Show PROGRESS IN california MISSION NAPA naps napa county california january 22 1897 many times time since I 1 left my home borne at maelda blaho in the letter latter part of february 1895 1 have enjoyed looking over the pages of your valuable paper to the elder its ita face to la familiar its ite voice that of a friend and best beat cf all its oon con Is the missionary correspondence so bo I 1 concluded to add my mite to the be ever increasing stream my time has baa been spent in california part of the time north and part of the time south of the tehachapi december 1896 in company with elder V 8 ra raymond amond of menan idaho I 1 came to napa and started to open anew a new field we were entire strangers here depending on the lord and the generosity of the people and so far we have bave been wonderfully blessed last sunday the elder eider 0 barrus paid us ug a visit as he was wag on Z his bis way home from samoa and we had a 8 pleasant time together tuesday we visited d tile Vete Vater rara arle home at mountville yountville Yount ville and spoke to of the old soldiers some of them wore acquaints acquaint eJ with the latter day duy saints and were very glad to see bee ups u while one in ia particular said that he be tied bad enough or of mormon years ago and I 1 came to the conclusion that he was one of those who failed to got get to the valley and stays I 1 out in the snow all winter so I 1 N blame blama him much as the associations were riot not pleasant ones to him we have been received kindly la in most instances and are gradually making friends while prejudice to is not so go intense as formerly la in seven days past we have held beli six meetings and distributed about tracts walking in all about seventy live five miles the pros peole in this state are and I 1 expect to see a great work done here in the near future your four brother in the cause of truth W N WOODLAND |