| Show A missionary LE leefer edinburgh deo dec 4 1906 1 I 1 itic bought tight I 1 would drop a few lines to let my know hw him I 1 am getting ou on it in burdinie scotland since I 1 lei lilt t my home in uth utah I 1 havo have had tho the beet of health anil and just weight nine pounds more than 1 did in tofele tooele city two mouth month ao ago wo we had a fine trip rip both by land and sea lea there were 74 elders and charles W penrose la in the company and we I 1 enjoyed curatives cura ours tives olvea together very much I 1 was only sea sick one day we arrived in alve liverpool nov kov 2nd and 1 0 and the earne day throe three of us as were assigned a 1 to ate laborin labor in the scottish I 1 the next evoking to wo were at the mission in 0 glasgow ahe he fajt sight eight wo we saw in glasgow wa some florae derankon men and tho bomey so drunk they were ere rolling on thoi the street I 1 wua gas aligned to llor la in but bai before bet ore ruilt r id t aar theta I 1 visited my 01 flume where ray my father stud and nother mother lived ad 0 years ago rha be house was the same aames there was the tha very room ray MY slept apt 10 ill sad and tho very hole in in hk Awall wll bod that I 1 slept alert la in before wo we left lor utah ahe bieno brought brou strange thoughts to uly iby mind as I 1 raed on every thing around tho the people who jho lived there were i juat preparing for dippier di and alov quilted me to join with them in a bowl of kalo kale and a chunak or of oatmeal cake and they requested we me to write homo home and toll tell my folks how I 1 had bad dined in tho the same game house I 1 had lived in 40 years ao ago arom thera I 1 went vent to visit the old school where I 1 was farat first taught to read but tho the school house had been turned inta a dwelling log louse and the play ground into a gurden girden in walking down the street I 1 saw a butcher top bop with a sign figo over tho the door john dick 1 went in ia and found ho he was a of my father I 1 told him who vrho I 1 was and ho he welcomed we mo very kindly ile he is now 75 years of age and his wife remembered all about my folks tiny then directed me to where I 1 found three full cousins ot of myown my own and nd they me very warmly one of theta was just preparing to solid send letter to the deselee news about as she had bad talk talked edwith with a mormon elier elder irom from utah about our family but he did not know us and could civo her oo no information but advised to inquito about us as through tho the news and I 1 just dropped down among them whilo they wire fit at work tho the matter and 1 enjoyed museh three pleasant days with them I 1 am now at work in my field of labor hero here and slid gild a great many kind aind aud and good people and some flomo that are arc riot not so BO kind perhaps but I 1 enjoy my lawre labors I 1 he othal olaf i day dap I 1 went out with three other ellera to vit visit kins king Art arthurn hurd seat it Is ia a hill high very steep but that on 60 t la top here apostle orson pratt played ol ole oia e whole ahola night unto alo lord that lie ho might be able to get soula boula la in edinburgh that bat would accept tho the GOB Geo pel tho the exact number that lie ho did convert while labor latortue tue iu ili this jr lauy years year ago xo but I 1 must clofe with tho the best beat ot love lov to 10 all my klud brothers brot heri kad find sister in tooele thoele lor for I 1 can call assure them I 1 have a wil warm rall spot it in my heart tor for all of thim for or their kinda llod aps to me your brother in the gospel dospel of christ OHN bohn F r DICK |
