Show experiences IN THE MISSION HS sioN FIELD by vernal bastiani Bast lan sigard 0 traveling through the country as mormon elders ciders do I 1 take the first house and my companion the next some of the people will talk with aou OU just a as soon as you tell thorn them you are P a mormon oh ive heard all about they s say ay you your men have seven wives and they go and shut the door of course whenever we got a chance we ne tell them we have only one wife and sometimes not any at all we travel through the country from place to place and sometimes walk twenty miles a day in the woods before we come to a settlement while servants of the lord preaching to tho the people repentance and his word wo we meet with many people some good and some borne bad ones too but when we ask for lodging they say wo we cant keep you ill tell you what to do friends we are crowded my IY wife is sickly too but bat as we cannot keep you ill tell you what to do go out to the next place its only half a mile the people there are wealthy j keep you in all style go out to tha next noal place I 1 am suro sure keep you there their house N s large and furnished they have alc plc ty of oc room to spare so then wo we tired mormons cormons must wind our weary way unto the next 0 old id farmhouse to such a place to stay the people are most crowded had supper so they say they think tho the next place bettor so 1 send us ua on our way so then we journey onward until we conic come at last unto a large stone mansion with door all made of glass oh I 1 guess we know you you are mormons cormons Mor mons did you say you travel through the country to lead our wives away and ship them off to utah secure them with a wall bring them down to slavery destruction st to them all we then than go to the school house which Is our last resort and sleep on hickory benches where slivers sometimes smart the lodging we can bear but the board it makes us faint to stand it it requires a faithful saint and now ive told my story boyr mormon elders do how they suffer tribulations when they are far from homo home |