| Show A IDAY DAY IN MICHIGAN PORT HURON michigan july 1896 I 1 left salt lake ac city ity june 2nd and 1896 to fill a mission to the northern states arrived in kansas city missouri june fth there I 1 met four elders who were abjuring abou ring in kansas city next day I 1 met president dark clark who was returning home having been released on account of the sickness of his wife I 1 remained in kansas city two days awaiting the arrival of elder samuel G spencer who had been appointed to succeed brother clark he assigned me to labor in huron michigan on june ath I 1 left kansas city for Cli chicago cago arrived there the morning of the ath there I 1 met a iii number umber oi of elders among them brother C D fjelsted one of the first seven presidents of tire seventies I 1 spent two days lookin looking gover over the city and took the evening train for port huron where I 1 arrived june nth here I 1 met brother john N davis and hyram S Aronld Aron ldson soD the lormer former returned to chicago to take charge of the conference there while the latter remained with me to labor in port huron we have not succeeded in baptizing any yet there are some that are investigating our principles principle sand and we hopp good results will follow I 1 will give you one days experience in the missionary field as taken from my burnal june rath we called upon a local methodist preacher who was out repairing his barn we entered into conversation with him upon the principles of the gospel aad got along fir strate until we showed m that their mode of baptizing was not in accord ance with the plan taught by christ and his apostles when he became angry and said he had bad something else to do besides talk religion we gave him a tract and left him after warning him to search the scriptures the next place we called at was a wealthy farmers he came to the door in answer to our knock we handed him a tract and commenced telling nim who we were when the old lady came to the door and asked it we were mor mons we answered yes when she exclaimed 1 I hate a mormon as bad as I 1 hate poison after she bad abused us a while we asked her if she knew the mormon people personally she said no but she hed had read about them t that h at th they y were a very wicked people after she had somewhat run down clown we told her we bad come to tell them something good about the so called mormons cormons Mor mons we talked awhile with them and the spirit of god softened their hearts and they asked us in to dinner afterwards we talked with them for about an hour and explained the gospel when we left she I 1 ws wished hed k us god speed in our labors thus you see a soft answer burneth away wrath the next place we called at the old gentleman invited us in we entered took seats and chatted a few minutes uvon upon various subjects wethen aethen handed him a tract and told fold him our business he looked at the tract and when he saw the heading joseph smith the prophet he threw it down upon the floor and said he be did not want it or us but that we would oblige him by moving on down the road 6 As brother spencer had told me that I 1 was to make my home wherever i 1 could get to take my hat off I 1 thought I 1 would rather obey brother spencer than him therefore we sat there quite ancon cern edly lie then said that he did not want to have anything to do with us I 1 bore my testimony ses to him that what he had heard against us was false he said he would not accept of ito it we finally got him coded down and he took his bible and we had a good time for about two hours when we left him he said that if we were trying to build up and not tear down he wished us god speed A A BRAMWELL |
