I received your Notification
On the 29th of July concirning
a mission to Scandinavia
You wished me to state my
feelings. I do so with plasure
I am willing to fill the
mission to the best of my
abilaty. I never yet have tryed
to shirk enny Call or Duty
placeed upon me by those
having authority to do so, nor
would I dare to do so now
but I am sory to say that
my sircomestances in Life has
bin so that I have not bin able
to make anny preperations for
a missions. I have never bin
Blessed with enny thing more
than Just nesasary wants
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I have bin blessed with a good
Onest and faithfull Wife and
Children thank God, witch
is more to me than riches. I
have had a fammily of nine
Children eight Boys and one ^one^ girl. I have Berred too Boys
next to the Oldest I have seven
left the youngest 5 months old
I have know ^no^ income of enny
kind except a small farm
and some time I rase my
Bre^a^d stuff to do me for one
year and very often I do not.
it all depends on the water. this
year I have a good crop
I have a good House and home
for wich I am very thankfull
I am willing to part with
some of what the Lord has
Blessed me with if it nesary^e^ry
to help me to my field of labor
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I am a little in dept
But I hope to be able to
fix it all rite by then
this is about my sircomsstances
and feellings. I was Born
in Senglöse Danmark
Shalland the 30th of Jan 1847.
there may be something that you
may wish to know of me
if so inquire of my Bishop
Prest Woodruff Dear Brother,
Brother Hanson is one of our head
Teachers of the Ward, & a faithfull
Teacher in the Sunday School, in fact
he is a good Man & is doing a good
Work home, & to send him away leaving
so many small children & a sickley wife without the care of a father
seems to me almost Cruel. But if you
wish him to go he will do so, & if you
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feel to Excuse him, Please
send him a letter to that Effict as
he is very sensitive on such points
We do not desire him to go
on a mission, unless he can
do so without leaving his
family destitute, or to suffer
loss and hardships in his
absence, and would rather
he remain at home until his
circumstances would Jus-
tify him in taking a mission.
but if the ward could look
after his family a little, and
see that they did not suffer
he would have nothing to fear
in going now, or soon. J. F. S.