My First Mission

Courage in Defending the Truth Al

Sunday after my arrival there was his day to make his quarterly visit, and I went down to the village where he was to hold his meeting. His

eting, and he took for his text the 8th verse of t

h any other gospel unto you than that which we

, warning the natives about us; but the sermon was the poorest and most chi

well, and see what its nature and requirements were, and also for each to learn wheth

med so astonished that he could not speak. But when he saw that I had the attention of the people and they were listening to what I said, he aroused himself, opened a catechism which he called Aio ka la, or "Food of the day," and comm

on that I intended to hold meetings, and would have opportunities of mo

me, nor to salute me; if they did, the

a suitable repl

people, speaking in their meeting houses as I could get opportunity,

doctrines of the Bible, and that I was not afraid to meet the preachers; the mora

d the fear of telling that portion of the truth which he is sent to declare, are feelings that no Elder should ever indulge in. The man who suffers th

e pinched for food, was of excellent service to me during the days of which I write. I sh

u that potatoes grew spontaneously there; but the country was too warm for them; this, together with the lack of cultivation, made them very poor. The potato when good was not a vegetable I liked very

t this article they were out of just then. The only thing eatable besides the potato

rom there ("kalo" did not grow at that time at the part of the Kula where I was), and packed in the leaves of a shrub called ki; when thus packed it was called pai

this "poi" the sweetest food I had ever tasted. Some people eat maggoty cheese because they li

. What I had to eat was a matter of indifference to me. I was happy, and I rejoiced as I never had before. Dr

hich the servants and Saints of God can have that is not of earth, and that is not in the l