intelligent Industrious & Wealthy of
all the tribes of the Western World They are
also numerouslive in good Houses, has farms women use cookingstoves & sewing Machines
They have never been visited by our Missionaries
But Brother Tenney is very anxious to visit
them, and open friendly Relations with them
and I Received an Invitation from Jesse N Smith to accompany him and I feel
Exceedingly anxious to do so. In fact I have
of late had a very strong Missionary spirit
Resting upon me esspecially to go to the Laman-
ites for I feel that the Lord is at work with
them, and It seems as though I had providen-
tially fallen in company with ^a great many of^ the Navajoe— Moque & ApacheChiefs and I have felt
inspired to preach to them. And as I now
have an oppertunity of visiting the Zunis
and Istatus tribes with good Interpetors
I feel that I cannot spend my time to
any better Advantage. Brother Tenney
is at Savoia will come to Round Valley for
me. We have a few men that have the name
of Mormon, who came to Arizona ^without^ witht
Recommends and dont want any, did not
come to serve God or build up Zion, but
to serve themselfves, they would have been
better to have staid at home some of them
have gone back and it would be well if
others would go but they are not many
the people as a general thing are trying to
live their Religion I think Broth Jesse
N. Smith is doing very will, has many good
Saints to preside over. Br Wm J. Flake is a doing a great Deal for Zion &
the poor. I think He has fed tons of
flour to the ArkansasSaints, and others
who are Destitute and He has bought
from $15000 to $20000dollarsworth of Ranches
in Arizona for the Saints to Settle on
I have been almost afraid He would
swamp himself in the operation. But
I feel as though I had said about Enough
about affairs in Arizona for the present
We have had some Rains in the country
Enough to put out the fires that have
intelligent Industrious & Wealthy of
all the tribes of the Western World They are
also numerouslive in good Houses, has farms women illegible cookingstoves & sewing Machines
They have never been visited by our Missionaries
but Brother Tenney is very anxious to visit
them, and open friendly relations with them
and I Received an Invitation from Jesse
N Smith to accompany him and I feel
Exceedingly anxious to do so. In fact I have
of late had a very strong missionary spirit
resting upon me especially to go to the Lamanites for I feel that the Lord is at work with
them, and It seems as though I had providentially fallen in Company with 11 great many of the Navajoe—
Moque & ApacheChiefs and I have felt
inspired to preach to them. And as I now
have an oppertunity of visiting the Zunis
and Istatus tribes with good Interpetors
I feel that I cannot spend my time to
any better Advantage. Brother Tenney
is at Savoia will come to Round Valley for
me. We have a few men that have the name
of Mormon, who came to Arizona without
Recommends and dont want any, did not
come to serve God or build up Zion but
to serve themselves, they would have been
better to have staid at home some of them
have gone back and it would be well if
others would go but they are not many
the people as a general thing are trying to
live their Religion I think Broth Jesse
N. Smith is doing very well, has many good
Saints to preside over. Br Wm J.
Flake is a doing a great Deal for Zion &
the poor. I think He has fed tons of
flour to the ArkansasSaints and others
who are Destitute and He has bought
from $1500o to $20000 dollars worth of Ranches
in Arizona for the Saints to settle on
I have been almost afraid He would
swamp himself in the operation. But
I feel as though I had said about enough
about affairs in Arizona for the present
We have had some rains in the Country
Enough to put out the fires that have
"Letter to John Taylor and Council, 11 August 1879," p. 6, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 28, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Q0Zl