Some few days ago several emigrants arrived here from Miss[i]ssippi who speak in the highest terms of the Latter day Saints. Their report has greatly increased the enquiry and excitement previously going the rounds in this quarter— I hear a number speak of visiting — some of taking their families with them and so rema[i]n their;—

But it is their general wish of a great many in here in Union County, for you to send a Minister here amediately to instruct us and lead us more fully into the light of this wonderful and new revealed religion, and direct us into the true road to salvation:—

This is the only subject on which my thoughts dwell both day and night, for, indeed during my waking hours nothing diverts my meditation from this absorbing topic, and while asleep I dream of nothing else—

If you please, be so good as to send a laborer amoung us amediately, for indeed the harvest is great and the laborers but few or none at all:—

I have not the least doubt but that a Latter Day Saint would succeed here as well as the most sanguine could promise himself [p. [2]]