My First Mission

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ea, it seemed necessary for us to separate and seek places to live where we could find them among the natives. We cast

nguage; but he comprehended the situation exactly. He went to a neighboring house, where the family lived who had done our washing, and who had been very friendly and kind,

, were written, with their meaning in English. Brother Keeler and myself were preparing to go in the directions which had fallen to us, when Brother Keeler suggested th

ective large or big, and na is the sign of the plural. You see it is a differently constructed language to our

nd I endeavored to explain our position and what our business was in coming to the Islands. We had no money, I said, but anything that we did have, we should be glad

ver before in my life did I feel so thankful as I did for the shelter she offered.

ent to find Brother Bigler. He had succeeded in finding a native who was willing to give him food and a lodging plac

a-lima-nui's daughter, who was married to a Spaniard, lived adjoining; and she had arranged for her mother to live

had on our obtaining a shelter in this poor,

desire to magnify their Priesthood and to fill their missions. What they ate or drank, where they lodged or how they were clothed, were matters of little or no thought to them, so long as they had the Spirit of the Lord and were in the line of duty. Others, I

, to labor under any circumstances of difficulty for the salvation of others. When an Elder has the spirit of his mission, self-comfort is forgotten. He is perfectly happy in declaring the gospe

however common or even disagreeable it might be; we were glad to get a shelter, however humble, to lie under; our desire

gave me great comfort and joy; He revealed Himself to me as He never had done before, and told me that if I would persevere, I should

ere afterwards fulfilled. A friendship was there established between our Father and myself, which, I trust,

n whom I would like my experience to make an impression. I desire that they should make God their

o go up to Honolulu. The partner of the president of the mission had concluded

eaving home had been. Besides the Elder of whose proposed departure I had heard, I found the

received no encouragement. They had written to the president of the mission, de

gospel to, was so foreign to the minds of my companions on Maui, and to myself, that wh

vilege of hearing the truth. My prayer was that the time might speedily come when all should know the Lord, and when His knowledge would cover the earth as the waters covered the deep; and I believed in uniting works and faith. It would sound badly for ten Elders to be sent out to the islands by Elder Charles C. Rich, one of the Twelve Apostles, to preach and

reaching at the meetings they had held, and had not even given him an opportunity to bear his testimony. His position had been, and still was unplea

e, I talked freely with him upon the subject. He would go home, he said, and gladly take a mission to Europe, if he should be appointed; but to labor there he could not with any pleasure. Besides, he was an old bachelor, he added, and he ought to be married, and so he wo

it not have been better for him if he had remained? Fo