Letter from Elias Nielsen, 1 April 1897
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Logan, Utah, April the 1st, 1897.
Pres. Wilford Woodruff and Missionary Committe:
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brethren:
I received a notice from you some
years ago asking me to prepare and get ready
to leave (on a mission to Scandinavia) the 20th
of Feb. 1892 not having the mean[s] and not know-
ing where to obtain it, I asked for an extention of
time which were granted me (untill fall of 1893)
thinking that I would be able to secure enough
means in that time. I went of[f] to work but
had only worked 2 week when I was taken very
sick and had to be sent home in that
condition, it took the best part of the summer
before I got well. It seem[s] as though that everything
that I have put my hands to do, I have made
a complete failure of it, or itn other words there
has been no blessing in anything that I have
done, and I find myself poorer than ever.
However the Lord has been with me in
(over)
