Letter from John A. Evans, 20 January 1895
Salt Lake City, .
To The First Presidency
of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints.
Dear Brethren:
I am in receipt of a
communication from your office dated the 18th inst.,
and addressed to John "D." Evans, care of the Deser-
et News, which I think was intended for me. In
that letter you ask if it would be agreeable to
my feelings and consistent with my circumstances
to take a mission to the Southern States. In
reply, I wish to say that in 1879 I was ordained
to the office of an Elder by Apostle Erastus Snow,
and from that time until the present, with the ex-
ception of a very few months, I have been laboring
in positions of more or less responsibility in the Church,
and have experienced considerable satisfaction in the
performance of those duties; and I have no doubt
that I would have the same satisfaction in ful-
filling the mission you mention, if, while doing
