Letter from Abraham Owen Woodruff, 20 June 1894
Dearest Father and Mother:
Your kind letters of the 4th and
3rd respectivly were received this morning and contents
devowered. It always creates joy in my heart to again
hear that you are enjoying one of the greatest blessing to
men: "health." Many thanks for your favors and to Ma
for di^a^gram sent. This is about the first sunny
morning we have had in the month of June. I
believe if has rained every day without one exception and
our weather has been fully as cold as April. It is fine
weather for Beets and garden stuff but bad for fruit
as fruit does not ripen well in stormy weather and is
much more sour than if we had good weather.
My dear aunts although I have quit reading which
will neccessitate a little back set in my learning the
language, still I am getting on quite well with my language
and feel ever that I am blessed. Although the Devil
gets into some of our people some times and it is
hard to keep all in order, still our good work ins
slowly progressing. Last Sunday evening; once more I had
the pleasure of going down into the waters of the
grand old "Main" and take another soul through
the waters of Baptism. My subject this time was a
young Holsteiner about my age his name is Clauson.
I have hardly ever felt such a spirit as exhisted at
the watters edge. After the sun had left us here and
gone to throw her glorious light onto the dear land
in the west; as darkness stole over the land as small
