OFFICE OF DESERET NEWS COMPANY PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, Cor. South and East Temple Sts. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 22, 1888 President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City, Dear brother, In answer to your kind communication of yesterday, allow me to say, that I feel perfectly willing to do whatever the Lord requires me to do; I have no higher desire than to be in His hands and performe this work. A mission to Turkey would indeed be a granting of ...

OFFICE OF DESERET NEWS COMPANY PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, Cor. South and East Temple Sts. Salt Lake City, Utah, 188[8] so much, and I believe, if it were left to my own choice, I would have gone to that part of the mission field sooner than to any other. Br. Hintze is a personal friend of mine, a brother who preached the gospel to me in Norway, and one whom I much love. I must state, however, that I have not very much ...

OFFICE OF DESERET NEWS COMPANY PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, Cor. South and East Temple Sts. Salt Lake City, Utah, 188[8] for me to go, although we have been married only for three months, and she will ^feel^ the parting as a great sacri- fice. She can also easily be provided for, I think. Her parents are well off and good Saints. But as to myself, I have practically nothing to meet the expenses of so pro long a journey. This is my only objection ...

J. M. Sjödahl 22 Sept. 1888