| Show MORMONS IN MEXICO atlo ATIO elder S F kimball of mesa arizona writes from hermosillo state slate of sonora SS onora Al mexico exico on december oth to a relative in this who has permitted us to make the fo howing following excerpt of his interesting communication agi III 1 I am miles south of mesa city having been called on a mission to go with apostles young and anci grant gaint and am camped four miles south of the above mentioned pice picc pl ce with it J grant and twelve of our party apostle young president macdonald and about the same bame number as are with us got on the cars and went down to guaymas Gua and from there by boat up the yaqui river to see the chief of the yaqui nation if they have the blessing of god attending their desires we will all cross the country f from rom here to the tile east about miles and stop a couple of weeks with this people and introduce the gospel among them this tribe of Lama have an independent form of government and will not allow the mexicans to come among them therefore catholicism has hold on them as it has on tile the mexican people of this country there are arc twenty three of us all told and all selected men from st joseph and maricopa maricola marl Mari leopa copa stakes men who keep the word of wisdom and are tr trying y in to do right it surprises the people in these parts to see sec so many meli meil and not one of them using tobacco or indulging in any bad habits tiie tile governer Govern pr of this slate state has been very kind to usand so have all the dignitaries nit aries of this place lace the loid has been with us so hl far lr and we can see by the power that has been manifested that there is a great work to be done in this land not among the mexicans that I 1 know of but amo amons among na this Y qui tribe which numbers upwards of we came here with teams and have been almost three weeks on the road and will probably be nive five weeks more I 1 have not seen any country in mexico that suits me meas as well as my home in mesa niesa oranges grow in abundance there and are only three fourths of a cent each cacti there ther e are lots of other kinds of fruit here her e tile the oranges are arc I 1 lust getting ripe and are splendid this yaqui country say esthe is the carden garden of mexico exico Al the river overflows like the nile this river heads close to st david about miles south and runs in a southwesterly south westerly direction and empties into the gulf of Call cali tornia about 75 miles below where we are now encamped I 1 feel very much interested in this mission and am satisfied from what I 1 have seen that great good wil wll come out of it it is is a little remarkable that president young Jed jedediah edlah M grant and father 11 C lam iam kimball bumball ball bali each have a son on this mission apostle grant was speaking about it just this morning hermosillo IIer ller is the capital of sonora and has a population ot of between and 1 should judge and all catholics there are three old fashioned churches churches in the place and you ou can go in any time and see th these ese people on their knees reading their prayers prayer sand and looking as if if they were mourning for departed friends |
