Palawai Lanai S. Islands [Society] April 17th 1856 Brother Woodruff Dear Sir, Your letter of Dec. 25th /55 I received the 30th of last month, and was both pleased and interested by the same, a letter from the mountain home of the Saints is hi always highly prized and duly appreciated by us who are obliged to labor for a season on foreign lands. We do not find much to cheer us—aside from preforming our duty except what comes from Utah, for in Utah is all we hold dear on earth; her associations are ...

but we have been triming up a little—cutting off some of the dry branches—& clearing away some of the rubbish which is only calculated to cumber the ground. Some who had been baptised we were unable to get any clue to whatever. They are so unsettled in their habits & are so continualy on the move from one Island to another that it is very difficult to keep track of them For the last few months there has been but little interest manifested on these lands in regard to mormonism yet at places we have succeeded in awakening some interest ...