Letter from Abraham Owen Woodruff, 20 May 1894
Prest. W. Woodruff and Wife
Dearest Father and Mother:
Your kind letters of April 30th have been received, & I
hardly know how to pen words, to express my
gratefulness to you for them. The Portraits of the Temple
also came but am sorry to say were torn quite a
bit. I suppose some person had taken them out
before they reached me and either willfully injured them
or else did so trying to replace them in their case.
I shall keep one myself and make the "Mission" a present
of the other, as compliments of Pa and myself. Am delighted
with them & I assure you, you have my hearty thanks
for the same. Dear Parents I have just returned from
holding our Sunday services & will put a fiew of my
thoughts on paper. We had a splendid meeting and
so far as I myself am concerned I don't know when
with one or two exceptions I ever felt the spirit of
God so keenly. Mother in your last letter you said
were it not that you knew I was where the Lord
wanted me, you could not be happy during my absence
(or words to that effect) Now I want to say to you
my Parents that I thank God that I have a testimony
that I am where he wants me. Never before have
I felt it so strongly as this day. My posisition here
requires me to become somewhat familliar with both
Catholic and Protestent belief which exhists here, to be
able to battle against ^them.^ There are some young people
