Letter from Don C. Musser, 7 January 1893
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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
