Your Letter dated January 21st 1896
has duly been received on the 22nd
informing me that my Name has
been suggested and accepted as a
Missionary to Scandinavia.
And that You would be Pleased
to have me start from Salt Lake City
on February 29th 1896.
I whis to beg axcuse me for
not answer earliyer, the reason
is that I did not Know if
I could get the means to take
my to that Mission.
In answar I wil now say
that arrangement has been made
by the 98 Qourum of Seventies
and the Bishopric of the Lynne Ward
to asist me to get started.
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As to my feeling whit regard
to this call I wel say that
I feel it a great Honer and
alsa a great Responsebultety to
be called as a Servent of God
to fell this Mission, and I wil
try to the best of my abelaty to
Honer God and his Preisthood
and my calling to Preach the
Gosple of Salvation to the
Faar the Humble and the
Hanest in Hearth.
I wel now make arrangement
to be in the Historian's Office
on the 28th of this Month to be
set apart and ready to start
from Salt Lake City on the
following Day.