My dear Brother: With pleasure I hand you herewith our financial
report for the past three months. You see we are able to keep our
head above water, and we have a very nice office to invite our
strangers in to see us, such as news paper reporters ect. Indeed
I am happy to say we have a very comfortable conference house.
I am prepared to receive our brethern as they come to
their fields of labor. We have about 120 Elders in this field and
it seems as though we could use that many more to a good advantage
Wehave only baptized upwards of 100 people since my time here, but
I think that is fairly good when we consider that nearly all of
our Elders are new in the field. Our Neophites, what we have are
good inteligent people, and we are educating them hiow to pay
tithing and live their religion.
I have been all through the field twice and have organized
Eleven Conferences. Our Elders are full of faith and determined
to do their duty. Part of them travel without money. Recently
while I was at Boston holding conference I met an old member of
our Church who was Baptized by Prest. Young and he has not seen
one of our Elders before for 45 Yrs. With love to your self and
Coworkers, I remain, with prayers for "Zion's" triumph,
My dear Brother: With pleasure I hand you herewith our financial
report for the past three months. You see we are able to keep our
head above water, and we have a very nice office to invite our
strangers in to see us, such as news paper reporters ect. Indeed
I am happy to say we have a very comfortable conference house.
I am prepared to receive our brethern as they come to
their fields of labor. We have about 120 Elders in this field and
it seems as though we could use that many more to a good advantage
Wehave only baptized upwards of 100 people since my time here, but
I think that is fairly good when we consider that nearly all of
our Elders are new in the field. Our Neophites, what we have are
good inteligent people, and we are educating them how to pay
tithing and live their religion.
I have been all through the field twice and have organizd
Eleven Conferences. Our Elders are full of faith and determined
to do their duty. Part of them travel without money. Recently
while I was at Boston holding conference I met an old member of
our Church who was Baptized by Prest. Young and he has not seen
one of our Elders before for 45 Yrs. With love to your self and
Coworkers, I remain, with prayers for "Zion's" triumph,
"Letter from Alonzo Pratt Kesler, 15 December 1897," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed September 8, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/lEoM