Letter from Thomas A. Nixon, 23 November 1889
Eagle Rock, Idaho,
President Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Bro
In replying to your esteemed favor
of the 20th inst. permit me to state that as an Elder of the
Church of Jesus Christ, I am always willing to respond in
obedience to its call, and will use every endeavour to place
myself in readiness to be set apart as a Missionary at the
date named in your notification. Having quite a few
business engagements and family arrangemens to make
I feel that it will require every effort upon my part to
complete and straighten all things in the time mentioned.
And would esteem it as a special favor, could I receive some
instruction concerning the labour, and its duties, from the President
of the Mission, Bp John E Booth.
Praying that the Lord, Our God, may sustain me, and
make of me an humble and worthy ^follower^ of his Son Jesus Christ, and
Establish the work of his Church in the Earth is the sincere
prayer, of
Your Brother in the Gospel
Thoma A Nixon
James Thomas Bp
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