Believing a concert of action in all things in this Church to be highly important, we deem it necessary under existing circumstances to make you acquainted with our views and feelings, temporal and spiritual prospects as they now exist. We wrote you last fall a full and complete description of this country as high as the falls on Black River without exageration giving a slight description of the . With the exception of several renegadoes and false brethren, things passed smoothly on untill some time in the month of January when we were visited by three different tribes of Lamanites upon the most friendly terms, receiving us as their councillors both temporal and spiritual. The [p. [10]]