| Show THE WORK WO VS IN TENNESSEE TENNES EE CITY utah march 1887 editor deseret news I 1 left my home in lehi city october 15 IM 1885 in company with twelve eiders eders we went direct to chattanooga via the U D R G railroad to pueblo colorado i we ae were then transferred f to we ane atchison topeka santa fe railroad aud and went on to kaunas kansas city here we changed cars again and proceeded oil to memphis thence to chattanooga tenn and there we were met by elder john morgan and were assigned our fields of labor I 1 was sent into east tennessee conference I 1 labored labore four months in company with john A beavan from thoele tooele city elder beavan had bad acquired quite quite an experience as a mi missionary bio sio nary and a I 1 we traveled and preached wherever we e could get the chance and met with fair success elder eider S H head of idaho territory lory took elder beavans place in february and we labored labOK rid together for abbat ien en months during this time wo w held some fifty public meetings baptized twelve persons and blessed some cail dren we were often lied about and bornt sometimes I 1 es grossly insulted but bat we rejoiced tin an fn our labors and were blessed very much of th the eLord lord and had bad many manifestations of his spirit and blessings upon ua we sought faithfully to make the gospel plain to the people and I 1 trust that many will t think hink ot 01 what we told them when we are far away the opposition that we met with served to strengthen and nerve us as to our duty and we tried to treat everybody kindly I 1 next traveled with ira W hatch from utah I 1 labored with him until I 1 was released to return home and while we were together we enjoyed our labors very much we made our headquarters at brother win greenes bou house seLee lee vahey hawkins county tennessee brother greene is a fine wan maja and has a nice family his bis house bouse has always been open to the elders since he became acquainted with them I 1 was released to return home with the company that left chattanooga march 1 1887 the company numbered about 2900 souls most of the emigrants going to colorado some colne forty coming to utah your brother in the gospel B W brown WOODS CROSS davis county march lath 1887 editor deseret N news aws I 1 have performed two missions to middle tennessee and since that time having kept up a correspondence with some of my brethren whom I 1 baptized and others and fil iding out through them hem t that there bad not been any of the elders to visit them since the massacre on cane baoe creek and sending me word that they felt like sheep without a shepherd I 1 thought I 1 would pay them a visit and left here on february y 1 I have visited sited the saints in hickman kinan and maury counties and found them feeling well I 1 can say that it was a time of joy and I 1 teel leel amply paid aid for my visit they received me very kindly and we had a good time together I 1 held three meetings which were well attended I 1 I 1 performed two baptisms and blessed three children at shady grove there are twenty five members in the shad shady grove branch and ten in the loves love s branch I 1 wish to say to the brethren and sisters whom I 1 visited that I 1 got home safe and found the saints in utah feeling well never better the persecution which is being brought to bear upon them is strengthening their faith and they are becoming more united la in the gospel our enemies are doing a good work but they dont know it though the day is not far distant when they will JOSEPH ARGYLE |
