Show A LETTER Wil wainui irini road head kalti kaiti gisborne new zealand september 23 1030 brother wm win marshall randolph andolph It utah doar dear brother marshall As I 1 sit here today and listen to the rain in pour down I 1 was enjoying the rood good old home town news from tile the rich kich county reaper I 1 sort of feel ashamed of myself mys elf tor for not writing tins to YOU lou before and thanking nm you for your faithfulness in fit send sending in the paper to me I 1 can W assure you 0 u that I 1 have enjoyed it very much being so far way away front from home and the only other news that I 1 receive is from my par ants therefore to know just what is going on at honie home and lit in brief what is 19 going on in the states helps pass away a few of my lonesome moments and I 1 must state that they are few although at first you had quite a hard bard time locating me as I 1 had quite a little trouble in ili trying to locate myself also elder eider johnson from lake town and 1 I had quite an experience while we were trying to got to our destination ti spending six long lonesome weeks in F fiji iii just why we were not permitted to go on to our missions in tonga we aro are unable to say but aro arg sure that our heavenly father had a mission for us to perform here in ili the land of the kiwi new zealand the fijians treated us good but that did not stop us from getting home sick with nothing much to do vat but swim and try and find other menus means to keep front from the time we left home until two mouths months after we received no mail 11 at all then upon the arrival of mail to us it was written at the same time as when wo WC left home therefore really no now new news As you folks know there is no mission in ili fiji and we boing being greenhorns greenhorne green horns we promote our cause much but however we did get in ill a few conversations we had a wonderful trip on the oc ocean spending IT 17 days between sail francisco and auckland new zealand we got fat on the boat so you will know how good we were treated we val passed ed through honolulu and say was that a beautiful place then into american samoa which was more beautiful then into fiji which seemed to spoil it all fiji is the crossroads of the south sea jeaa 1 and there is practically every nationality there possible to have in the world elder johnson and I 1 hive have both been laboring among the maori people ile he at present is in waikato district and aff tha 1 FP cf that tin 13 Tri str fl t iris MT is poverty perty bay but is just opposite to its name my companion hails from salt loire lake and in connection w with 1 the 0 news dow that we get from home he has just started to receive the desert news prior to that the rich county reaper w wag our only source I 1 have been here in the new zealand mission for nearly 20 months and I 1 have certainly enjoyed my mission I 1 ant am thankful that my parents lad had the faith to send me into the world to perform such a wonderful work as chiq my work here with tile the maori people has bag been exceptionally good now that I 1 know a little of their language it certa certainly hily is a plea pleasure ure they are a wonderful people and as my father used to tell me when you have one for a friend you have a friend continued on page three |