Letter from Ammon Meshach Tenney, 21 May 1889
President Wilford Woodruff,
Dear Bro. You will doubtless remember of my writing to you about two years
ago, asking permission to add another member to my family., which liberty
you granted at that time. If I am still worthy I am now ready to fulfill
that privilege. The lady is Sister Hettie Adams, daughter of J. J. Adams
formerly of Brigham City, Arizona residing now in Diez, Mexico under the
Bishopric of Bp. W. D. Johnson. If agreeable please send to me instructions
how to proceed as I am instructed that our union can be consumated here-abouts.
Will just say that I came here agreeable to th[e] suggestions you so kindly
sent me when I was released, but it seems all most beyond my ability to
remain here as there is no work to obtain & consequently a hard place for a
poor man, but an excellent place for those of our people that have some means
to use while they are making a home.
There is a good field for active and energetic men especially any that
can speak the Spanish for I feel that I have been of some service to our Breth-
ren here since my arrival and would gladly stay but I feel it would be unwise
to bring my family here & thus cause them to suffer for the necessities of life.
With this view so soon as I can accomplish the allready stated object I will
go home (alone) to St. Johns. So that you will know where to find me should
the time come that I could be of Service to the grand work in which we are all
engaged.
I have been away from home 19 months & have been immediately under your
supervision laboring in the Mission field. To whom shall I ask for a Recom-
mend? Priest. C. F. Robson and others instructed me that it was my duty to
Recommend My Self as I had been Presiding over the Mission where I had been
laboring, but this seems rather awkward to me and if in case it be necessary
to write to St. Johns to my Bishop it will require considerable time and thus
work an injury to me as I have now spent so much time and have just arrived
