Show UPS AND DOWNS of ja Tonn tennessee essee teon tenn july 1887 editor des deseret eret news how eagerly we in the field look for your y oar paper and especially for the items penned by our co laborers As my experience has been somewhat different irom from those I 1 read of I 1 will describe some of it there is in wilson county aman a man who has for years been a friend and p provided a home for the elders more than 50 have partaken partaker par taken of his bis hospitality he had furnished a room known as the mormon elderbroom elders room with comforts and conveniences five of us stayed bare more than a week in mayo and we might have stayed five times that period it if we had wanted to he is ft 1 rough maui kanand and some rough characters are around him but not one of them would be uncivil to one oae of uncle perks guests guesta there is also a widow wadow lady who gave the ground and timber for the saints to build a house to worship in her sons belied to felland fell and pet get the timber gimbor to the sawmill saw mill and to build the house when the elders assemble there as they frequently do she cheerfully provides for them waits on them at table and does not partake until the elders are done so much for wilson at cannon there is a man and his wife who have furnished sheda a home for the elders for two years they have plenty to eat and though they have no windows in the house it is a cheerful place made so by the hearty welcome we receive elder daybell and myself are laboring in this vicinity and they look for our return after an u absence of eight orten or ten days as anxiously as one of their own family I 1 have just been nursed through a severe sickness by them when we had bad an appointment where threats had bad been made the dear old mike followed without our knowledge to protect us if necessary and these people say well bid elder or has gone home and we never hear from him at all for fear I 1 should likewise forget I 1 have written to my wife and chUd children reia to wate them and to the sisters of the tee relief belief society to send copies ot of the Exponent and some tokens I 1 believe if the elders would invite the societies of their wards they could and would do much to assist in the work now for our labors we start tor for a new field we call on two young men twins twine they welcome assay they will geta give out our appointment we meet a pleasant crowd have a free flow of the spirit and give an appointment for the next evening As we have three miles to walk we do not wait for supper lest we should be lat lato the house is f full all I 1 have said my fifty tifty way and brother D is just warming to the work when whoop la ia the distance announces thit that we are to be disturbed excitement at once dofice in the assembly and no more interest can betoken betaken be taken in tk the r remarks there ride up some ferdows and one crane by name a bird abird of ill repute rides around the house cursing while we are speaking whistling while we are singing and groaning while we are praying the meeting is broken up the people huddle in groups and the fellow rides off clr in ehg several pistol shots as he goes goe ke we are forgotten and pass the n night ight in the schoolhouse where brother brothe r D is undecided as to whether my grean ings are for they hak I 1 sins of the world or caused by the hard d benches we lie on next morning lor for fear of being asked where we stayed the night before we do not callior call for tor breakfast but eat blackberries we wander aimlessly descend a very steep hillstrop hill stop at a house to inquire where we are and are invited to dinner and to preach at the jim george schoolhouse A peddler takes the aes six miles down the creek and lit in the evening we tell our story to those who have never heard of us again we are invited to preach and the next evening we continue the subjects taught before invitations to reach are extended in three S erections we next ramble to possum hollow hallow where we hold three meetings two of them on sunday then to the atwell house three mues miles off where we fill one aud and have another appointment but I 1 am stricken with the lever and we cannot fill it it is a pleasure to proclaim the gospel when in health but if sickness does not make a person think of home I 1 do not know what it would take to dow dose tennessee is a beautiful everglade with pure e water and add plenteous and ana aban abundant t vegetation toe the hillsides hill sides are cultivated where it is so steep that it appears as it if the laud land was turned on edge and cultivated on an both bath sides I 1 arwill will give you some of the salutations of the he south A man rides up to the gate Hel hello lol 1 the lady goes to the door I 1 I 1 come and hold my horse your horse will hold himself I 1 reckon light and come in at parting you youens luns all come down youens You luns uns come up stay all night Ka faint int I 1 reckon how much corn did you vou raise right bight smart I 1 reckon we sold a right smart loaned a right smart fed a right smart to the ho hogs s and have got a right smart left I 1 arecton reckon 11 very respectfully convalescing and scribbling WILLARD |