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.