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Day in the Life

Dec 16, 1891

Journal Entry

December 16, 1891 ~ Wednesday

16 Wednesday I went to the City & Met with the
Bank board I presented the board with a statement
of of Kimball the Bank inspector considerable was
said upon the subject.

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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter from Edmund Stevens, 16 December 1891

Parowan Iron Co. utah To President W Woodruff Dear Brother Your letter received concerning my going on a mission. I wish to say in reply that i am quteite willing to respond to the call and do my best but I think I could Not posible get ready untill next April Conference As It will take that tineme for me to get the means to go with hoping this will be Satisfactory Your Brother In the Gosple Edmund Stevens PS If this meet your Approval an answer will greatly Oblidge E S See over.

Letter from John Stevens, 16 December 1891

Parowan Iron Co Utah. To President W. Woodruff. Dear Bro, your Letter received all safe concerning my going on a mission. I wish To say in reply that I am quite willing To go on a mission & Do the Best I can But I think that I could Not possibly get ready untill Next april Conference as It will Take some Time for me To get means Together To go with. Hopeing this will Be

Letter from Andrew P. Modin, 16 December 1891

Gunnison President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother— Your favor of Novbr 28th, calling on me for a mission to Skandinavia, to be ready to start from Salt Lake City Jan 23rd next, received. I am thankful to my Heavenly Father, for being considered worthy to be accepted for such an im- portant mission. Everything considered: my wife being sick, no money on hand, or that I can reach by that time; but mainly my wife's conditions causes me to ask you, that my time for starting may be post- poned untill Spring.

Letter from Jules Marc Giauque, 16 December 1891

Salt Lake City, Utah, . Presidents Wilford Woodruff, Geo. Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith: First Presidency: Dear Brethren: Your letter of the 9th inst., requesting an expression of my feelings and a state- ment of my circumstances in regard to the per- formance of a mission to Europe, has been received. In reply, I thank you for the honor of such a request, and state: That I am perfectly willing to go to the nations of the earth to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and my humble endeavors to do good to my fellow-man I readily tender, to be used whenever they may be of most service, knowing that God is sufficient kind to aid and strengthen those who desire to do His will. I have been in this country about 17 years. My age is 33 years in January, 1892. I have a wife and three children. At present I am indebted about $150.00/100, on account of building and much sickness of late. But though my income is only moderate, I have steady employment, and through the blessings of my Heavenly Father I trust all such indebtedness will soon

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November 6, 1891
Wilford decides temple recommends will be signed by Bishops and Stake leaders only, not by Church president.

Dec 16, 1891