Yours of June 7, to notify me of a call to the Sandwich Islands
mission is at hand. I am glad to
be counted worthy of a mission
of this kind and would gladly
accept the call if circumstances
were such that I could reasonably
do so and will now at all hazards
if it is your counsel to go as
soon as I can earn the means
to pay my passage to my field of
labor, but am satisfied had you
known my circumstances the call
at present would not have been
made. When I was thirteen years
of age my Father died leaving
my mother with six children
younger than myself one born the
day after his buriel one brother older
than myself less than fifteen y[ea]rs of
age and an older sister makeing a
family of ten. She was left with
a small but comfortable house and
some property besides the greater portion
Yours of June 7, to notify
me of a call to the Sandwich Islands
mission is at hand. I am glad to
be counted worthy of a mission
of this kind and would gladly
accept the call if circumstances
were such that I could reasonably
do so and will now at all hazards
if it is your counsel to go as
soon as I can earn the means
to pay my passage to my field of
labor, but am satisfied had you
known my circumstances the call
at present would not have been
made. When I was thirteen years
of age my Father died leaving
my mother with six children
younger than myself one born the
day after his buriel one brother older
than myself less than fifteen years of
age and an older sister makeing a
family of ten. She was left with
a small but comfortable house and
some property besides the greater portion