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Show m Missionary Utter jK Laupulioohoo, Hawaii, llH September 28, 1920. H)lr .Bam Peterson. )tK Dear Bom: I gueSB you will think 'Bthat the world l coming to an end, because I m writing to you, and try-tKinc try-tKinc to tell you all that I am (till allvo , ind happy and that I novor forgot tho good times that I had in "Dear Old Lonl." Well horo 1 am about 2150 miles nut to tho dear old l'aclflo nnd have 5(oro, almost 10 months, Bnd It yon t bo long until it will bo n year hat have traveled tho roads of tho Island of Hawaii ovor and ovor again and say wo aura do somo walking, mi an nvcrago of about 7C or 80 mllos a week, and mind you this is mostly - - --' " ' " "walk." It sure don't teem that I havo boei Sunt llT, hom,8 a,mot 10 montlw 1 1 , . ,n,e a,ld hat "-"0. Is truo in. aV ,b.0Ulh ' Rm h0 wo m ?f " m,lMlonr out In thi Chrt?i" W"1"5 Ul" "QoPx ol fact i a..".1 I.BU0" ll '" truo and" In bo trli. l mRke ll BCOm mul 1 nm able now to understand mostly il the commonly used Hawaiian n( v 1 urely am vtrc glad of the fwet, be ause when a ireon underttanfli uui they are trying to tell you, thw , 'jii can In some way make them un 9 demand your thoughts, I am a lei t able to talk a goodly hit In th l Hawaiian Langunge. and 1 trulj , tiiank OtMl for the lileeelng of the ame. Some people think that a per-, per-, son mutt hnve the Imiguage before iiu-y can Uo any good down hero, but most all tho Hawaiian people can , uiiiieratand Kngllah now, and many , talk it very jkkjiI, hut titore aru many j rtlio do not uwiuratamt, and bo tlicnv , fori- "Ml'si" get the langmigu In oidi-r to do me moat amount of good, i) l urn alwHs trying to "clot the laiifiiam-,' tor I do dinUo lo preach ) 111 -., ,t Oosill'l, to tlli.4 )i6pll! j i oiiui thliiK about tho "olil town" ( iihI tht-ri- aio somo muniorioiTtiiai 1 otti'ii niull with joy and iU'lllit. And tin i) iiii'if aio others that when I tlimk 01 tlu'iii it only makea me want J 10 bo better on tho morrow than I Iiiim' bt'cii today, 1 may ot hail a ooor iiiiini' In l.ihl but 1 think If all the ' i .id 1 i'er done was added u. It ) , ,1,1,1 not Or ho bad a tome think. I i lui uiU'ii mid me that "Dog Tray I a.i , .i i. ,,i ii, , boi-auae he waa In bad t iui.nu, a.ui i tell you there are " i 'i'i oi I.hi who never trt4 '" :,..! nm bettur, but only taldj "i" in u .Miho KlrkUlMll, or "That I 'Old Util.' Kirkham kid." A lot Ot i aood tiiiii would do we. It only made , un" m.i-m-, bfcauae I thought 'if l'te ( the iTiinii' then why not tho dame, mi then I am now a missionary tot I , ( linn li of Jemis Cltrltt of Lat- ii'iii.iv s.iinm, and each sight before i I rio to bod I thank the Lord for His I "'. iiiiuiy kliiduti.g to me. ( oli K.iui now i )omi ioo tho Uoapel. inn ii) many tlun-st I have aliuoHt crl( ith Jo, tor 1 hao uca many thing io makn mi' know that our father in i , liuwn Urea ami that He do,m answer i 1 rn.M i- Hliue I hint- been in Hawaii i I Iiihb Bi'i'n evil Hpiril cant out of peiilo b) the power of tho Iopl tin ,uki tho l'lipsthood, and not unly - 'lilt but mau.v, many thluut that have '!! mo a tcatlmouy of the truthful- ii i of our thurch, and 1 rejoice an4 I am exceedingly glad that t am a ni-rnhnr of the only church -In thd Am Id that hat the name of "Tho (lunch of .lenus CbrlBl ' In lu bend ii k I can truly say I am happy and lid that 1 am a Mormon hoy and I 4'. ill alwu)ft be proud lo ray ay. Wo Imp mnnv hard thins to meH ind m iii hard lhlnM to do but we ful tb.it we can and muni moot them, 'nit wo ever pray that tin- l.md will mil-lo un in our work of i-aln HouK o tint thure mlKht be a great re Joi' Iiik in the Kingdom of the Father in tho end 1 nm sondhig my very bent "Alnrja" 'o oui wife, for If I ovor loed two i'l-ii) le It In you and your wife, auk loo to write mo and then I will answor lilni, romombor me to every one who !l,llflCH. I'lonae excuee my writing beoauxo 'Mb Ii tho llrtt'tltne In months that I 'invo had my hanilt on n typewriter Mo he nlotia mul Ion la olua, n mo ka poo n inu ma Lohl. Rider llilo P. Klrklmm |