My First Mission

Consolation Drawn from the Book of Mormon--Its Translation into the Hawaiian Language--Great Joy in the Labor--A Committee to Raise Funds to Purchase a Press, Type, etc.--Press,...

I Return to Maui--We Are Visited by the President of the Mission, Who Determines to Go to the Marqueses Islands--Are Not Led to Go With Him--"Poi," Its Preparation and Peculiari...

At the Fall Conference, 1852, held at Salt Lake City, nine Elders were appointed on missions to the islands. They reached Honolulu in the month of February, 1853. Their names we...

Answers to Prayer, and the Bestowal of the Gifts upon the Elders and People--Elders Sent to Teach Not to Be Taught--Blessings Will Rest Upon Those Who Labor Among the Red Men fo...

Not satisfied with bringing religious influences to bear against us, the missionaries (of whom mention was made in the last chapter) stirred up the owners of the land and the of...

A little more than three weeks had passed when our money was paid out except a very little. Much as we disliked the idea, it seemed necessary for us to separate and seek places...

Lahaina is the principal town on Maui. It has no harbor, but vessels anchor in what is called the roadstead. Looking from the sea at the town, it is not very imposing. It lies o...

Honolulu is built on an extensive flat, of great fertility. The town is pretty, and wears a tropical look; but, since the time of which I write, its buildings and surroundings h...

In early days in California everything was valued at a high price. There were ten of us, Elders, who wanted to get passage from San Francisco to Honolulu, the principal town on...

A new native house having been completed by Mr. Napela's men, it was offered to me as a meeting house. On Sunday the neighbors collected together, and we had two meetings, one i...

The writer will probably never forget his first attempts at speaking in public. While yet a youth he was ordained one of the Seventy Elders. The quorum of which he became a memb...

It was during a very wet season that I told the people I was going around the island. They thought it a great undertaking, and tried to persuade me not to go. I evidently had th...

On the Monday morning I returned to Lahaina, and received a warm welcome from the brethren. They were much interested in the recital of the incidents of my trip. From that time,...

Kula, the district where I had gone to live, was visited about once in three months by the Presbyterian missionary who had it in charge. The Sunday after my arrival there was hi...

While at Keanae, we were gladdened with the news of the arrival of missionaries from Utah; and, after the conference, Brother Keeler and I repaired to Lahaina to meet them. They...

An account of a Hawaiian feast may be interesting to my readers and I will describe this one. The vegetable portion of the feast consisted of _poi_. This I have before described...

Elder James Keeler, one of the five, failed to reach Honolulu in time to sail on the vessel on which we had engaged our passages. This was a great disappointment to us.

The time had arrived for the five Elders, who had remained out of the first ten who were sent to the islands--to return home. It had been a matter of some thought how we would b...

Consolation Drawn from the Book of Mormon--Its Translation into the Hawaiian Language--Great Joy in the Labor--A Committee to Raise Funds to Purchase a Press, Type, etc.--Press,...

Answers to Prayer, and the Bestowal of the Gifts upon the Elders and People--Elders Sent to Teach Not to Be Taught--Blessings Will Rest Upon Those Who Labor Among the Red Men fo...

I Return to Maui--We Are Visited by the President of the Mission, Who Determines to Go to the Marqueses Islands--Are Not Led to Go With Him--"Poi," Its Preparation and Peculiari...