Chapter LXI

Attend Meetings with the First Presidency and Apostles--More Missionaries called to Arizona--Many Inquiries Regarding the Mission--Outline the Route--Preparations for Travel--Start South--Aided by Contributions--Reach Moencoppy--Meet Lot Smith and Company--Baptisms--Start for the Little Colorado River--Guide Missionary Companies to the Place we had Selected for Settlement--Lot Smith Refuses to Acknowledge my Appointment from President Young as President of the Mission--He Assumes Leadership of the new Settlement--I Return with my Party to Moencoppy--Other Companies of Missionary Settlers sustain my Presidency--My Health is Poor--Settlers Discouraged--Cheer them up--Work of Frontier Life--Succor a Company whose Water Supply is Exhausted--Taking up Land--Make a Long Exploring Trip--Introduce Book of Mormon to Navajos--Return to Moencoppy--Indians Dissatisfied--Go to Salt Lake City with a Delegation of Navajo Chiefs--Their Supposed Grievances Settled--Tell President Young I have come Home to Stay--He Sends me out Again--Directed to Procure Volunteers--Letter of Instructions--Lecture, and take up Contributions--Return Home--My Family Ill--Provide Supplies for Them--Conditions Improve.

CHAPTER LXII.

Again in Arizona--Settling Difficulties Among the People--Our Reservoir Bursts--News of Notable Events--Prepare to Repel an Indian Raid--Indians Quarrel, and the Trouble Passes Over--Funeral at Moencoppy--Exploring Trip to the Southeast--A White Indian Child--Meet the Head Chief of the Navajos--His Address, and Proposition to Accompany me to Salt Lake City--Agree on a Date for the Journey--Continue my Trip Over into New Mexico, then Return to Moencoppy--Accusation Against me Disproved--Indians Gather to go to Salt Lake City--Make the Trip--At President Young's Deathbed--Visit the Indians--Honorable Release from my Mission--Resume Home Missionary Labors--In Prison for Conscience Sake.

CHAPTER LXIII.

Visited by President Joseph F. Smith--Called on Another Mission to the Society Islands--Prepare To Respond--A Blessing by Apostle Lorenzo Snow--Appointed to Preside over the Society Islands Mission--Attempts to Discourage me from Undertaking the Journey--Surprise Party by my Children--Farewell Reception In the Ward Hall--Start on my Mission, Accompanied by my Son and Others who had been Called--Voyage to Tahiti--Madman on Board the Vessel--At Marquesas Islands Strange Characters--Tattooed White Man--His Peculiar Career--Catching Sharks --Arrive at Papeete--My Reception There--Meet Native Josephite Preachers, who seem Confused--Elders from Utah Greet us--in Poor Health.