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Day in the Life

Jan 7, 1893

Journal Entry

January 07, 1893 ~ Saturday

Jan 67, 1893
I spent the day in the Office I met with C C Richard
Shirtliff & several Brethren from Ogden concerning
the Ogden Standard a good deal was said upon the subject
^[FIGURE]^ I wrote 3 Letters sent one to [blank] Woodruff sent her
my likeness and the Contributor containing the likeness of
the House I was born in I came home & fixed up
my Journals

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Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory
President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter from Charles Augustus Cobbley, 7 January 1893
Pleasant Grove Utah Co Jan 7 1893 Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother Yours of 28th december was received and in reply will merly state my circumstances and then lave the mattr as to my ging entirly with my Broetheren over me I have seven children under the age of thirteen the oldest boy is six years old I have a small farm I also do som black smithing for my neighbors During the last too years with the best that could do with my work and farm and by useing the
Letter from Don C. Musser, 7 January 1893
[end of sideways text] Jerusalem January 7th 1893 First Presidency Salt Lake City Utah U. S. A. My dear Brethern: You, doubtless, would like to hear something from the "Turkish Mission." I am sorry to have kept you waiting so long, but the fact of the matter is, I have had nothing of importance to communicate, and, therefore, thought it best not to write. Shortly after my companion's death I had the pleasure of baptiseing two souls, sisters, at Haifa. I then came to Jaffa whare I baptised a nother sister, a blind lady. These are all germen people. I havent, as yet, adminis- tered baptisn to any of the native Aribs, though I have had one or two applicants. After Bro Haag's dismiss I thought I had better stay in this part of the country as our saints here have been left a long time with out an elder. Preveious to this I had been studying the turkish language. But as that is not spoken here, Arabic being the tongue, I droped the former and took up the latter study, which I find extremely difficult. Unlike other languages, one must first learn the grammer before he can read correctly. My desire was, and still is, to master this language that I might become proficient to teach others it. With this in view I employed a teacher, but after a short time, on account of my finances, I was forced to dispense with him. Since then my progress has been slow. Since comeing here I have made a

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Jan 7, 1893