| Show WITH THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS SALT LAKE CITY utah march 6 1895 leaving Mar loops stake oo on the ath of february at ai 9 p mB wB rother masser and myself left for bowie miles thence per the uila valley globe northern railway for thatcher forTha St Joaeph Joeeph Stake fifty miles bowie this line of railway ban baa been built since ince our last laet visit february nary ath we were the favored guests of at our old friend president layton ayton Jj the stake academy was waa birot visited after which a with wilb the board of education was waa hold held by previous arrangement friday february ath tw two large meetings of the Y ak M and Y L improvement associations were held bold in thatcher To atcher on saturday thour annual sunday school conference was wag held at peoria four miles from thatcher Tha tober there a crowded audience greeted us ua at 10 am 2 pm and 7 pm at which reloris reo oris from stake and local sunday school superintendents a few exercises by the children and instructions on sunday school matters were given by the visitors more amore meetings were held at 10 and at 2 pm these were mostly devoted to general instructions and remarks by lead ing authorities besides theoe we had an interview with superintendents teachers bishops and stake presidency ana set bet spart apart william edward mcbride As aa second assistant to lo stake slake superintendent john sims this position had boeti been previously filled by brother curtle curtis whose jabor we wire re now needed in another direction at we jc aft ft for layton lianton to fill so an at although this settlement is scattered the house was crowded never th the elees Jess and the spirit or ol the lurd was richly enjoyed monday the after a good night bights Is rest at elder WJ packers packer we held our dual meeting in st josephs stake at 10 a na at which brother karl kar G masser maeser arrested their attention by a very followed by a fow few remarks by myself and elder Chnat opher layton it ii has baa been a time of from the pro presence of 0 the lord biord we jett layton at t 3 p m by rail for bowie and re bained there until the next morning feb 12 at 9 we resumed our journey for dainton miles arria arriving anaw there at p m here we found elder isaac W from colonia 40 diaz mexico with a stake baon next morning feb 15 at we jett doming deming in a short abort time we were overtaken by a rain storm high wind and snow such a storm had not been realized in I 1 a that country for many years wito correspondingly cold temperature after traveling nearly forty miles we camped at columbus where a populous city was expected to be built the completion of the ane great international railway which has bus bot been material iced thus tar far however consequently a few wooden shanties ahan shan ties tiou unoccupied are all there is of columbus its in one of these in company with isome home others we found it was too cold to get much sleep february we resumed our JOU journey rOSY and traveled till near midnight in a snow storm this was a hard bard experience on our team ster who while sitting silting on the box was exposed to the estlie edithe rigor of the borm storm and on reaching camp be wim lingers fingers almost ifft with cold the homes borne hobbling them bunting in the dark lor for wood and trying to make a fire I 1 bad the wont w pare ot the experience so go much for that midnight camp february the balance of our hundred miles journey tu to diaz we finished between 4 and 6 5 pm feeling grateful to our heavenly father fat her lr the preservation of our lives and health our old friend W D johnson John sun sr and family received 8 warmly and administered to our needed condition after which we bad the he privilege ol of holding hold log a general meeting at 7 which was a very enjoyable and we t lugt with the ibe of god a profitable one 0 ie quite a number of old familiar faces were met here amidst handsh hande akings and expressions of joy oy and gladness gl gi ainess at kur gur sale bale arrival feb bro mor tensed of dublan between fifty and sixty miles limber further south took us with a good team to hat abat place which we reached about 6 5 p in isad and stayed at the house of bro williams an AD evening meeting was held at which we were greeted by our old friend stowell Bt owell formerly oi 0 ogden he had brought his bis carriage to take lake us to juarez the headquarters of the mexican mission and about seventeen miles from this place february 17 diaz about a in we arrived at juarez by where we were mads made welcome at the home of president george leaa dale our annual sunday conference meetings were held bold at 10 am anai 2 pm and 7 p in we also atten attended dou a spanish class by elder bider by ring monday feb 18 two more meetings wate hold held at 10 am and 2 pm at the latter the general and st sk a sunday school authorities were pr presented utter iatter which a tea choray meeting was held in the evening a large gathering of the t faints of all ages and authorities met to participate to in a kind of impromptu exercises to which pros free ident teasdale had bad pressingly invited them in bonor of weir their northern visit ors ON short speeches songo song recitations music etc eta were freely responded to and although my esteemed co laborer karl U maeser was not in a mood to contribute a song he be gave an exhibition of a college students emotional style of preaching which fairly convulsed the entire audience this closes our three annual sunday school conferences which we je let t home to 10 hold viz in maricola maricopa Mari Mori copa cops st SL joseph and nd mexican stakes at antion has also been given to the interest of the mutual improvement associations church soho ois academies board boar A meetings etc reports from stake and local superintendents child children rend exercises remarks by presidents Janta of stakes Jil shops etc eta nave contributed towards the general interest of our meetings no subject geech so ao dear to the beardo or of the parents as a that which pertains perta ioB to the improvement of the rising riling generation the general tenor of the superintendent la reports was very satisfactory chowing that the instructions given in the he guide and karl Q U Mi egera leo fee tures lures etc were being carried out to the deal best of their ability and circum stances sta noea I 1 1 I hose students who had re a twenty weeks course of tuition iu in the B Y academy Acau emy in provo were freely impart luK the same under the stake superintendents and prel pred denta instructions with very good re while we saw and heard board much to command oom we perceived pero eivid nothing to find fault with consequently it afforded us ua much Dies pleasure sure to so ao minister words of encourage ment meat to superintendents taft ebers and abil dru dreu oWe lally the tact fact that the great majority of the saints sainta in those three stakes are observing the word of biad amand nearly all the children in juarez we met many old fr ionIs and the interest awakened among all u classes toy by our visit filled our hearts with humility and gratitude tows rust god our heavenly fattier father vie te most affectionate affection ste greetings aud adieu were seemingly universal and were a pleas IOK foretaste of those heavenly joya jova that await the abe saints in our next pro arn bation on wednesday february 20 at 9 o boock pm we left jett juarez on our homeward hoo inward trip I 1 rode with wit a friend stowell lowell ri in company with brother call and aau sister heleman pratt and karl d Q messer maeser rode with brother dennis fidrus arriving at deolan between it 11 and it 11 we bad ainner at brother calp and holu heli a meeting at 2 D 01 fter after which we were invited to be present at thu the wedding ceremony of okell rowney aud anne anna amelia pratt performed by bitter dubore Fe aBdale at as the house of toe tie bridis bridat 1111 father heileman pratt at we g had bad the be plen aure of with the saints in a social gathering where t tae talent of many both to in song and aemi maul wah fully february 21 at a na we bade adieu to doeblin in frien U carriage in company with elder Te Ta adale and ana ar rived at dib diaz at 6 ap p m making our beada barters again at ai W D J Juhn oh nond le A at 6 7 p m we attended a cot joint meeting or of toe M I 1 A finishing with hard times oom e again no more friday feb 22 brother carl 0 maeser visited the academy this morn lug lag and met with the board of abuts two too and in the afternoon gave geive able instructions on educational mat tore in the he evening another gratic grand gatherl gathering ng of all the dal saints ate aa as a sociable some gome of the exercises were first read la itu 1 spanish and toon then interpreter interpreted 1 la U eug fish A great many or of the oil 1 lures are rapidly learning spanish and in the near i luiu u i ure rewe we will have it a borig boat of bouta in the mexican mission well versed in the spanish tongue on this our return trip to 0 o diaz we had bad tho the pleasure plea aure of a good visit and kind at of bishop W 0 johnson jr who had just returned from a visit vial tn through rough tile the stakes settling tithing saturday feb here wa W finally parted darted with our warm hearted iri ineide ands president ident teesdale Tea adale brother stowell W D johnson end and oabe obbera and left at on our final hundred mile travel by team our teamster being tile the son of the late lasso turley nothing of importance during this trip happened except anat brother karl 0 musser and myself were ouch minus a hat which bad escaped unobserved b by the asking ut of the ib conveyances conveyance and left on the he plains of mexico monday feb 25 we reached doming this morning at 9 0 oc look leaving by train at 1250 we were detained at colorado springs from a pm on tuesday till 11 on wednesday reaching home on thursday feb this tali completed our thirty days trip rip in the sun bun joy day school and other educational in forests of the youth of zion praying for the lord ta blow blew the numble humble labor of his ertan tand receive our thank sivi sivinia nir and gratitude for preserving our bodies from injury and permitting onto ua to return home with our health un tra impaired paired GEORGE GODDARD |
