Letter from Thomas Heddock Hilton, 9 October 1894
To The First Presidency
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brethern:
Inclosed in an envelope addressed
to me from P.O. box B, I found, much to my disapp-
ointment, a letter for Pres. Wm Gardner, New Zealand.
I presume the clerk made an error when inclosing
the letters. I discouvered the mistake before the
steamer left, however, and forwarded the same to
Elder Gardner. It is several months since I received
a letter from you, consequently I felt very much dis-
appointed.
All is well with us here at present, and
spiritually we feel to rejoice in the good work in
which we are engaged, the Lord is greatly blessing
us in our labors. The people of three large villages
to whom we have been preaching the last few
months, have expressed themselves as being desirous
of joining our Church if we will only furnish them
with missionaries to take the places of their present
Protestant teachers; this we cannot do at present
owing to the limited number of Elders now on Samoa,
who can talk the native language, and all those that
do understand it are wholly engaged among the
