of blood with many other thing iw practised practiced by the israelites may god bless you is the prayer prater of brother ON GEO ON extracts of a letter from eldeir ejder 1 t 41 addison pratt to pres young toung 4 TAHITI may 15 1851 1 DE DEAR ARBRo it is with pleasure that thata I 1 i 1 embrace this opportunity of telling you that we have haire just arrived here from the island with our new vessel and I 1 am glad to say that we have much I 1 reason to feel 11 a little proud of her for she is ia a better vessel than I 1 expected to find in every respect she is about 80 tons burthen and built wholly I 1 of wood which is very strong and dura ble she is very stiff and sails well and works well 1 I suppose you von are seafowl sea fowl enough to understand such phrases and has the most commodious common iou cabin that I 1 have ever seen in a vessel of her size I 1 arrived at the last of january and found the vessels hull under pretty good progress but I 1 there had not been much done to her sails I 1 turned to on them with a will and with some help I 1 had fore and main sails and jib ready by the time she needed them a flying jib they had bought bro grouard takes charge of her we have now nosir a convenient way of our own for getting from is I 1 lind and to island and 1 hope we shall make good improvement pro of it I 1 find on my return here that the work is 14 ressi jig there are now nov about thirty members on this island mostly new ones as the old ones had mostly strayed off in my absence to california br howkins hawkins itin a from Pau arrived here soon after I 1 left for and hei he with bro brown has been busily employed in my absence bro 11 has a large field opened among the and wishes two or three elders to accompany him back and as some a of our recruit of elders do not seem to be on hand I 1 as bro busby has left and bro tompkins we have appointed to return to california and when we I 1 have supplied the places that are now calling for I 1 elders there will be hardly one in a place it seems to me foolishness that elders should come so far and then turn round and so go back because they bad not got ann to cook for them I 1 think there might be battalion boys found that would do better than thit as they have seen some hard service it wants healthy ambitious men to stand the hardships of these islands young men who are neither sugar nor salt as they are sometimes exposed to the wet As the french governor lias has bound us up so tight here we have th thought eglit proper to send bro tompkins to california to try and raise some assistance assistance for us and also to look up a gathering place in the lower country when ever you shall tell us to gather as the french have shut up everything of that kind within their protectorate I 1 have written i those particulars to you souie some time since I 1 we are on a tour among the islands and when it is up I 1 will write again ADDISON PRATT I 1 extracts of a letter from elder P P pratt to pres you konug sis SAN FRANCISCO ai aug g 28 1851 PREST Y 0 u N G dear brother I 1 am well or rath rattier er so as to be able to perform my daily duties although not in good health I 1 arrived in this some time in july together with th those ose w who h 0 O 4 p 1 me on the mission soon after our adv arrival zi bro tompkins and family arrived from the society islands reported the brethren of the mission and their families well bro dark clark arrived soon afeei from the samp same place reports were so unfavorable in regard to fience oppression and misrule thata thought it expedient to send no more elders there at present bro spratt and the saints in those islain is janda would I 1 presume b be glad to receive some aa 1 I regard to a genera movement to southern california 1 elder prat pratt has bees been instructed instruct eA by letter i the preside dewy y to counsel the saints at the sopie society elands to emigrate arid and put themselves under tinder aa isi dency of elders lyman an and d rich WU who arg are I 1 ig I 1 hern part of california inasmuch as aa ta P e such buc that they 7 connot live ive itt in ret ED NEWS I 1 1 yf fye wishes to make oc m cation 0 other subject t letters audr sajda to me at al i I 1 I 1 be for a me at chill 0 or i I 1 place without app appa i n 4 fw forward ard all coni munica islan islands df are at peace met ment we h have ave a sent ent to R ional mis missionaries siona ries viz A hami am mond philip B lewis and stillman woodbury bury who together with mrs lewis awas and hammond sailed lit on the second day of august for the port ofton of honolulu V philip blewis B lewis is appointed to preside aver over I 1 1 that mission bro john murdoch is here in in good spirits and in tolerable health ile he is appointed to take thel the presidency of a mission to australia which includes include 2 the english colonies of new holland new zeal ind and van diemann Di emana land he expects to soul sail soon accompanied by elder clias chas W wandell and I 1 perhaps another person who is about to be baptized ind ordained we found bro wandell here jn in sorrow and in a backward back vard state as to faith and righteousness but bati lie he has confessed his sms sins and shortcomings with all humility arid and has repented andreen and been re baptized ind is abtin ordained as one of the he seventies he I 1 lias has been with me every day for fer a month or nearly so and is a faithful and api spiritual ritual man i since I 1 arrived here I 1 have been diligent in the t duties iii ties of my mission every every hour and have called upon god for his spirit to help me with all the en eni i I 1 ergy I 1 possessed and without ceasing the result is 1 the spirit of the lord god has been upon in me continually on in such light annjoy and joy and testimony I 1 a ari I 1 have seldom experienced tt bro bros A lyman and C C rich have been hex 1 with me some of the time we have called 11 er erthe the old members and others and preached repent re penti i ance and reformation of life we have re many any of them and have organized reorganized re the church J I 1 several new members are being added some ot of whom are the children of the old members other are strangers from different countries we are up wards vaz of fifty members in number we have preaching twice a day on sundays in a linge laige thea tre in th the centre odthe of the city and prayer meetings oi 01 sunday and thursday evenings strangers div good attention the members feel well and art ar ull full of faith and the good spirit and the spirit ii poured out till our hearts are full 1 I 1 expect to leave this country for south america soon loon unless I 1 should be able to go to new york via the isthmus to get some books printed which does not now seem to open very favorably r I 1 am studying spanish with all diligence agaj andai ua will I 1 trust master it in the course of a f few 4 ew months P P PRATT I 1 letter from lorenzo Ii orenzo snow 0 to pres t t ident young 35 ST CITY 9 1 july 24 1851 DEAR PRESIDENT YOUNG I 1 have just writt aritte a communication for the star 11 1 1 a copy 0 of which I 1 bec beg leave to present you as it contains in the items 0 of f the circumstances of my ini inis II 11 I 1 issi aaion sion 0 prospects and present arrangements t in currying carrying forward the mission in it italy adiv k I 1 I 1 have felt it wisdom to pursue a strict pali policy OY of I 1 giving as little occasion for excitement as S possible 1 I 1 t sible slow silent and cautious moves orosi be t I 1 indispensable to securing a per permanent sue ah ligh ligament ment of the work in catholic It italy alj at fain ain this important object I 1 have e ednaal ill all the time to keep myself free fi s feeling eeling that might prompt to crowd along Jast er than the lord lighted the way and to let leej patience have all its 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