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Show ! tlrnugh I was b rn ag-iin. This happen- j j cd m the summer ol 43- I told my go -d step inoiher and her SiSiei liiat this' was the true gospel and that t would I come back to preach it to mv country I people, and that i also had the book to translate which was mentioned in the letter, and I said to my father, you sin by getting angry, for this is a divine call on me, a. id it would be woe unto me if I oid not obey. I was ordained in 1S45 by lvi Hancock Han-cock and received into the seveulh Quorum of Seventies, The wayf was opened before me. In Boston 1 found wuik so as to live. In March 44 my good brother found me and baptized me. As soon as I could ubiam means I got ready for Nauvoo where I arrived in November. Pres. Young wished me to translate the Book of Mormon which I did as well as I then wastable to do it. Being my endowment in the Temple, as a door keeper J weeks and as recorder one. I kit the church going west. When the 500 men were called for 1 oflereJ to enlist; but Elder Kimball wished me to stay. While in Wimeruuarteis 1 was sick aud could not go with the pioueets; but in June I started for the Rocky mountains driving 4 yoke of cattle, puijng 1848 I was going East and West and linallv.winteied in fotiowatowie. Jn the spring of 49 as 1 was going West the spirit lold me three times that the time had come for me to return to my native land. At the conference, Elder Erastus now, who was one of the twelve, was called to go to Denmark to start a mission there, and I was sent to his assistance. He did stait a great mission and went home with honor. My labors weie literary. My absence from Zion was nearly six yeais. I arrived in Salt Lake City in the fall of 55. Spent the following follow-ing winter and summer on Antelope Island Is-land as a sheepherd. Alter this 1 went and lived 3 years in Manti. In 1873 I went again on a mission to my native 1 land and was travelling in Copenhagen conference lor one year, after which I uad to release a sick Elder and preside over;Aalboig conletence about 14 months After returning home I labored over two yeats in the endowment House. Frest. Young had adyited me to move to Manti Man-ti again, which I did, and in 1880 I was called again to take a mission to Denmark. Den-mark. This time I Worked about halt the time in th oltice at ed.torial wolk Each time when going home I had em-grants em-grants in charge. While 011 my first mission a little lI my blood was died in my native city, and on my second mission mis-sion my native soil was again made to diink some of my blood. 1 have desired to do God's will, and I trust that he will forgive me my follies that I may reach the lot and place destined for me. Yours in Christ, r'eter O. Hansen. Historical & Biographical San Pelt, anJHtr Sans and Daughters. Daugh-ters. AUTIOBKAGRAPHY- Wriu.u t lh KlGISTH. Dear Sii Being a minuetman, I will make no excuse but comply with your request right awny; I was bi rn on the nth of June, r8if,:n the city of (.upeuhageu. My fatucr iieing in royal setvire I grew up in the midii of the navy folks, rather under the influence of the strict discipline fla-voied fla-voied with the scent of the briny deep. I wis born under circumstances that madj me nee truin serving either in the arm or navy. Being my desire for a tapirs life, my lather did his best to tuin my mind away from it. and paid many, dollar for good books and gave me a chance to read all I could wish for .My teeus passed rather mournfully because be-cause uf uur disagreeing so. Finally when ahp'it 31 I letter ENInore, in hopes j to get 01T to. America. But bad luck following me, I sailed under four different differ-ent fl.iud had Ia gw back home ill. the fall.; t'lieu I thought a, good deal of going iuut the navy; but time lingered aloujf till. 1 uas s then I wasfr m under my lathers jurisdiction, then l lecenei the go.pol, w hich 1 long had sought for. This, event knocked my wh ile plan in to atoqts, and all mv . attention , Zion-id..,, Zion-id..,, ,1 , . 1 , Tne gos pel was sent to me in the shape ofa letter, written by my brother abroa I of a ship, a lew miles off, and carried to shore by the Pilot. While . leading the letter I became throughly 1 convinced ol the truth, aud I felt as 1 |