Letter from Bengt Nelson Jr., 22 March 1894
Cedar City, .
President Wilford Woodruff,
Salt Lake City.
Dear Brother:
Having received a letter from you in
regard to going on a mission: which I deem proper
to answer: For I presume you do not know the
circumstances in which I am placed. Sometime ago
two of the Presidents of my Quorum visited me inquiring
my feelings in regard to this matter. I expressed myself
in this way. If my health would permit I would be willing
to go: but as I told them that I had not seen a healthy
day now for several years years. my impared health has
come through an injure, and during about three years of
this time myself and family was almost entirely kept
by my parents; But the last year or two I have been able
to do a little light work; and have been mostly able to
provide for myself and family. I had no idea at the time
that my name would have been sent up as a missionary or
I might have explained further to them my situation.
I am at present homesteading a quarter section of
land which will have to be proved upon this present year.
Having received your letter I thought it would be my
