| Show ACCOUNT OF HIS MISSON by py elder orson JC K whitney bowery great saiu bail lake city april 12 1857 REPORTED BV br LEO my aly brethren and iii sisters bisters I 1 call can say truly that I 1 never hawe haw felt my weakness ve akness to that extent ahat I 1 now dow do in ili being beina I 1 called to address an air assembly of saints of this magnitude it is something I 1 never have yet attempted my illy Aper experience lence lenee in preaching the gospel has been very limite dand in a different field from that which most of my illy brethren have moved in ili but still I 1 feel ira ita duty to tell my brethren and sisters how I 1 feel and and what I 1 know knop and realize at tile the present time when I 1 left this place nearly three years agoy age I 1 thought they had fiad called one of the most wild and nattle rattle headed boys they tiley could find but still estill I 1 was willing to go forward and do the tile best I 1 could and that tha is the reason I 1 now r stand ta n d bedora you though 1 I had rather rattier listen to the tile instructions of those around me for I 1 feel my weakness but I 1 am willing lo 10 do tho tile best I 1 call can I 1 rejoice that I 1 stand before you at et this tha time and I 1 thank god my illy lien Ilen heavenly venly father that I 1 was d deemed amed worthy to togo logo go forti on oti a mission and d declare are the gospel to the people of the earth I 1 have been brought brou glit lilt to realize the tha diffner difference ence betwee between tl tile the religion I 1 profess and that which is practiced practised by those thosa ili in the tile world I 1 fix fil have ave ava been a illi mormon ormon but I 1 did not realize what it was I 1 could hardly have told what it was if I 1 had been called upon upon before I 1 went on my mission I 1 could have told that I 1 was always ahva a willing to do what I 1 was told but what it was or the difference the contrast between it and the tile re legions professed by the world I 1 did not know stilow I 1 bad had heard bieard the brethren on tile the stand speak of the llie religions of the world and as I 1 thought burlesque them but since then I 1 have attended their meetings and heard ne rd their ministers preach and it is more nonsensical chato it was was represented I 1 was astonished to see men lead iad away by such ili ill ti lings ins i the first meeting of the tile kind I 1 attended was nas in california I 1 do not remember who spoke but lie he commenced praying and made a long prayer and in ili the course of the tile prayer ha he prayed fervently for the Sons consuming fire to colna coins coina right down dowil amongst I 1 s iid lid to a man amfin who wiio sat wt clexx nex to me if it comes I 1 shall he heaving leaving hea rea ving I 1 aint ami reidy ready re reldy idy fon for it to me it seemed folly forI for fon them lem jem to pray for a thing they knew nothing about and if they got ah an answer to their prayed pray eis els s they would have beun been killed in a iniz ilife I 1 rejoice to stand before you this morning and bear my testimony that tint I 1 do know that dior alor nio monism nisin is true that joseph smith was a proa prop liet ilet of god and I 1 have good reason to know if it I 1 know khow that his successors are now gatli ered around me anthis on this stand I 1 real realize iz a that I 1 have luve had their promises upon my head while I 1 have luve been gone fulfilled to the letter i I 1 shook hands with br brigham ahi abt on leaving him in iron Count yin 1851 1831 1 lie he told me if I 1 would go and be humble slid and prayerful eliat 11 ib is 11 over the things I 1 had to attend to I 1 should COMA eora eoma home safely and find every thing as my be heart beart art would wish visit I 1 met br heber C cimball and ha hat repeated the same words word ferword for word I 1 alsa alsol met br lerenzo young and und ho he said sald the tha e paule game word for word br dr imell came up just then and sa ds there are two of us agreed 3 said I 1 there are three and I 1 hang oil on to it and while ou on my mission that promise has ever been upon my mind to cheer me u up and it has been truly fulfilled I 1 have returned in safet yand found every thing tiling as well welt as my heart c could oua oud wish every one of my old friends frien Is ls thit has met rire tire me lias been glad to see me and I 1 can assure you I 1 was glad to see them audi and andi 1 I feel as though this is the only place that is to me desirable while br woolley was speaking of the borrup eions that are now abroad in ill the world I 1 felt that I 1 could testify to it I 1 have been in one direction hein helli he iii another but in it whichever direction we may go we will find them the same in my humble opinion I 1 thought I 1 knew a something about the tile world before I 1 left these valleys 1 though thought I 1 understood some few of their practice practices but when I 1 arrived in california I 1 began to think that we as a people had progressed w 41 light and knowledge very fast while they had gone the other way very fast for it did ilip lio llo sem bem hs ils though I 1 could find pleasure in it any society except with my brethren all looked wrong and badi bagi bad baj wanted to get gel out of I 1 their midst I 1 was in a hurry harry lo 10 get to the tile place of my des in nation alion but it was some timeT lefore we reached there we started from here bere on the oth ath of may blaya Alaya ana aua ii d it was not the 1 ath of november that we reached eliere aher e we were welcomed omed by our brethren both bogli those that had come from the valleys and our 0 brethren bretl iren alk ahi welcomed us and were glad to see us it was then I 1 felt an earnest desire to acquire 6 know knowledge lede of te language and faithfully faith laith fully perform that va which i h was required of me but I 1 was called to stop in we did not all arrive at the tiie same time wa wa went jn in companies seven in ill the tile first and aud or five the next and so oil on as we could not make arrangements to go all at once oil ray nay arrival I 1 was w is appointed to labor on the island of K kauai lual in iii corri company pany paty with br edward partridge who wiio had not yet arrived and did not for some two or three weeks I 1 As was there under the flie presidency of br lewis doing what lie he told tae tar wor workings kinga little ac c until br edward edfurd arrived when we struck out among tild the ila lia natives tives and there I 1 began to realize what 4 nisin was we were vere alone and could not speak a word of the language and we were ail al ill in all to acil aali each other and asked tile the lord for his spirit to be with us that wo a bo be enabled to accomplish the vork work for which we left our oun homes and preside pres ids we then began lo 10 consider we could make the natives heir hezi aud and under understood or it wt arid and we thought if it the biord would not do any thing for us we were ill rather poor business bin but lie ud id hear us and we were blessed in every tiling we sit set our lands lauds to it was goin going down from good living to something that was pretty hard but it is astonishing how hoa low much better it goes where the loid blesses anything it goes down first rate and we fleshed dalt ilg ill lil up oil on it as did most of the llie brethren as at soon as they got there we went among the lla ila xia tives and although we could not make them understand we vve said paid they felt for us and everything thay they could do forus aus pus they would they would our wishes but it was not long before we begin to fallt tan a litile elitife lo them we landed at a place called nawiliwili on oil the tile of or kauai 1 I 1 got a letter fj from om br reddin allred that lie would meet us at a place called ten miles mites distant that was tiie llie first we had bad heard from any white person and the 1 bree days we had to wait did seem pretty y long like so diany months to us we trudged over there scarcely y knowing the road batlas it hap v ve a looksha right road and aud found sound ars allred ral rai I 1 could cond not help but feel bad but still stil I 1 felt good it was raining raining and they tiley were barefooted lid and t then realized tiow liow liow ilow tile the elders had to do in lands I 1 could see it forcibly illustrated but they wale nele glad to see us and we were gidd to see them and I 1 call can testify to ille 1110 falli faill falness of ars allred alfred and molen malenas Mo lenas as also to that of every one of tile the brethren with whom I 1 llave bave been associated upon that mission bout of the nineteen brethren went beni there wi with ih me elery eiery one is faithful and determined to live up to every thing that is required of them and keep li ia the path of their duty I 1 there has always alwa ys been a union amongst UP us never a jar or anything lo 10 disturb di our peace we have been just like a d loving family from froin the hie time I 1 started u until it til the day I 1 left lert I 1 believe I 1 enjoyed tile the confidence cfall of all ail with whom and aud I 1 inov or they emijo ed mine mi newe we there con coni 1 traded ties giesy which never will be dissolved while hile bile time shall shail last I 1 know ihnow theotre aro are faithful and trae and I 1 never wish to be associated with a better belter set of men or bos boyr than thy th y are the work of tile the lord upon the hawaiian islands is progressing they are not adding many new members mem liers Church Cb but ut are striving to teach the old od member members jal jai cind d endeavoring to make them realize what 0 ism is I 1 that they may live up to what the they know II 11 is very easy to baptise the natives you point it out to them in the scriptures and alid they are willing willina to go forward and be baptised baptized sed but that is a very little thing it requires a great deal L of patience and I 1 havo bavo bee been a see some of our brethren have the tiie pati pi patience tience ence eure they have to reason ith them and talk taik gawith willi them to keep them in road they are very easly lead off just like little children we call can lead them anywhere but to dolliem dot dol liem jiem any good 1 d we have gatto be right wi with them meeting with them every evely day and som somei some i times three limes times a day and kp keep instruct ing and teaching arbing te them if they do get butof tiva tha way they will repent and confess every thin thiD thing gAnd gaud and aud ui ke clean breant 0 ot it I 1 have seen them weep realizing that ilia they had lied done wrong but they would very soon boon forget it iland and do the samne earns aga ar a ill in I 1 do not know that ts this is any worse than wu y of daae liow ilow fo bligh notto live ilva up to our privileges and a lid iid not take lake an I 1 interest in it these things which arb ara calculated to exalt us here and he hereafter I 1 it makes my heart feel good to inte irate an opportunity of stand i tig before you erenio eyen eren if I 1 cannot edify you very much to see your good coulten ances you are the best people in tiie tile world and I 1 know it there is no joy nor peace nor happiness where I 1 have been save wah wab the few that wor shipped tile the god of israel and believed in tile the same principles we did the world do donot not believe and cannot call cari not appreciate op preci ate the blessings that ye yie enjoy I 1 have seen apos tacy since i teft left his this place in it almost every form inen men that I 1 wd had known and men that I 1 had not known of bf almost every disposition and the reasons they assigned for the tile course they had taken were various but I 1 came to tho the conclusion it all might be summed up in it a few words when a uan ran feels that lie he lias has done wrong lie he commences to justify himself a little then lie he begins to find fault with thoe thole who wiio are to rule and guide us like fathers and are our best mends lie will find fault with them obe hobeing ing them I 1 and falls into darkness deeper and deeper until at last lie he cannot see that he is ill in transgression these are the tile reasons I 1 assign and it is is my opinion that when we find ours ourse elvesa eltesa hes a little wrong we should come up and do th ething that is right it may inay hurt a little but if it did not it would not be any adiv trial thre there is no use in backing out when callei upon lo 10 speak come up and open your mouth and you will say something a mail man cannot say anything ver very y wrong on this stand if lie he feels feela right richt and if he should this tilis is tile the very place where lie can be corrected that is tile ilia wa way I 1 always feel I 1 told you I 1 felt blessed this tilis morning I 1 feel that I 1 am paid for what little I 1 bave have passed through I 1 Icon consider it nothing I 1 never have had bad so severe a trial I 1 never hate dany as mi cli as I 1 did to come up to this stand stands I 1 was not afraid of bein belin K hurt or afraid 0 of doing aily ally anything thing wrong probably many of you have exp eap riel ced eed the tile but I 1 rejoice that I 1 have been counted worthy to be called to go oil on a misi mission oil and I 1 rejoice that I 1 have done dond what I 1 have that I 1 have returned in it safety w withie with f M de confidence of my bre brethren I 1 do not know kilow that I 1 have anything more to say at tile the present time my is that the lord may bless us s one anali andall and ail all 11 and ana enable us to prove faithful and endure to the end amen |
