Show an extract from a letter from irvin fisher laic bahu oahu 11 II 1 I mar 1892 dear father I 1 received your i registered letter all right and some other 0 mail when I 1 arrived in honolulu on the morning of tile the feth hillst and many thanks for its contents I 1 was pleased as I 1 always am to again hear bear iron from you and especially to know all rr arc c well there and thankful to be able to report myself in the best of health healt h and spirits several of the children here have colds and are arb croupy at nights and sr harding s baby is te teething ethin and quite unwell ht at present the other children and all the grown folks are arc first class there is quito quite a little colony of us foreigners toce ignera here at the n now ow that we are all in for conference thirty nine all told 1 18 8 elders 8 sisters and 13 children I 1 thought last just conference time that our mis mission sto n family was then the largest I 1 would ever see it but it numbers 7 or 8 more now that than then not with standing the tact fact that 6 of those present then are arc now in utah our new president bro Matt matthew liew noall is no doubt the right 13 man in the right place he is full of energy and zeal and intelligent and talented as well and I 1 1 believe the mission awill will advance faster under his direction than it has been doing boino for some time past ilia his wife is also a true helpmate aud and a kalua ble acquisition to the miss mission ioD they rhey I 1 spent 3 years hera before and had bad only been home aj 2 years when they were sent here again both speak hawaiian fluently in fact not one out of a hundred can speak ins his native tongue us as nicely a pres noall speaks it and the they Y are re blessed with three as sweet little hi hildren laren as I 1 ever saw the next lay day after I 1 arrived in honolulu lono lulu sunday I 1 had bad an enjoy ihle time and will long remember lie he dabin the forenoon we attended services in our own church which st a real nice one built by bro noall hile lie was here before at a cost of and there were about active saints present then in tile the afternoon 4 of us elders ciders and about douthe bof the native saints went with pres res all to the royal koyal palace and held orvices there in the presence of her ajesta queen Liliu okalani ul we had tile the privilege of shaking ands with her when introduced and fat t tile clae se she expressed herself as icing eing well pleased with our services ud nd hoped they would be continued shiell which they probably will e stating that we were welcome ad a that her doors would always alwaes be pen len to us pres noall delivered a pi i ost obit excellent discourse in 1 iau ian introducing tile the gospel a 3 we understand ader stand it in a pleasing wayland M C V J proving 0 its principles to be in accordance with holy writ by quoting freely from the scriptures I 1 to be continued |