Show i grayson co hyi kyi june 1882 editor deseret we news I 1 left salt lake city last october for a mission to the tho southern bouthern states since which time I 1 have been laboring c in kentucky my first month 1 labored with brother 3 J G bigler in butler and berg counties and sometime some bome time in november I 1 left for gra ora son pon county where I 1 have been laboring most of the time in connection with brother L B eynolds reynold 11 in in opening ip jp a new field no i eiders elders ua iders have been hero for thirty year sear y eana a ai i for as we can nind find out wo we have held seventy meetings in this and the adjoining counties but principally in this at first we met with little opposition from the clergymen they supposing that we had a Ls diffene ut biblo bibio bom theirs but finally thi y were awakened awa ened lo 10 the fact that we preached prea thed tho the bame same gospel that tha apostle Apost leVaul raul paul plech nicch ed without purse puree aud scrip and about that time there wai no email stir down this way for wo we had turned away some of their paying bemb members K their craft is in and their voices can be te heard t cho icho ing through the country with ail all manner of falsehoods about the athalat lat ter ler day saints chica is causing the people pe oale ople to investigate tue lue principles of he gospe gospel oar are very well attended wo we baptized one person in february Feb roary to which we added nine others tills this month thus wa we have had the privilege to saw sow and htay long enough to reap and inasmuch ch as wod gives the Inc increase rease reaze we have a ve very ry nattering battering natt hatt ering promise to harvest more the saints aro arc feeling well and tsik of gathering to tho the mountain cf the lords lorda heuse house that they may ba be more mora fully instructed in the he ways of the lord and wait walls in ills paths wo yvo have lave had a very r rainy alny w winter and spring string also bome some hd hard wind I 1 nd a storms one last sunday which tore up the trees treis by tho the roots and un rooted buildings the lord is blet blek ingup lab lag up the testimony ochs of ahja ants by cyclones hailstorms hailstorks hail storms ure ura farbs firby ete etc which are signs of the near a approach of tiie tile coming of the tho san ean hon eon of man desiring an interest in the faith aud and prayers pray erb ers 0 othe the saints I 1 remain your brother in the theouley only true gospel I 1 of christ LOUIS CAs gastle CASTLE DAIE DALL I 1 june 1882 editor despret notwithstanding a great gret gre t meny rent reut plans and concoctions concoct ions of 0 ed munds edmunds co bt t he aea seat t of 9 gov ov and their aids in utah the tho people of this thriving burg are living and trying to let live and building up the was wase waso 0 PI piar afes aies ai es ca of zion wo we at this tilts place are jubilant over ha he completion of our grist grit I 1 mill which started to make flour on the dinst the tho great trials and tribulations ions of hauling breadstuff s over the tha moun taina will eoon bo be a thin of tho the past we hops never to return to I 1 it again ther the weather of late lato has been very changeable cold and warm so that our crops are rather late lato but we leavo plenty of waterland wat water kater erand and everything cafes well far fora a bounteous harvest juz our crops have come up mire miro regularly than ever they have h heretofore for this we thanh thank our heavenly father the trials of pioneering now settlements ute tle ments will aso also be a thing of the pat pait of us are getting our fruit buit treed shado shade trees aud and ehrob bery and alao lucern patches and 1 fences etc so that by another year we will haye hayo forgotten that cur homes were once a desert our onn dIt ditches chesy chess which gave us so much trouble last list year are doing good service this year EO so far and our faith is good for the tho future tho the latest move of E edmunda a co has bas the he app appo earan arance aranca of a death blow to mormonism probably the readers renders of tho the aie not acquainted q quain hal ual ayed aled ted with thi this i move it la 13 thlen this no lo 10 postmaster will ba be ay aD pointed appointed no matter how small emall th thi office without it is first certified hy another P M 4 th that t the proved one opp la nat a bior ormon this tha to touches liphes a 4 be belief let lef mr eil eli Ell elator tor IB is thia this constitutional ut ional lonal it eo so pie ee In inform formus us we have been looking for fors forB some oraa time lor tot a visit from homo of the brethren of tho the twelve with abundance of good things to feed the minda minds of the people of god hui hut we J ave il cona disappointed j far yet set we hope to see them in the nea near future the health of the people is good there la Is one cue thing I 1 bad almost forgot I 1 wish to show chow the tho kind hind of ofrain men the united states government fill their official positions with in utah the late desperado geo howard kilka in colorado co grado arado was wab for some time whilo while carrying on olf his hia nefarious busl busi business ness niss of horse thie thle folo tho the governments agent on the tho mall mail route running through this country A real READ reader realer |