Your letter dated
Jan 9th/96 was received Jan 18/96
Calling me as a Missionary to Great Britain.
Which call came very unexpected
to me not knowing it before hand.
I am pleased that my Name
was accepe^t^ed as a missionary,
But my circumstance is such
that I cannot get my Buisness
settled up and my family properly
provided fore In as short a Notice
that has been given me to get,
ready in and start on my mission
I have been in the Mexican
Mission every since 1885
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[what]^which^ you know as not been
a very easy one.
I have 12 in family to care
fore 10 children under 13 year-
old. So under those circumstan-
ces, I would like my time
extended untill fall.