Letter from Ammon Meshach Tenney, 5 March 1887
[1887]
Dear Bro Allen
I recieved your kind letter which
conveyed the news of a Mission to
the llakis [Yaquis] in Sonora Mexico
I amediately answered it &
Now again will answer more fully
I desire to Place before you my views
coupled with my situation since my imprisonement
and I do so freely & ask you to treat it
Confidentially
first I will say that the time
I wrote you in relation to a Mission to
the Llakis ^yaquis^ I did not expect to be
Honored with a Call so very quick
allthough you did not state the time for
me to go but I thought that it would take
at least untill next fall
Next) My financial circumstances are
in a very pitiafull condition.
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sad indeed was the Parting, & directly in
opposition to all our feelings, but it seemed
our only source in order to enjoy liberty
for my family sufferes more when I am in
prison than to seperate, besides this
it was the united council of my Brethren
Coupled with anthe earnest request of her
Father David Udalf of Niphi for her
to Come Home
Again there is some work left Me
by My Father & Mother who are both gone
My Father Has never been Adopted to any one &
what is still more ergent if Possible My
Mother's Children are not Born under the
Covenant, Father & Mother were married in the
gentile world & Have neglected to attend to that
very important labor & now that the Prophets
are that I will go still farther away from the
Place where these ordinances can be attended to
I greatly desire the Privelage of Cealing My
father to some of My Brethrne & there being
Adopted to him, there is 10 children Born out of
the Covenant 4 only still alive & I am the eldest
and of Course ^I^ feel the responsibility that I am under
I regard My Call to the Llakis ^Yaquis^ as not only very
