$30 $30 $30 90

Cash $60, T $5, $25, $5 95

Cash $5 T $20 $25.00 =^tab^ $25 50

Preston, Idaho, Pres. Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother Your favor of Dec 30th Fixing the day of my departure on a Mission to the North West was duly received and I have will be prepaired at the time apointed which is Feb. 1st thanking you for the honor confered & hoping this will be satisfactory you and ever praying for the welfare of zion I am as ever your Brother in the Gospel W. C. Parkinson

Inverury President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother In answer to yours of the 20 of December, i except the call as a missionary to Switzerland and Germany i will arange matters so i will be able to present myself at the apointen time Your Brethren in the Gospel John Hirsche Barnard H Greenwood Bishop

President Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother; I take pleasure in reporting to you the condition of the California mission at the presant and for the year 1897 just closed. There are now two well organized Branches; one in this city and one in Los Angeles. These have a President with his counselors, Elders, Priests Teachers and Deacons. Ladies relief and Mutuel Impr- vement Associations, and Sabbath Schools. Sacramento has a Branch wi with a Presiding Elder, but is without helps as there are not suitable men to fill the offices at presant, but we hope to be able to com- pleate the organization as the time rolls on; it has a good ladies relief association and a good little Sabbath school. San Diego has a goodly number of Saints but is as yet unorhganized; though they ha have a good sabbath school. There is also a Sabbath Sachool at Lat- trobe in Eldorado county, composed ocf children of non membes presided over by one of our local elders and hassisted by his wife Their tustuddies are entirely from our works obtained from Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Company. During the year we have led into the waters of Baptism one hundred and forty nine; these have been principally in the cities of San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego; with a few in S San Jose and Oalkland. The Elders are now traveling without purse or scrip in 20 counties; 13 of which have been opened up during the last year, and while we are used well in most instances in all the localities refered to yet aso far, but few baptisms have been recorded in any of these counties; still there are many friends rising up on every hand, and a warm welcome extended to the Elders in many places. The Josephites are our most active opponants. Two of the El- ders were recently 'Trap'd' by them. They were overtaken one day by a carriage with two occupants and asked to ride; and on learning who they were an invitation was given to attend a meeting at which it wa was thought they would be able to speak to the people. On reaching th the meeting house and the one who invited them began to speak they discovered that he was the gGreat 'Elder Daily' of the 'Reorganized' church, and our bitterest enemy. His whole speach consisted of a string of horrors, laid at the door of the Mormons. At the clost ofw which, Elder knight reached and took him by the hand and shook him heartily and while doing so, turned to the audience and repeted the wordsof the Saviour, Mat. 5.44. [Matthew 5:44] At the close of the meeting many of the audience came tand shook the boys heartily and asked them to their houses while Mr. Daily looked and acted as though he had made a mistake. The News Papers have been fair in their treatment towarxds us throug^ou^t the state in most instances; notably the 'Call' and 'Post' of this city and the 'Fresno Republican' and several others in the