| Show the mission in malta extract pf af a letter from elder thomas obray eau baptisms timms ac STRADA SAN doni DOMENICO MALTA august 1852 DEAR RICHARDS it is beyond my power to make known the difficulties attending this ml mission i s I 1 have not only to er with catholic ast with protes Prote saut ant who are circulating lies as fast asp as a thors horsa can call run in order to stop the work of bf god on oil I 1 I 1 island t and but god be I 1 a am ii enabled to say that I 1 have added awn since silica alast wrote to you which w makes two members of the church of jjesus christ of icatar day saints here rejoicing in god I 1 last la s t sunday the 17 th I 1 ordained a good man an elder by naine name george burrage he ha leaves 1144 mata ta for england eagland this day week to get his discharge wilan I 1 he wilt will return to me I 1 have circulated the tracts that I 1 hold had from tue the office at liverpool and what the sheerness saints were kind enough to give all over this I 1 island two of the brethren that I 1 baptized were catholics one I 1 have ordained a P priest riest he w was ordered by his commanding officer to go to his priest and iu ini L form him what lie had done he went and took the book of mormon with him acid ni many anymore more of our books and gave them to his P riest priest who said if he e could see that joseph smith was called of god he would baa ba saint as well as lie this is the second that hap ba got our works the captain of ofir brothers regiment has ordered a book of mormon mor m Q as soon soon as I 1 got get them from Eu england glaDd 1 I 1 feel the I 1 lord is going to do a good work here e I 1 long for phelime the lime when you will see ioe it righetto right to send mo me a good elder tor NT there is plenty for us to do here may thi the lord bless blesi you is my prayer i 4 yours in the covenant of peace I 1 THOMAS OBRAY |
